Charles Goodier of Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted on May 14, 1861, and mustered into service on June 20, 1861, as a private in Company I, 2nd Kansas Infantry, at Lawrence, Kansas, for a period of three months. Goodier and the 2nd Kansas fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, then mustered ...
Solomon Goodrich enlisted as a corporal in Company K, 1st Iowa Cavalry on June 13, 1861; he transferred to Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on October 1, 1861, was promoted to first sergeant on January 13, 1862, and to second lieutenant on October 18, 1862. Bissell’s Engineers contributed to Union battlefield victories early in the ...
James C. Gorham, born in Callaway County, Missouri in 1834, organized a Missouri State Guard artillery battery in November 1861 and served with the unit at the Battle of Pea Ridge the following March. After the Confederate defeat at Pea Ridge, Gorham accompanied the rest of the Army of the West across the Mississippi ...
Group photograph of Union veterans at a Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) encampment; while the photograph is undated, it is believed to have been taken at the reunion of Union and Confederate veterans held at Wilson’s Creek in August 1897. Veterans of the Civil War held regular reunions and encampments after the war, sometimes on ...
Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822; he attended West Point and graduated in 1843, fought in the Mexican-American War, resigned from the army in 1854 and moved to St. Louis. When the Civil War started, Grant returned to the army, and in June 1861 was commissioned colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry. He ...
Conrad Grassmeck enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Missouri Infantry, on August 9, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri. The 15th Missouri was organized in St. Louis in August and September 1861, and saw considerable action during the war, including the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Spring Hill, ...
Martin E. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on June 3, 1815. In 1836, he traveled by wagon and boat with his new bride to Lewis County, Missouri, where he established a steam sawmill with his brothers. When the Civil War began in 1861, Green organized a cavalry regiment in northeastern Missouri to join ...
Theodore Greenawalt was born on December 11, 1820, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; he worked as a clerk for various businesses. While working as the manager of a transfer business, Greenawalt assisted in conveying President-elect Abraham Lincoln secretly from his hotel to a train to take him to Washington. With the start of the Civil War, Greenawalt ...
Mexican-American War veteran James Gregg was elected captain of Company C, 23rd Iowa Infantry, on July 24, 1862, and was mustered into the company on September 19, 1862; he resigned on November 25, 1862. Gregg enlisted and was mustered into the 1st Iowa Light Artillery on December 26, 1863; during his term of service, the battery ...
John Grigsby (center) was mustered in as captain of Company I, 48th Missouri Infantry, on November 7, 1864, at Rolla, Missouri for the period of one year. He was mustered out of service on June 29, 1865, at Benton Barracks (St. Louis), Missouri. The 48th Missouri Infantry was organized at Waynesville, Missouri, ...
William Groves enlisted as a private in a cavalry company attached to the 18th Missouri Infantry on August 25, 1861, at Compton’s Ferry, Missouri; he mustered into service on November 14, 1861. His company subsequently became Company L, 7th Missouri Cavalry. Groves was appointed sergeant on November 1, 1862 and promoted to second lieutenant on ...
Francis Gulde enlisted on August 13, 1861, as a first lieutenant and was mustered into Company D, 17th Missouri Infantry on September 20, 1861, at the St. Louis Arsenal. Gulde was promoted to captain on May 1, 1862 and transferred to Company F. During Gulde’s service, the 17th Missouri Infantry fought in the battles of ...
Post-Civil War photograph of Samuel H. Gunter, Company I, 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Gunter, a native of the Cherokee Nation, enlisted in the Cherokee Nation as a second lieutenant in Stand Watie’s Regiment on July 2, 1861. An inscription on the back of the photograph reads, “Capt. Sam Gunter, noted Cherokee Bushwhacker.” Watie ...
Robert Hale enlisted as a private in Company D, 8th Kansas Infantry, on October 18, 1861, at Sabetha, Kansas; he was promoted to sergeant on November 9, 1861, and to first sergeant on May 1, 1863. Hale and Company D served at Fort Kearney, Nebraska, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, until they joined the rest of the ...
