Harrison Gleim enlisted in Company G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry on January 8, 1862, as a private; on January 21, 1862, he was detached and assigned as a clerk to General Schuyler Hamilton. On March 12, 1862, Gleim was promoted to first lieutenant of Company C, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery, and was detached on October ...
The Glenn House was a hotel located in Paris, Monroe County, Missouri; it was the site of many social functions and where the first Missouri State Guard unit from the area was organized in 1861. In September 1861, members of the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry entered the town and took possession of the Glenn ...
August Gloeser enlisted as a private in Company H, 1st Northeast Missouri Home Guard Infantry on July 15, 1861, and was promoted to first sergeant that October. In February 1862 the 1st and 2nd Northeast Missouri Regiments were consolidated to form the 21st Missouri Infantry, and Gloeser became a member of the new regiment’s ...
John T. Goodbrake enlisted in Company B, 1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry, at Gallatin, Missouri, on February 5, 1862. In the fall of 1861, Missouri Governor Hamilton Gamble proposed that a militia force be raised within the state to cooperate with regular U.S. troops, but not be ordered out of the state, “except for the immediate ...
Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30535
Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30536
Charles Goodier of Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted on May 14, 1861, and mustered into service on June 20, 1861, as a private in Company I, 2nd Kansas Infantry, at Lawrence, Kansas, for a period of three months. Goodier and the 2nd Kansas fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, then mustered ...
Solomon Goodrich enlisted as a corporal in Company K, 1st Iowa Cavalry on June 13, 1861; he transferred to Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on October 1, 1861, was promoted to first sergeant on January 13, 1862, and to second lieutenant on October 18, 1862. Bissell’s Engineers contributed to Union battlefield victories early in the ...
James C. Gorham, born in Callaway County, Missouri in 1834, organized a Missouri State Guard artillery battery in November 1861 and served with the unit at the Battle of Pea Ridge the following March. After the Confederate defeat at Pea Ridge, Gorham accompanied the rest of the Army of the West across the Mississippi ...
Group photograph of Union veterans at a Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) encampment; while the photograph is undated, it is believed to have been taken at the reunion of Union and Confederate veterans held at Wilson’s Creek in August 1897. Veterans of the Civil War held regular reunions and encampments after the war, sometimes on ...
Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822; he attended West Point and graduated in 1843, fought in the Mexican-American War, resigned from the army in 1854 and moved to St. Louis. When the Civil War started, Grant returned to the army, and in June 1861 was commissioned colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry. He ...
Conrad Grassmeck enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Missouri Infantry, on August 9, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri. The 15th Missouri was organized in St. Louis in August and September 1861, and saw considerable action during the war, including the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Spring Hill, ...
Martin E. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on June 3, 1815. In 1836, he traveled by wagon and boat with his new bride to Lewis County, Missouri, where he established a steam sawmill with his brothers. When the Civil War began in 1861, Green organized a cavalry regiment in northeastern Missouri to join ...
Theodore Greenawalt was born on December 11, 1820, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; he worked as a clerk for various businesses. While working as the manager of a transfer business, Greenawalt assisted in conveying President-elect Abraham Lincoln secretly from his hotel to a train to take him to Washington. With the start of the Civil War, Greenawalt ...
