Born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1828, Sempronius “Pony” Boyd moved to Greene County, Missouri, in 1840. He moved to California in 1849, prospected for gold and taught school, but returned to Springfield, Missouri in 1854, where he served as clerk of the Probate and Common Pleas Court of Greene County. In 1856, Boyd ...
John T. Brady (also listed as Bradey) enlisted as a private in the 15th Iowa on January 20, 1862, at Keokuk, Iowa; he was severely wounded in the right side at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, on October 3, 1862. Brady re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on January 21, 1864, and was promoted to ...
Antoine Brentano and his brother William enlisted on September 1, 1862, and were mustered into Company B, 13th Kansas Infantry on September 20, 1862. Antoine was mustered in as a corporal, with William as a private. Antoine was promoted to sergeant on December 1, 1862, to first sergeant on April 18, 1863, and ...
George W. Brewer was born in the “old” Cherokee Nation, east of the Mississippi, and relocated to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Brewer served as a captain in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, under the command of Colonel William P. Adair. Brewer and the regiment fought at the Battle of Honey ...
Benjamin Brown was born May 28, 1826, in Frankfort, Kentucky. As an adult, he moved to Missouri, where he joined his cousin, Francis P. Blair Jr., and Senator Thomas Hart Benton in the struggle against the pro-slavery faction for control of the Missouri Democratic Party. Elected to the Missouri House, he served from ...
Egbert B. Brown was born in Brownsville, New York, on October 4, 1816. In 1852 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he engaged in the railroad business. In August 1861 he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 7th Missouri Infantry, but resigned the following May to accept an appointment as a brigadier ...
George Brown, a native of Indiana, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1855, and was promoted through the ranks to lieutenant commander on July 16, 1862; he was assigned to command the gunboat USS Indianola. On February 24, 1863, near Palmyra Island on the Mississippi River, the Indianola was attacked and sunk ...
In September 1862, S. Clay Brown of Hagerstown, Indiana was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 8th Indiana Infantry. The 8th Indiana spent the period from October 1862 to March 1863 in southeast Missouri, and then joined General Ulysses S. Grant’s army for the Vicksburg Campaign. Brown was promoted to surgeon of the 18th ...
Lucius Burdick enlisted as a private in Company E, 11th Kansas Volunteers, at Emporia, Kansas, on August 25, 1862, and was mustered into service on September 12, 1862. He was promoted to second lieutenant on January 19, 1864, at Benton Barracks, Missouri, and assigned to Company H, 65th U. S. Colored Infantry. Burdick ...
Lysander Butler served as a musician in the 7th Ohio Infantry from May through October 1861. Leaving the 7th Ohio, he joined the 3rd Colorado Infantry (later reorganized as the 2nd Colorado Cavalry) and served in that regiment until January 1864. After being discharged, Butler was commissioned a lieutenant in the 67th U. ...
James Carlin enlisted in the Engineer Regiment of the West at Burlington, Iowa, on September 10, 1861; he was appointed sergeant on October 1, 1861, promoted to second lieutenant on March 29, 1865, and to first lieutenant on June 25, 1865. The Engineer Regiment of the West (also known as Bissell’s Engineers after their commander, Colonel ...
Eugene Carr (on right), a native of New York, graduated from West Point in 1850 and fought Native Americans in Texas. In 1861 he also joined General Lyon’s army, and commanded a cavalry company at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. While in command of a division of General Samuel Curtis’s Army of the ...
This undated cartoon features two foraging Union soldiers mounted on a mule. The officer carries a small box, while his partner carries a large bottle. Such uncaptioned cartoons are relatively rare in Civil War photography. Carte-de-Visite by T.L. Rivers, St. Louis, Mo. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31925
Nathan Carver enlisted on July 14, 1862, and was mustered into Company A, 9th Kansas Cavalry; he was promoted to corporal on September 25, 1864, and assigned to Company C. The 9th Kansas Cavalry fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the remainder of their time the members of the 9th ...
