Michael Croker enlisted as a private in Company C, 2nd Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, “Merrill’s Horse,” on January 8, 1864. Croker and the regiment were involved in General Frederick Steele’s Camden Expedition and the 1864 battles of Little Blue River, Big Blue River, Westport, and Mine Creek during General Sterling Price’s raid through Missouri. Croker was ...
Henry Zarah Curtis was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in October 1836, the son of future Union General Samuel R. Curtis. He migrated to the Nebraska Territory in late 1860 and started the Daily Telegraph, the first daily newspaper in Omaha, which he continued to operate until the summer of 1861. He then sold ...
Samuel Ryan Curtis was born on February 3, 1805, near Champlain, New York, but grew up in central Ohio and attended the U. S. Military Academy, graduating twenty-seventh in a class of thirty-three in 1831. After a year of service, he resigned his commission and returned to Ohio to begin a successful engineering career. During the ...
Carte-de-Visite by A.C. Nichols, Leavenworth, Kan. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31443
Carte-de-Visite by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31507
Photograph of Major General Samuel Curtis and eight members of his staff; Curtis is in the center. The photograph was likely taken in 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri, when General Curtis was commander of the Department of the Missouri. Carte-de-Visite by J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30785-F
Columbus Dale enlisted in Company E, 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in March 1862 and mustered in the following month as a second lieutenant. The 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry, under the command of Colonel George E. Waring Jr., saw action at Pea Ridge, Little Blue River, Byram’s Ford, and Westport. Lieutenant Dale was wounded ...
Eldridge Dawson, from Chicago, Illinois, enlisted as a private in Company E, 7th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861. The regiment was mustered into service on October 28, 1861, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, under the command of Colonel Charles R. Jennison, and became known as “Jennison’s Jayhawkers.” Dawson and the regiment fought at ...
Benjamin Dean mustered into the 26th Missouri Infantry on December 20, 1861, as captain and commander of Company F. On May 28, 1863, he was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the regiment. Prior to joining the 26th Missouri, Dean had been a sergeant in the Franklin County Reserve Corps of the ...
Joseph S. Dean, a native of Kentucky and a merchant in St. Louis, enlisted in Company C, 1st Missouri Infantry (CS) at Memphis, Tennessee, in July 1861 and was soon elected a first lieutenant. In January 1862 he was appointed an acting aide-de-camp to General John S. Bowen in the Army of the Mississippi. ...
William DeGress was born in Prussia and immigrated to the United States from Cologne, Germany, in the mid-1850s. He enlisted in the U. S. Army as a private in 1856, and presumably was mustered out in 1861, although he claimed to have been wounded in the 1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico. He ...
George Washington Deitzler was born on November 30, 1826, in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania; he moved his family to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1855, where he became active in the free-state cause, serving on committees, attending meetings and writing for newspapers. When the Civil War began, Deitzler was appointed colonel of the 1st Kansas Infantry, and was severely ...
In 1857, James Denver was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs and secretary of the Kansas Territory by President James Buchanan; in 1858, he was appointed governor of the Kansas Territory, which included the present state of Colorado. In November 1858, William Larimer Jr., a land speculator from Leavenworth, traveled to Arapaho County and founded ...
Archibald Dobbins was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1827; after marrying in 1850, he moved to Phillips County, Arkansas, where he became a successful planter. In 1862, when Helena, Arkansas, was occupied by Union forces, Dobbins sent his wife and children back to Tennessee and joined the staff of fellow Phillips County resident Major General ...
