John Porter McCown

John Porter McCown is a Tennessee historical marker in Sevier County.

Sevier Co, TN 71 (US 441), at South city limits of Sevierville

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Born 1/4 mi. SE, Aug. 19 1815. Graduate USMA, 1840. Brevetted captain at Cerro Gordo, Mexican War. Resigned 1861 for the Confederacy; rose to rank of major general. Commanded at New Madrid, Madrid Bend, Island No. 10 and later East Tenn. Dept. Commanded division at Murfreesboro. After war, teacher and surveyor in Sevier Co. Died at Little Rock, Ark., Jan.2, 1879.

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library

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1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1815 · United States of America, southern part / drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1822 · Kentucky (Carey, 1822) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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