Photograph taken on October 20, 1897, of a reunion of the survivors of Company A, 16th Missouri Infantry. The 16th Missouri Infantry was a Confederate regiment organized in August 1862 as the 7th Missouri Infantry; it was redesignated the 16th Missouri Infantry in January 1864. The 16th fought in the battles of Lone ...
On the morning of May 4, 1861, a company of Arkansas State Troops known as the Hempstead Rifles prepared to leave for the Civil War. Standing in front of the Jones Hotel in Washington, Arkansas, the men of Company B were given a flag in a presentation ceremony. That afternoon, accompanied by the ...
David Alexander, age twenty-two, enlisted on June 15, 1861, in Company G, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The next day he was elected a second lieutenant. Shortly afterward, Alexander fatally stabbed one of his enlisted men in an altercation and was cashiered from the army. Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
