Monitor U.S.S. Tecumseh

James Callen was born circa 1837 in Ireland and enlisted on 13 April 1864 at the New York, NY Naval Rendezvous as a seaman for a 2 year enlistment^[1].

Callen was attached to the Tecumseh in April 1864 ^[2]. He was reported lost with her during the Battle of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864 as reported in Navy casualty lists.^{[3], [4]}.

He was approximately 27 years old and had been in the Navy for just under four months.

Interment

U.S.S. Tecumseh, Mobile Bay, Baldwin County, Alabama off Fort Morgan

Dependents

 

Awards & Memorials

 

Alternate Spellings of Name

James Cullan

References and Sources

^[1] Return of the United States Naval Rendezvous, New York, NY for the week ending April 16, 1864

^[2]"List of men transfered to the U.S.S. Tecumseh from the receiving ship North Carolina, April, 1864" Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion: Series I, Volume 21 West Gulf Blockading Squadron from January 1 to December 31, 1864 (1906)

^[3] "Navy Gazette: List of Deaths in the Navy of the United States, reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, during the week ending December 3d, 1864." Army and Navy Journal, 10 Dec. 1864, p. 253.

^[4] Officers and Enlisted Men who Died in the Active Service of the U.S. Navy 1776-1885