A native of Indiana, William Catt was a resident of Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls), Jefferson County, Kansas, when he enlisted in Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry in September 1862. Catt spent the next year and a half guarding the eastern border of Kansas; he was discharged in March 1864 because of disease. Returning ...
Maryland-born St. Louis resident Edward F. Chappell enlisted as first sergeant in Captain James C. Gorham’s Company of Missouri Artillery in Des Arc, Arkansas, on September 1, 1862. He was promoted to second lieutenant and later to first lieutenant. Captain Gorham was replaced by Charles B. Tilden in November 1862. The battery ...
John B. Clark Jr. was born on January 14, 1831, in Fayette, Missouri; he attended the Fayette Academy and Missouri University. He then spent two years in California before traveling east to attend Harvard Law School. Returning to Fayette, he established a law practice. When the Civil War started, Clark joined the Missouri State ...
Charles Clark was born in 1844 in Perry County, Ohio; he enlisted in Company E, 21st Missouri Infantry on September 18, 1862, in Hannibal, Missouri. The 21st Missouri Infantry saw action at Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Pleasant Hill, Tupelo, Nashville, and Fort Blakely. Clark and the 21st Missouri Infantry were mustered out of service on April ...
A son of the famed explorer, Meriwether Clark was born on January 10, 1809, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1826 he received an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy and graduated four years later, ranking twenty-third in a class of forty-two graduates. Clark was assigned to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, where ...
Samuel Churchill Clark, the grandson of famed explorer William Clark and the son of noted designer-architect Meriwether Lewis Clark, was born in St. Louis in 1842. He entered West Point in 1859, but left the academy when the Civil War began and enlisted as a private in the Missouri State Guard. He fought ...
Frances L. Clayton, who dressed like a male, reputedly enlisted with her husband in a Missouri regiment in the fall of 1861. In order to disguise her gender, she took to the manly vices of drinking, smoking, chewing and gambling, and was described as an “accomplished horseman.” She fought alongside her husband at the Battle ...
Carte-de-Visite by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31729
Carte-de-Visite by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library / Rare Books
Carte-de-Visites by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31729 Image Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library / Rare Books
Francis Marion Cockrell was born October 1, 1834, near Warrensburg, Missouri; he graduated from Chapel Hill College in 1853, and became a lawyer in 1855. With the start of the Civil War, Cockrell raised a company for the Missouri State Guard and fought at Carthage and Wilson’s Creek. Early in 1862, he transferred ...
Born in May 1832 near Warrensburg, Missouri, Jeremiah Vardman Cockrell joined the Missouri State Guard when the Civil War began, and served as an officer in the 8th Division at the battles of Carthage, Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. He was commissioned a captain in the 5th Missouri Battalion in early 1862, but retired when ...
Frederick Cole originally enlisted in the 13th Illinois Infantry, but transferred to Company E of Wood’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion to fill a lieutenant’s vacancy. He joined Company K of the 6th Missouri Cavalry on January 1, 1862, when the battalion was merged with the 6th Missouri; he was officially mustered into that unit on ...
William Colvin (on left) was born in Lafayette County, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1840, while his brother John was probably born in 1841. William enlisted as a private in Company G, 59th Ohio Infantry, on October 2, 1861. He was captured at the Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, and interned in Richmond, Virginia. ...
