Albert Kessler enlisted on August 22, 1862, and was mustered into Company G, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 15, 1862, as a private. Kessler was promoted later to first sergeant and assigned to Company K; he was promoted to first lieutenant on February 19, 1865. He was slightly wounded during the Battle of ...
James Lawlor Kiernan was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1837. He graduated from the New York University Academy of Medicine in 1857, and when the Civil War began, served with the 69th New York at the Battle of First Bull Run. After service on General John C. Fremont’s staff, Kiernan was commissioned ...
Edward Killian (Kilian) enlisted on November 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company A, 17th Missouri Infantry on December 1, 1862, as a private. On September 10, 1863, he was promoted to sergeant major and assigned to the regimental non-commissioned staff. The 17th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis by the German-American “Turner” Society ...
David Kimmel enlisted in Company K, 10th Missouri Infantry on September 16, 1861, at Macon City, Missouri. On July 25, 1862, he was assigned duties as a nurse at the hospital in Corinth, Mississippi; left behind to treat the wounded at the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, Kimmel was captured on May 26, 1863. ...
William Kinsman was born in Nova Scotia and immigrated to Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was 28 years old when he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 21, 1862; he was mustered in on September 19, 1862. He was promoted to colonel on December 1, 1862. He commanded the 23rd ...
Samuel Kirkham enlisted on August 23, 1862, and was mustered into Company C, 12th Kansas Infantry as a private on September 26, 1862, at Paola, Kansas. On April 15, 1863, he was promoted to corporal and to second lieutenant on October 30, 1864. The 12th Kansas Infantry was organized in September 1862 at Paola, Kansas; ...
William H. Knickerbocker was mustered in as assistant surgeon of the 2nd Missouri Cavalry on September 1, 1861. The 2nd Missouri Cavalry was organized in the fall of 1861 at Benton Barracks (St. Louis) and placed in immediate service pursuing guerillas in North Missouri; in 1864 they were engaged in battles with General Sterling Price during ...
Henry Knowlton was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 5, 1862, and mustered into Company K, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 11, 1862. On May 4, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant; promoted to captain on January 30, 1865, he was assigned to command Company D. The 33rd Missouri Infantry was engaged in the ...
The steamboat Lady Gay was built in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865 for the Atlantic & Mississippi Steamship Company; she was 286.4 feet long, 43.2 feet wide, and weighed 1,406 tons. She was the second largest in terms of tonnage on the Mississippi River system. Steamboats such as the Lady Gay were used to transport Union ...
Undated photograph of the landing on the White River at DeValls Bluff, Arkansas; first occupied by Union troops and heavily fortified in 1863, it was a major Union supply base in Arkansas. In the background it is possible to see the tents of an army encampment. DeValls Bluff was important to Union efforts to supply ...
James Lane was born on June 22, 1814, on the Ohio River, either in Boone County, Kentucky, or Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He joined the army when the Mexican-American War began, and led troops at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. Lane served ...
Robert Lange was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 3, 1862, and was mustered into Company C, 17th Missouri Infantry on April 11, 1862. He was promoted to first lieutenant on July 1, 1862, and assigned to Company A. The 17th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis by the German-American Turner Society; it was ...
Maine-native Warren Lothrop enlisted in the Regular Army in 1846 and served with the engineers until 1857. Commissioned an artillery lieutenant in 1857, Lothrop became a captain in the 1st Missouri Infantry when the Civil War began. In the fall of 1861 he became major of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, was promoted ...
Warren Lawrence served as colonel of the 2nd Kansas State Militia Regiment from September 19 to November 18, 1863, when he resigned his commission. Lawrence also served as the Kansas Secretary of State from January 12, 1863, through January 9, 1865. He died on August 20, 1906, in Mentor, Ohio. Carte-de-Visite by John Goldin & Co. ...
