Samuel Churchill Clark, the grandson of famed explorer William Clark and the son of noted designer-architect Meriwether Lewis Clark, was born in St. Louis in 1842. He entered West Point in 1859, but left the academy when the Civil War began and enlisted as a private in the Missouri State Guard. He fought ...
Frances L. Clayton, who dressed like a male, reputedly enlisted with her husband in a Missouri regiment in the fall of 1861. In order to disguise her gender, she took to the manly vices of drinking, smoking, chewing and gambling, and was described as an “accomplished horseman.” She fought alongside her husband at the Battle ...
Francis Marion Cockrell was born October 1, 1834, near Warrensburg, Missouri; he graduated from Chapel Hill College in 1853, and became a lawyer in 1855. With the start of the Civil War, Cockrell raised a company for the Missouri State Guard and fought at Carthage and Wilson’s Creek. Early in 1862, he transferred ...
Born in May 1832 near Warrensburg, Missouri, Jeremiah Vardman Cockrell joined the Missouri State Guard when the Civil War began, and served as an officer in the 8th Division at the battles of Carthage, Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. He was commissioned a captain in the 5th Missouri Battalion in early 1862, but retired when ...
Frederick Cole originally enlisted in the 13th Illinois Infantry, but transferred to Company E of Wood’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion to fill a lieutenant’s vacancy. He joined Company K of the 6th Missouri Cavalry on January 1, 1862, when the battalion was merged with the 6th Missouri; he was officially mustered into that unit on ...
William Colvin (on left) was born in Lafayette County, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1840, while his brother John was probably born in 1841. William enlisted as a private in Company G, 59th Ohio Infantry, on October 2, 1861. He was captured at the Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, and interned in Richmond, Virginia. ...
Cornelius Comegys was born in 1834. On March 23, 1863, he enlisted and was mustered into Company B, 19th Iowa Infantry, as a private. On March 23, 1864, he transferred to Company A, 29th Iowa Infantry. The 19th Iowa Infantry fought at Prairie Grove and the siege of Vicksburg; the 29th Iowa ...
In 1867, the Springfield National Cemetery was established because of the critical need for suitable burial space for the remains of men who fell at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek and in other battles and skirmishes in southwest Missouri. In 1870, the Confederate cemetery was established on a four-acre tract adjoining the National Cemetery, but separated ...
Carte-de-visite taken in Mexico, probably in early 1866, showing five former Confederate generals who left the United States following the Civil War. Standing in the rear (left to right) are John Bankhead Magruder and William P. Hardeman. Seated (left to right) are Henry W. Allen, Sterling Price, and Thomas C. Hindman. Eventually ...
George W. Cook of Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls), Kansas, enlisted in Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry (originally the 11th Kansas Infantry) on September 1, 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas in December 1862, and was mustered out of the regiment on September 26, 1865. Strangely, Cook appears to ...
The Civil War was a unique conflict, in that the assets that were considered contraband often included human beings. After the issuance of Lincoln’s preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, many slaves sought self-emancipation by rushing to safety behind Union lines. This drawing captures members of the Corinth Contraband Camp building fortifications at Corinth, ...
Dr. Florence Cornyn was born in August 1829 in Belmont County, Ohio. After graduating from New York University, Cornyn traveled to Sacramento, California, and practiced medicine until 1852; moving to Missouri, he settled in St. Louis. He began the Civil War as a surgeon with the 1st Missouri Infantry (later the 1st Missouri ...
Richard Corwine was born in Mason County, Kentucky, on April 12, 1812. He was admitted to the bar in 1834, and formed a law firm with future president Rutherford B. Hays and Caleb B. Smith, the future Secretary of the Interior under President Lincoln. He was very active in politics and had a ...
Matthew Cowley mustered into Company I, 9th Kansas Cavalry, as a first lieutenant on March 2, 1862, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The 9th Kansas Cavalry was organized on March 27, 1862, at Fort Leavenworth; the regiment fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove, and performed scout and garrison duties. Cowley died of disease on ...
