Isaac Vinson Pratt, a native of Massachusetts and resident of Linn County, Missouri, joined the 18th Missouri Infantry on August 17, 1861, as its lieutenant colonel; at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, he was taken prisoner, but was paroled. Pratt was mustered out of service in December 1862 after winning election ...
Owen Prentice, a printer and native of Shelby County, Illinois, enlisted in Company C, 11th Missouri Infantry on July 20, 1861 at Springfield, Illinois. On May 14, 1863, he was wounded at Jackson, Mississippi; on December 15, 1864, he was wounded again at Nashville. Prentice also participated in the battles of Fredericktown, New ...
Born in Virginia on May 2, 1810, Martha Head married Sterling Price in Randolph County, Missouri, on May 14, 1833; they had seven children, of which five lived to adulthood. During the war she left Missouri and settled in Washington, Texas. In the spring of 1866, Martha joined her husband in Mexico, and ...
Born on July 31, 1837 in Dover, Ohio, William Clarke Quantrill became one of the most famous and controversial guerilla leaders of the Civil War. Moving to Kansas in the 1850s, Quantrill left his former occupation of schoolteacher and began a career stealing livestock and attempting to capture runaway slaves. In December 1860, ...
The first reunion of the men who rode with William Clarke Quantrill was held in September 1898 at Blue Springs, Missouri. They continued to hold annual reunions for thirty-two years, until 1929. The reunions were held in various locations, including Wallace Grove (the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Wallace) in Independence, Mo. This ...
Kentucky native Austin Rawlings mustered into Company L, 1st Missouri Cavalry in 1861, as a corporal; he was promoted to first sergeant and assigned to Company B on May 6, 1862, promoted to second lieutenant on February 16, 1865, and to first lieutenant on April 18, 1865, all with Company B. The 1st Missouri ...
Post-Civil War photograph of Olivia Ray, daughter of John and Roxanna Ray; Olivia was born on May 22, 1855, and was six years old when the Battle of Wilson’s Creek was fought on her family’s farm on August 10, 1861. Olivia and her siblings took refuge in the cellar of their house during the ...
Rhoda Ray was born a slave about 1837; she and her children were owned by John Ray. She was referred to as “Aunt Rhoda” by the Ray family, and she and the children worked on the Ray farm. During the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, on August 10, 1861, Rhoda and her children initially sought shelter ...
David Reed enlisted on August 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company B, 12th Kansas Infantry on September 25, 1862, at Paola, Kansas. The 12th Kansas Infantry fought at Newtonia, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove, participated in the capture of Fort Smith, then performed garrison duty at Fort Smith and Little Rock. Reed mustered out ...
English or Welsh-born Richard Rees, a resident of Oquawka, Illinois, enlisted in Company F, 16th Illinois Infantry on May 24, 1861. On July 28, 1862, then Sergeant Rees was mustered in as first lieutenant of Company B, 21st Missouri Infantry; he was promoted to captain and company commander on February 1, 1865. The 21st Missouri ...
J. P. Renwick was born on November 12, 1838; a native of La Grange, Georgia, he attended and graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort. He enlisted in the 3rd Louisiana Infantry in May 1861 at New Orleans and became the regiment’s sergeant major. The 3rd Louisiana Infantry was part of General Benjamin McCulloch’s ...
Joel Richardson enlisted as a private in Company I, 18th Missouri Infantry on November 14, 1861; he was later promoted to first sergeant in March 1864 and to second lieutenant in July 1864; in June 1865 he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to Company C. He was mustered out on July ...
John Francis Ritter of Pennsylvania graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1856 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry. He served in Utah and New Mexico, and after the start of the Civil War was transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry. He fought at ...
New York native Abel C. Roberts graduated from the University of Michigan medical school in 1853. He moved to Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1859 and became the editor of a Democratic newspaper. When the Civil War began, Roberts served as a contract surgeon in the military hospitals in Keokuk, Iowa. Appointed to ...
