Adolph Willhartitz was enrolled as a second lieutenant in Company E, 6th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia on August 15, 1862, at St. Louis, Missouri; he was promoted to first lieutenant on October 17, 1862. On June 16, 1863, he was ordered into active service, promoted to captain and assigned to the Paymaster Department. ...
James Wills enlisted for three years as a private in Company B, 12th Missouri Cavalry on October 21, 1863, and was mustered in at St. Joseph, Missouri. The regiment operated in Mississippi and Tennessee, and fought at Nashville, then, after the war was over, returned to the other side of the Mississippi to battle ...
Hollis Wilson of Woodford County, Illinois, enlisted in Company E, 108th Illinois Infantry on August 9, 1862; he was mustered into service on August 28, for three years. The regiment helped capture Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post) in January 1863, then participated in the Vicksburg campaign and the battles of Brice’s Cross Roads, Spanish Fort, ...
James Wilson enlisted as a second lieutenant in Company B, 11th Missouri Infantry, in Sangamon County, Illinois, on July 20, 1861. Many of the soldiers in the 11th Missouri were from the state of Illinois. He mustered in at St. Louis on December 31, 1861, and was promoted to first lieutenant on April ...
William Wilson enlisted at Keokuk, Iowa, in Company A, 3rd Iowa Cavalry, on August 31, 1861; the regiment was organized between August 3 and September 13, 1861. The 3rd fought at Pea Ridge, the siege of Vicksburg and in several battles during General Sterling Price’s 1864 raid into Missouri. The 3rd Iowa Cavalry ...
Undated post-Civil War stereoviews (circa 1883) of the Wilson's Creek battlefield. On the morning of August 10, 1861, Gen. Nathaniel Lyon and Col. Franz Sigel attacked Gen. Benjamin McCulloch’s Confederate troops and Gen. Sterling Price’s Missouri State Guardsmen encamped along Wilson Creek. Lyon engaged a small force of Missouri State Guardsmen at 5 a.m., while Sigel ...
Dr. Caleb Winfrey graduated from the Medical Department of St. Louis University in 1847 and settled in Lone Jack, Missouri, where he established his medical practice. In 1861 he enlisted as a surgeon in the Missouri State Guard, and accompanied Colonel Gideon Thompson to Cowskin Prairie. He was present at the battles of ...
Thomas Witt enlisted on February 1, 1862, as a second lieutenant and was assigned to the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery K; on September 26, 1862, he was detailed as the regiment’s quartermaster. He was promoted to first lieutenant on October 22, 1863, and re-assigned to Battery L. The 1st Missouri Light Artillery fought in ...
David Wood was born on August 25, 1851 to Samuel and Margaret Wood, at Mount Gilead, Ohio. In 1854, Samuel moved his family to the Kansas Territory to help the “Free Staters” keep slavery out of the region. In April 1861, Samuel raised a company for the 2nd Kansas Infantry and served as their captain. ...
Gilbert Woodworth, a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted and mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861, as a private; he was promoted to corporal on April 8, 1862. The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized from July 1861 to January 1862 at Leavenworth, Kansas; the regiment fought in the ...
Joseph Birtley Wright, a minister and native of Randolph County, Missouri, was a resident of Pettis County when he enlisted in the Confederate army on January 1, 1862, in Springfield, Missouri. He served as a private in Company G, 5th Missouri Infantry and participated in several actions, then was promoted to chaplain of the ...
Photograph of John Wyland in Masonic vest and apron, probably when he served as the Missouri Grand Lodge as district deputy grand master. Wyland was a member of United Lodge No. 5, Springfield, Missouri; he demitted (resigned from) that lodge on November 15, 1866 and transferred to Perseverance Lodge No. 92 in Louisiana, Missouri. ...
Jerome Yarbrough was born in December 1837 in Giles County, Tennessee. By 1850 he had moved to Greene County, Missouri. When the Civil War began, Yarbrough enlisted in the Greene County Home Guards. Mustered out of that unit, he enlisted on August 19, 1861, at Rolla, Missouri and was mustered into ...
Born in Szatmar, Hungary, in 1826, Charles Zagonyi served as a first lieutenant in the Hungarian army and was captured fighting the Austrians during his nation's failed bid for independence in 1848-49. After the war, Zagonyi fled to Turkey, then England, before finally sailing ...
