John Stevenson was born on June 8, 1821, in Staunton, Virginia; in 1842 he began practicing law in Franklin County, Missouri. He also served in the Missouri legislature and as a captain of Missouri volunteers during the Mexican-American War. When the Civil War began, Stevenson became colonel of the 7th Missouri Infantry, and commanded a brigade ...
Andrew M. Stoddard, from Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted in Company I, 11th Kansas Infantry on September 1, 1862, as a private; his brother Truman H. Stoddard enlisted with him. In April 1863 the 11th Kansas Infantry was reorganized as the 11th Kansas Cavalry. The 11th Kansas Cavalry fought in the 1864 battles of Lexington, ...
George Stone was born in New Hampshire; at the start of the Civil War, he was appointed a lieutenant of the 1st Missouri Infantry, and was promoted to captain on June 10, 1861. After fighting at Wilson’s Creek, the 1st Missouri Infantry was reorganized at St. Louis as the 1st Missouri Light Artillery. ...
George Stratton, a native of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and a resident of Rockford, Illinois, began his Civil War career as a private in the 12th Illinois Cavalry; on November 30, 1863, he enlisted in Company K of the 17th at Rockford, Illinois, and was mustered in as the company’s captain on January 25, 1864, at ...
Samuel D. Sturgis was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1822; after graduating from West Point in 1846, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 2nd U. S. Dragoons. During the Mexican-American War, Sturgis was captured near Buena Vista, Mexico, and held as a prisoner of war for eight days. ...
Lorenzo Sutton of Vermillion, Kansas, enlisted in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry at Atchison, Kansas, on September 2, 1862; he was mustered in as a private on September 20, 1862. The 13th Kansas Infantry immediately went to Newtonia, Missouri, and fought at the Battle of Newtonia on September 29, 1862, and at Prairie Grove ...
Thomas Sweeny was born on December 25, 1820, at Cork, Ireland; he immigrated to the United States in the early 1830s. In 1846, he enlisted as a second lieutenant in the New York Volunteers and fought in the Mexican-American War. Sweeny was severely wounded at the 1847 Battle of Churubusco, requiring the amputation ...
Theodore Switzler began his military career by organizing a company of the Dade County Home Guards and serving as their captain. After participating in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Switzler’s company was combined with others to form the 6th Missouri Cavalry. Switzler was promoted to major on March 9, 1862, and to lieutenant ...
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1842, Charles Taylor moved to Missouri at an early age. When the Civil War began, “Fletch” became an officer in William Clarke Quantrill’s guerrilla band. He participated in the Battle of Independence on August 11, 1862, and was sent by Quantrill to Lawrence, Kansas to scout the area ...
Henry Clay Taylor, a native of Kentucky, moved to St. Louis with his family in 1832. There he was “given superior educational advantages,” including an opportunity to study at St. Louis University. When the Mexican-American War began, Taylor enlisted in Captain Richard Weightman’s artillery battery in Colonel Alexander Doniphan’s Missouri volunteers. After the war, ...
Jonas Tebbetts (right) was born about 1820 in Rochester, New Hampshire, but moved to the Arkansas frontier in 1839. He built a home in Fayetteville in 1853 and became a popular leader in the town. With the start of the Civil War, Tebbetts expressed strong pro-Union sentiments, and in March 1862 was arrested ...
Meriwether (“Jeff”) Thompson, the “Missouri Swamp Fox,” was born on January 22, 1826, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia; he moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1847, and St. Joseph, Missouri, a year later. Thompson served as mayor of St. Joseph from 1857 through 1860; he presided over the ceremony for the inaugural ride of the Pony ...
John Thorp, a native of Ohio and a resident of Iola, Kansas, enlisted in the 3rd Kansas Infantry on July 24, 1861. In early 1862 the 3rd and 4th Kansas Infantry regiments, having failed to complete their organization, were consolidated to form the 10th Kansas Infantry. After the organization of the 10th Kansas, ...
James Totten was born on September 11, 1818, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he attended West Point and graduated in 1841. In the 1850s he was sent to the Kansas Territory to suppress the disturbances there and was stationed at Forts Riley and Leavenworth. In early 1861, then Captain Totten was in command of the Little Rock ...
