Photograph of the headquarters band of General James G. Blunt, believed to have been taken in Paola, Kansas, in the fall of 1864. Following his victory at Honey Springs and his capture of Fort Smith, Major General James G. Blunt returned to his headquarters in Fort Scott, Kansas. On October 4, he received word that Fort ...
Adolphus Boettcher enlisted in Company C, 17th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment at St. Louis, on December 1, 1861. He served as quartermaster until December 12, 1862, when he was promoted to captain and assumed command of the company. The 17th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized in August 1861 by the German-American Turner Society ...
William Boggs enlisted in the U. S. Navy on February 8, 1864, as a carpenter, and was assigned to the USS Pittsburgh, a City Class ironclad gunboat. Pittsburgh was assigned to patrol duties along the Mississippi River until it was decommissioned in November 1865. Boggs was discharged from the navy on February 13, 1865, and ...
Thomas Bolding enlisted in Company G, 24th Arkansas Infantry, on June 19, 1862, at Camden, Union County, Arkansas. He was listed as absent without leave on December 31, 1862. Interestingly, James A. Bolding and George W. Bolding, both from Union County, Arkansas, enlisted in Company G, 24th Arkansas Infantry on June 18 and July 4, ...
Albert Borcherdt joined Company C, 5th Missouri Cavalry, in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 10, 1861. Borcherdt was commissioned a second lieutenant in January 1862, promoted to captain that April, and detached to serve on the staff of Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton, commanding the Third Division of the Army of the Mississippi. ...
Elijah Borland from Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted in Company I, 11th Kansas Infantry in September 1862; the regiment was reorganized in April 1863 as the 11th Kansas Cavalry. The 11th was involved in the 1864 battles against General Sterling Price at Lexington, Little Blue, Independence, Westport, and Mine Creek. Borland was wounded at the ...
Photograph of a bouquet of flowers given to Dana Locke in 1864 as a first gift from Thomas J. Abel; Thomas and Dana were married on May 4, 1865, in Decatur, Illinois. “This bunch of flowers was given with this album-a first gift-to Dana Locke by T. J. Abel in 1864” is inscribed on ...
John Stevens Bowen was one of the finest division commanders in the Confederate Army. Born in October 1829 near Savannah, Georgia, Bowen graduated from West Point in 1853. He served at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and on the Texas frontier before resigning from the army in 1856. After moving to Missouri the following ...
William D. Bowen began the Civil War as the lieutenant colonel of Bowen’s Battalion, Missouri Cavalry. The unit participated in the pursuit of General Sterling Price’s army from Springfield into northwest Arkansas in February 1862. On February 17, Bowen engaged Confederate forces on Sugar Creek in Arkansas, and was wounded in the wrist. ...
Born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1828, Sempronius “Pony” Boyd moved to Greene County, Missouri, in 1840. He moved to California in 1849, prospected for gold and taught school, but returned to Springfield, Missouri in 1854, where he served as clerk of the Probate and Common Pleas Court of Greene County. In 1856, Boyd ...
John T. Brady (also listed as Bradey) enlisted as a private in the 15th Iowa on January 20, 1862, at Keokuk, Iowa; he was severely wounded in the right side at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, on October 3, 1862. Brady re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on January 21, 1864, and was promoted to ...
Antoine Brentano and his brother William enlisted on September 1, 1862, and were mustered into Company B, 13th Kansas Infantry on September 20, 1862. Antoine was mustered in as a corporal, with William as a private. Antoine was promoted to sergeant on December 1, 1862, to first sergeant on April 18, 1863, and ...
George W. Brewer was born in the “old” Cherokee Nation, east of the Mississippi, and relocated to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Brewer served as a captain in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, under the command of Colonel William P. Adair. Brewer and the regiment fought at the Battle of Honey ...
Benjamin Brown was born May 28, 1826, in Frankfort, Kentucky. As an adult, he moved to Missouri, where he joined his cousin, Francis P. Blair Jr., and Senator Thomas Hart Benton in the struggle against the pro-slavery faction for control of the Missouri Democratic Party. Elected to the Missouri House, he served from ...
