One correction, Amelia Stout was his wife’s name. I believe the majority of John B.’s wartime correspondences/papers reside in the archives at Bown University.

Regards,
Todd

Very cool. Thank you very much for the information. It adds to the story.

Eric

Rene, you’re welcome. A lot of the photos that I use here come from the National Archives site, which is where this one came from.

This one–of McIntosh with his missing leg and his crutch in the background–is, I think, an extremely powerful image, which is why I selected it.

Eric

Rene

Rick

Ezra Warner in his “Blue” entry for John states, “….his father, a Regular Army officer later killed in the Mexican War….”

Warner elaborates more in his “Gray” entry for brother James claiming, “He was the son of Colonel James S. Mcintosh, U.S.A., who was mortally wounded at the battle of Molina del Rey in the Mexican War.” (1847)

In their respective photos, John and James look like twins. Same hair line, same chubby jowls and a no nonsense gaze. As I understand it there were a series of forts constructed in the southwest in the late 1840’s– early 1850’s and all were named after fallen Mexican War casualties, including James S. McIntosh Sr.

I’m not at the East Cav castle right now so I can’t check and verify if the marker does indeed elaborate on my assumptions. Besides, LOL!, I remember you correcting me once about a dubious statement regarding the Kilpatrick entry in Warner!

I sure hope the story is true as I’ve been telling people about it for a while now. Ooops?

Stan