Eugene Fisher enlisted with his brother John A. Fisher in Company D, 23rd Missouri Infantry, on August 24, 1861, in Eagleville, Missouri. The 23rd Missouri Infantry was engaged in the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, where Eugene and his brother were both captured and held as prisoners of war. Eugene was ...
Mexican-American War veteran John A. Fisher enlisted as a lieutenant in Company D, 23rd Missouri Infantry, on August 24, 1861, at Eagleville, Missouri. On April 6, 1862, the regiment was engaged in the Battle of Shiloh and Lieutenant Fisher and his brother Eugene B. Fisher were captured and held as prisoners of war. ...
Mary Fisher was the wife of Lieutenant John A. Fisher, Company D, 23rd Missouri Infantry. Lieutenant Fisher was captured at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, and held as a prisoner of war for six months. He was paroled and released in October 1862, discharged for medical reasons in January 1863, ...
Thomas Fletcher was born in Jefferson County, Missouri on January 21, 1827; in 1860, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he supported the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president. With the start of the Civil War, Fletcher was appointed colonel of the 31st Missouri Volunteer Infantry and served with that regiment from ...
James Flynt enlisted on May 2, 1862, in Company D, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, at Trenton, Arkansas. Flynt was killed in action at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee, on December 31, 1862. Carte-de-Visite by J. Gorff & Co., Columbus, Miss. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31556
James Ford was born in Painesville, Ohio, on May 22, 1829; moving to the Colorado Territory, he worked in the coal and iron business. With the start of the Civil War, an independent cavalry company was organized under Captain James Ford’s command. Ford led his company to New Mexico, where they became Company ...
Joseph Ford enlisted as a private in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry, on September 6, 1862. The 13th Kansas was organized on September 10, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas, and fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the unit also preformed provost and garrison duties in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Cherokee ...
This photograph is of a structure identified as Fort No. 1 in Springfield. Comparison of the photograph and the plan of Fort No. 1, however, indicate that this structure was likely not part of the fort. It could have been a powder magazine built inside the fort after the engineering plan was completed, ...
Robert Fraker enlisted on March 1, 1862, and was mustered in as a private in Company K, 6th Missouri Cavalry, at Rolla, Missouri. He was promoted to corporal in May 1862 and first sergeant that November; he was promoted to first lieutenant on February 4, 1864, and transferred to Company E. On October ...
Charles W. Frazer was born on July 21, 1834, in Fayette County, Tennessee; he attended the University of Mississippi and was admitted to the bar in Memphis at the age of nineteen. With the start of the Civil War, Frazer joined the Confederate army on June 14, 1861, and was commissioned the captain ...
Willis Freeman enlisted as a private in Company A, 14th Missouri Cavalry, on October 15, 1861, at Jefferson City, Missouri. On February 4, 1863, the 14th Missouri Cavalry was disbanded and its soldiers transferred to the 4th Missouri Cavalry. The 14th Missouri Cavalry saw action in the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the ...
Born in Savannah, Georgia, John C. Fremont joined the army as a second lieutenant of topographical engineers in 1838. For three years he helped map the area between the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Fremont spent the early 1840s exploring and mapping much of the area between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. In ...
Born in New York in 1823, Daniel Marsh Frost graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1844 and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He resigned from the army in 1853 and settled in St. Louis, where he became a manufacturer, and served in the state legislature. Promoted to brigadier general in the ...
John Frost (sitting) enlisted on September 7, 1861, in Company F, 34th Illinois Infantry. He was discharged on March 9, 1864, as a sergeant, and promoted the same day to captain in the 65th U. S. Colored Infantry. The 65th U. S. Colored Infantry was organized from December 1863 and January 1864 at ...
