William Blair of Oregon, Missouri, enlisted in Company F, 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry on March 18, 1862, at St. Joseph, Missouri. He was mustered in as a private on April 10, 1862; on July 1, 1862, he was promoted to regimental sergeant major. On October 18, 1862, he was promoted to first ...
James Blake enlisted in the 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in January 1862, in Dallas County, Missouri; the 4th MSM was formally organized on April 28, 1862. They assisted in the withdrawal of Union troops from the 1862 Battle of Newtonia, but most of their duties consisted of guarding railroads and conducting anti-guerrilla patrols ...
Thomas Blanchard, a native of Perry County, Indiana, and a millwright by trade, enlisted in the 7th Missouri Cavalry in December 1861 at Macon City for three years. He served as a duty sergeant and company quartermaster sergeant. Re-enlisting in 1864, he transferred to the 1st Missouri Cavalry when the 7th and 1st ...
Stereoview of the August 1883 “Blue & Grey” reunion held in Springfield, Missouri; the reunion hosted Union and Confederate soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek and other Civil War veterans. Several soldier reunions were held in Springfield, although the largest took place in 1883 and 1897. The reunions included trips ...
Born July 21, 1826 in Trenton, Maine, James Blunt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he earned a degree from Starling Medical College in 1849. In 1856, he moved to Greeley, Kansas, and established a medical practice. While in Greeley, Blunt became an ardent abolitionist, aided John Brown in assisting slaves to escape to ...
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. ...
