James A. Anderson was an eighteen-year-old farmer from Morgan County, Illinois, when he enlisted at St. Louis for three years in Company I, 11th Missouri Infantry on March 28, 1864. During his enlistment, the 11th Missouri participated in the Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi on July 14-15, 1864, and pursed Confederate General Sterling Price through ...
William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was born in Kentucky in 1839; he migrated with his family from Missouri to the Council Grove, Kansas area before the war. By the time he turned 21 he was accompanying wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail, selling stolen horses. With the start of the Civil War, Anderson began ...
Stephen H. Andrews had the distinction of serving in two theaters during the Civil War. The Junction City, Kansas resident first enlisted in Company B, 2nd Kansas Infantry as first sergeant on May 14, 1861. After fighting at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, he was mustered out with the ...
William Armor enlisted in the 1st Missouri State Militia Infantry on December 1, 1861, at St. Joseph, Missouri. He mustered into Company A on March 15, 1862, and was appointed second sergeant; he was promoted to first lieutenant on January 9, 1864. The 1st Missouri was assigned to the St. Louis area to ...
Born in the Choctaw Agency, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) on November 22, 1835, Francis "Frank" Crawford Armstrong was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Dragoons in June 1855. Promoted to captain in the spring of 1861, Armstrong led his company of dragoons at the Battle of First Bull Run on July 21, ...
William W. Armstrong, a native of Pennsylvania, joined the 25th Pennsylvania Infantry as a private in May 1861. Mustered out in August 1861, he joined Anderson’s Troop, Pennsylvania Cavalry, an independent cavalry company, on November 30, 1861. The company performed escort and headquarters duty for Generals Don Carlos Buell and William S. Rosecrans, and served ...
Carte-de-Visite by A.D. Lytle, Baton Rouge, La. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 11704
Group photograph of Captain William Armstrong (left) with unknown Union officers. Carte-de-Visite by A.D. Lytle, Baton Rouge, La. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31958
William Elisha Arnold, a native of Shady Grove, Franklin County, Virginia, entered the Virginia Military Academy in July 1849 at the age of nineteen; he graduated on July 4, 1853, and married Susan Meriwether Taliaferro sixteen days later. In 1860, William Arnold was working as a school teacher in Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. When the ...
Barnett Atkeson, a merchant in Johnson County, Missouri, joined the Missouri State Guard and fought at the battles of Carthage and Wilson’s Creek. On December 2, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, 1st Missouri Infantry Battalion (later the 5th Missouri Infantry) in Springfield, Missouri. In January 1862, he was elected second lieutenant, and ...
Leander Baker was mustered into service on April 11, 1862, as surgeon of the 24th Missouri Infantry. The 24th was engaged in many battles, including Pea Ridge, Pleasant Hill, Tupelo, Franklin, and Nashville. The regiment lost a total of 264 men--43 to combat and 221 to disease. Baker was mustered out of service on November 9, ...
David Ballard of Marysville, Kansas, enlisted and was mustered into Company H, 2nd Kansas Cavalry on January 10, 1862, as a private; he was promoted the same day to first lieutenant with the same company. The 2nd Kansas Cavalry was organized on November 8, 1861, at Kansas City, Kansas; the regiment fought at Old Fort Wayne, ...
Captain Alexander Banks (left) served as provost marshal of the Southern District of Kansas in 1863, and in that role negotiated with Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill for the surrender of the Eldridge Hotel during the raid on Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863. Arthur Gunther of Lawrence, Kansas (on right), entered Company D of the ...
Reverend Arthur J. Barton, a native of Pennsylvania, enlisted as the chaplain of the 23rd Iowa Infantry on September 5, 1862. Barton and the regiment were mustered into service two weeks later. The 23rd fought in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Big Black River, and the siege of Vicksburg. Reverend Barton and ...
