William H. Knickerbocker was mustered in as assistant surgeon of the 2nd Missouri Cavalry on September 1, 1861. The 2nd Missouri Cavalry was organized in the fall of 1861 at Benton Barracks (St. Louis) and placed in immediate service pursuing guerillas in North Missouri; in 1864 they were engaged in battles with General Sterling Price during ...
Henry Knowlton was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 5, 1862, and mustered into Company K, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 11, 1862. On May 4, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant; promoted to captain on January 30, 1865, he was assigned to command Company D. The 33rd Missouri Infantry was engaged in the ...
The steamboat Lady Gay was built in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865 for the Atlantic & Mississippi Steamship Company; she was 286.4 feet long, 43.2 feet wide, and weighed 1,406 tons. She was the second largest in terms of tonnage on the Mississippi River system. Steamboats such as the Lady Gay were used to transport Union ...
Undated photograph of the landing on the White River at DeValls Bluff, Arkansas; first occupied by Union troops and heavily fortified in 1863, it was a major Union supply base in Arkansas. In the background it is possible to see the tents of an army encampment. DeValls Bluff was important to Union efforts to supply ...
James Lane was born on June 22, 1814, on the Ohio River, either in Boone County, Kentucky, or Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He joined the army when the Mexican-American War began, and led troops at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. Lane served ...
Robert Lange was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 3, 1862, and was mustered into Company C, 17th Missouri Infantry on April 11, 1862. He was promoted to first lieutenant on July 1, 1862, and assigned to Company A. The 17th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis by the German-American Turner Society; it was ...
Maine-native Warren Lothrop enlisted in the Regular Army in 1846 and served with the engineers until 1857. Commissioned an artillery lieutenant in 1857, Lothrop became a captain in the 1st Missouri Infantry when the Civil War began. In the fall of 1861 he became major of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, was promoted ...
Warren Lawrence served as colonel of the 2nd Kansas State Militia Regiment from September 19 to November 18, 1863, when he resigned his commission. Lawrence also served as the Kansas Secretary of State from January 12, 1863, through January 9, 1865. He died on August 20, 1906, in Mentor, Ohio. Carte-de-Visite by John Goldin & Co. ...
Albert Lee was born on January 16, 1834, in Fulton, New York. He attended Union College in Schenectady, practiced law, then moved to the Kansas Territory in 1858 and settled in Elwood. He became a district judge in 1859 and a justice of the state supreme court in 1861, but resigned when the ...
Hiram Leffingwell was a contract surgeon for the U. S. Medical Department and the surgeon of the 65th U. S. Colored Infantry. The 65th U. S. Colored Infantry was organized from December 1863 to January 1864 as the 2nd Missouri Colored Infantry, at Benton Barracks (St. Louis), Missouri; its designation was changed to the ...
Alexander A. Lesueur, born on November 25, 1842, participated in the “Southwest Expedition” (the Missouri State Militia expedition to the Kansas-Missouri border in the winter of 1860-61). According to the 1881 History of Lafayette County, he enlisted in Captain Joseph M. Kelly’s Washington Blues company of Missouri State Militia on May 8, 1861, and served ...
James “Dick” Liddell was a member of William Clarke Quantrill’s Confederate guerilla band during the Civil War. In this photo, Liddell is wearing a mounted services jacket, most likely taken from a Union soldier. Quantrill and his guerrillas harassed Union soldiers, raided pro-Union towns, and scored several dramatic and devastating victories, such as ...
Decatur County, Indiana native Joseph Linville enlisted as a private in Company E, 21st Missouri Infantry on July 15, 1861; he fought at the battles of Shiloh and Corinth. In early 1862 he contracted measles and lost the hearing in his right ear; he had lost the sight in his left eye several years ...
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, about 1838 and a resident of Muscatine, Iowa in 1861, Newton Long first saw service during the Civil War as a member of the 1st Iowa Infantry. He fought at Wilson’s Creek, was mustered out, then enlisted in Company H, 24th Missouri Infantry on January 25, 1862; he was promoted ...
