Isaac Shepard was born in Natick, Massachusetts on July, 7, 1816, and was educated at Harvard; coming to Missouri, he became a major and assistant adjutant general in the Missouri State Militia, and served as an aide to Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. With the death of Lyon, Shepard ...
One of the most famous generals of the American Civil War, William T. Sherman was born February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio; he received an appointment to West Point at the age of 16. After graduating in 1840 he was commissioned a second lieutenant with the 3rd U. S. Artillery. In 1853, Sherman ...
Henry Shubert, a cooper and native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, enlisted as a sergeant in Linn Creek, Camden County, Missouri, in Company K, 29th Missouri Infantry on August 15, 1862; he was appointed commissary sergeant in July 1863. Shubert served as the commissary sergeant until September 23, 1864, when he was promoted to first ...
The Sibley tent was invented by U.S. Army officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856. The “new and improved conical tent” was twelve feet high and eighteen feet in diameter; Sibley claimed that it could hold 20 men comfortably with “arms and equipments.” It was supported by a central pole and iron tripod ...
Drawing of Union gunboats and mortar boats bombarding Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River during the New Madrid-Island No. 10 Campaign, February 28 – April 8, 1862. Despite Ulysses S. Grant’s success in opening the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in February 1862, the Mississippi still remained closed to Union river traffic. Confederate fortifications blocked ...
These stereo views document the damage to the Confederate fortifications at Port Hudson, Louisiana, following a 48-day siege by Union forces. After a direct Union assault on the fortifications failed on May 27, a formal siege of the Confederate bastion began. On July 9, 1863, Port Hudson surrendered to Union Major General Nathaniel Banks. An ...
Undated photograph of the Signal Corps Quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Fort Leavenworth is located in northeast Kansas, just west of Kansas City; built in 1827, it is the oldest active military installation west of the Missouri River. During the Civil War, Leavenworth was used as a mustering and training area for Kansas ...
Henry Simons of Holton, Kansas, a native of Oswego, New York, enlisted in Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on July 16, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was promoted to second lieutenant on November 11, 1862, and assigned to Company E. The 5th Kansas Cavalry fought in the 1863 battles of Helena and Pine Bluff, and ...
Samuel Simpson was born on December 7, 1830, in St. Louis, Missouri; with the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a first lieutenant and served as adjutant of the 3rd U. S. Reserve Corps, Missouri Infantry. Promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 12th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in April 1862, Simpson resigned ...
Abraham Slingerland enlisted on October 8, 1861, at Carthage, Illinois, and was mustered into the 7th Missouri Cavalry (also known as the Black Hawk Cavalry) on December 31, 1861, as a bugler. On January 1, 1863, he was promoted to second lieutenant and assigned to Company M. Promoted to first lieutenant on October ...
George Smith enlisted as a private in Company F, 1st Iowa Infantry on April 23, 1861, and was mustered into service on May 14, 1861; he mustered out on August 21, 1861, after fighting in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. On September 25, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, 4th Iowa Cavalry as second ...
Giles Smith joined Company D, 8th Missouri Infantry as a captain on June 14, 1861; the regiment was commanded by his brother, Colonel Morgan L. Smith. In the summer of 1862, following the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, Giles Smith was promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel, succeeding his brother as regimental ...
Ira Smith mustered into the 9th Minnesota Infantry on August 19, 1862, as a private; on November 27, 1862, he was transferred to the non-commissioned staff as sergeant-major. The 9th Minnesota Infantry saw service in Minnesota before being assigned to duty as railroad guards in Missouri. On February 15, 1864, Smith was discharged in order ...
John Smith, a native of Washington County, Ohio, and a resident of Crawfordville, Iowa, enlisted as a private in Company I, 25th Iowa Infantry on August 1, 1862; he was mustered into service on August 28, 1862. On January 11, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post), Arkansas. ...
