According to newspapers reports from Aiken, South
Carolina, the oldest surviving four-foot veteran of the war was living there in
1894. Having been sired in Sevierville, Tennessee, Old Jim took a bullet in his
neck somewhere in his native state. Lieutenant McMahon later rode him to the
battle of Atlanta, then to Savannah, and into South Carolina.
When the nine hundred pound horse became rider
less in a skirmish, he wandered to the plantation of W. T Williams. Identified
long afterwards by brands and saddle markings, Old Jim spent his declining
years as a crowd pleaser in parades of Civil War veterans.
