Louis Herring enlisted as a private in Company E, 7th Kansas Cavalry (“Jennison’s Jayhawkers”) on September 16, 1861, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was mustered into the service on October 26, 1861, when the 7th Kansas was organized at Fort Leavenworth. The 7th Kansas was involved in the 1862 battles of Iuka and Corinth, and ...
Born in Pittsburgh in 1837, Herron was a banker in Dubuque, Iowa when the Civil War began. He commanded the “Governor’s Grays” of the 1st Iowa Infantry at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. Promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 9th Iowa Infantry, Herron was wounded and captured at the Battle of Pea Ridge, but was ...
Hester Newton enlisted in Company G, 4th Missouri Cavalry, on March 24, 1862, at St. Joseph, Missouri. He was promoted to fourth sergeant on April 16, 1862 and to first lieutenant on December 19, 1862. Hester and the 4th Missouri Cavalry saw action at the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, and the 1864 battles of ...
Richie Higgins enlisted as a private in Company G, 1st Missouri Cavalry, on August 1, 1861, at Jacksonville, Illinois; he was mustered in on September 6, 1861, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The 1st Missouri Cavalry was organized on July 20, 1861; in addition to scout and patrol duties they saw action at Pea Ridge and in ...
Hiram Hiller, from Clark County, Missouri, joined the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry as a private with his brother John in December 1861. Promoted to adjutant in June 1862, Hiller rose to major by the end of 1862 and to lieutenant colonel in July 1863. The 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry was organized ...
Martin Himes enlisted as a private in Company H, 34th New Jersey Infantry, on November 9, 1863. The 34th served in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana, and fought at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. Himes was discharged on June 1, 1865, for promotion to second lieutenant with the 65th U. S. Colored Infantry, ...
Thomas Carmichael Hindman was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in January 1828. He moved to Mississippi in 1841 and served with the 2nd Mississippi Infantry during the Mexican-American War. Hindman was admitted to the bar following the war and was elected to the Mississippi legislature; he then moved to Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas and ...
Henry Hitchcock enlisted as a private on August 14, 1862, at Winona County, Minnesota, in Company D, 7th Minnesota Infantry. On March 18, 1864, he was discharged for promotion to quartermaster sergeant and assigned to the 67th U. S. Colored Infantry. During Hitchcock’s service with the 7th, the regiment served in campaigns against the Sioux ...
Clark Hockensmith was born February 21, 1843; in 1860 he was living in Jackson County, Missouri. When the Civil War began he became a Confederate guerrilla, first fighting with Charles Harrison; in April 1863 Harrison and a party of officers were ordered to Colorado to recruit Confederate sympathizers. On the way, Harrison and ...
Born in Tennessee on February 22, 1835, William M. Hogsett moved with his family to Texas at the age of 16 and settled in Hopkins County. His father died in 1846 while serving in the Mexican-American War. On May 10, 1862, Hopkins joined Captain S.A. Minter’s Company K, Richard Waterhouse, Jr.’s Regiment of ...
George Holloway was commissioned a first lieutenant and mustered into the 33rd Missouri Infantry on August 7, 1862, as regimental adjutant. On December 22, 1862, he was detached to serve as acting assistant adjutant general of volunteers to General Clinton B. Fisk; on June 2, 1863, he was promoted to captain and received a ...
Horace Hooker was commissioned a first lieutenant in Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on November 7, 1862, and assigned to Company C, he was mustered in on November 12, 1862. In February 1864, Bissell's Regiment and 25th Regiment Missouri Infantry were consolidated to form the 1st Missouri Engineers. The engineers were involved in repairing ...
Alexander Houk enlisted on August 28, 1862, at Washington County, Arkansas, and was mustered in as a corporal in Company L, 1st Arkansas Cavalry on October 2, 1862, at Springfield, Missouri. The 1st Arkansas Cavalry (U.S.) is the best known regiment of “Mountain Feds” to serve in the Ozarks. Recruited among Union refugees ...
Benjamin Housel from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, enlisted as a fifth sergeant in Company D, 4th Iowa Cavalry on September 28, 1861; on January 15, 1862, he was promoted to battalion commissary sergeant. Housel was transferred back to Company D on June 9, 1862; he was discharged on March 14, 1863, for promotion to lieutenant ...
