McCarty, John

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1852
Full name
John McCarty
Birth Date Certainty
Estimated
Death Date Certainty
Estimated
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Military
Confederate Army

John McCarty (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John McCarty was born around 1831 in Allegheny County, Maryland. He prepared at the Dickinson Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania during the 1847-1848 academic school year and then entered the freshman Dickinson College class in the fall of 1848. During his years at the College, McCarty was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity as well as the Union Philosophical Society. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852 and thereafter studied law in Cumberland, Maryland. McCarty relocated to Missouri, where he established a law practice.

At the outbreak of war, McCarty was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army. He was killed in action at the battle at Island No. 10 in 1862.
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “John McCarty,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/m/ed_mccartyJ.htm.
How to Cite This Page: "McCarty, John," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6198.