feds take mckay

October 31, 2006 | TBHC | Leave your thoughts!

145 years ago…

October 31, 1861 – Early in the American Civil War, Captain James McKay’s steamer, the Salvor, is impounded by the Federal Government and he is taken as a prisoner of war.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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