Undated photograph of Main Street in Paris, Monroe County, Missouri. Jackson Township, Monroe County (where Paris is located) contained more than 3,700 people in 1860. The first Confederate unit in the area was organized here in 1861. Union forces briefly occupied the town in July 1862; on October 15, 1864, about 400 Confederates attacked ...
Mosby Monroe Parsons was born on May 21, 1822, in Charlottesville, Virginia. At age 13 his family moved to Cole County, Missouri, and two years later to Jefferson City, Missouri. He left his law practice to volunteer for the Mexican-American War and, as a captain, commanded Company F of Colonel Alexander Doniphan’s Missouri Mounted Volunteers. ...
Stephen Kearney (Kearny) Parsons (named for Mexican War General Stephen Watts Kearney), born in August 1851, was the son of Confederate General Mosby M. Parsons, commander of the 6th Division, Missouri State Guard and later a brigade and division commander in the Confederate army. General Parsons fought in numerous battles, including Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, Pea ...
Card with a drawing in red and blue of a soldier and female with the printed poem, The Girl I Left Behind Me. The card could be inscribed with a personal message by the soldier and given to his wife, mother, sister, or girlfriend when he departed for the war. Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer Image ...
Everett Peabody, a native of Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard University in 1849 at the age of 18. By the time of the Civil War, he was a railroad engineer living in St. Joseph, Missouri. In June 1861 Peabody was commissioned a major in Peabody’s Independent Reserve Corps Infantry; when his battalion was combined with other ...
John Finis Philips was born in Boone County, Missouri, on December 31, 1834. Admitted to the bar in 1857, Philips practiced in Georgetown, Missouri, until the Civil War began. He served as a member of the Missouri Convention in 1861, and was commissioned colonel of the 7th Missouri State Militia Cavalry on May ...
Lebbeus Pindall, born in 1832, moved to Monroe County, Missouri in 1856 and began a law practice in Paris, Missouri. In October 1861, he was elected captain of Company B, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard, and was promoted the following January and became major of the battalion. He also served as ...
Reuben Playford enlisted on May 14, 1861, as a musician in Company D, 2nd Kansas Infantry; he fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, and reportedly was near General Nathaniel Lyon when he was killed. He mustered out of the 2nd Kansas at Leavenworth, Kansas, on October 31, 1861. Playford enlisted ...
Post-Civil War photograph of Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas, which was founded in 1869; the undated photograph appears to be of the town’s main street. It appears that construction is still being done on the “L. A. Count & Bro.” building, based on the ladder and lumber seen next to the building. The photograph ...
Alfred Pleasonton was born in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 1824, and graduated from West Point in 1844. As a dragoon officer, he saw action at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma during the Mexican-American War, and against the Apaches in New Mexico in 1852. By 1861, Pleasonton had ...
Preston Plumb was born in Ohio in 1837; he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1856 to support the Free State movement and was one of the founders of Emporia, Kansas. With the start of the Civil War, Plumb joined the 11th Kansas Infantry as a second lieutenant; in August 1863 the regiment was re-organized ...
John Poll enlisted on April 23, 1861, for three months, as a private in Company E, 1st Missouri Infantry at the St. Louis Arsenal; on June 10, 1861, he was transferred to Company A. The 1st Missouri participated in the capture of Camp Jackson and Jefferson City and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. Poll was ...
Photograph of a 1560 foot pontoon bridge that spanned the Missouri River at St. Charles, Missouri, ca. 1871. During the Civil War, Union engineers built pontoon bridges over waterways to provide crossings for troops or to replace destroyed bridges. The bridges were prebuilt and transported to where needed, then assembled on floating pontoons, which were secured ...
William Porter served as lieutenant colonel of the 50th Enrolled Missouri Militia from November 30, 1863, until he resigned on October 4, 1864. The Enrolled Missouri Militia was a part-time force whose primary duty was garrison and guard duty, although a number of EMM units participated in actions against Confederate guerrillas and regulars. The presence ...
