Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31928
Fremont, John C.
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Fremont, John C.
Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31625
Fremont, John C.
Carte-de-Visite by George B. Rockwood, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31562
Frost, Daniel M.
Born in New York in 1823, Daniel Marsh Frost graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1844 and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He resigned from the army in 1853 and settled in St. Louis, where he became a manufacturer, and served in the state legislature. Promoted to brigadier general in the ...
Frost, John L. & Benjamin Johnston
John Frost (sitting) enlisted on September 7, 1861, in Company F, 34th Illinois Infantry. He was discharged on March 9, 1864, as a sergeant, and promoted the same day to captain in the 65th U. S. Colored Infantry. The 65th U. S. Colored Infantry was organized from December 1863 and January 1864 at ...
Fullager, Benjamin
Benjamin Fullager enlisted as a private in Company A, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry, on October 21, 1861, at Janesville, Wisconsin, and was mustered in on November 30, 1861. On April 16, 1862, he was promoted to wagoner; on October 20, 1862, he was promoted to quartermaster sergeant. Commissioned a captain on May 1, 1865, ...
Fulton, George W.
The 21st Missouri Infantry was organized from the 1st and 2nd Northeast Missouri Infantry Regiments in February 1862; George Fulton was promoted to captain from the ranks, and assigned as commander of Company E. He was promoted to major on August 3, 1864. The 21st Missouri Infantry fought at Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Pleasant Hill, Tupelo, ...
Gamble, Hamilton
Born in Winchester, Virginia, on November 29, 1798, Hamilton Gamble studied law before moving to St. Louis, Missouri in 1818. He served in various positions, including deputy circuit court clerk, secretary of state and state legislator, and was elected to the Missouri Supreme Court in 1851, where he became presiding judge. He resigned ...
Gamble, Hamilton Jr.
Hamilton Gamble Jr., the son of Missouri Governor Hamilton R. Gamble, was born November 11, 1838, in St. Louis, Missouri. When his father became governor in 1861, young Gamble was appointed a colonel and assigned to the governor’s staff as aide-de-camp and assistant inspector general; he held the same positions in the Missouri State ...
Garland, Hugh A.
Hugh Garland joined the 1st Missouri Infantry as a captain in June 1861; the 1st Missouri Infantry was the first regiment from that state to enter Confederate service. Garland was promoted to major on May 16, 1862. The 1st Missouri Infantry participated in the 1862 battles of Shiloh and Corinth, where they suffered heavy ...
Garrison, James H.
James Harvey Garrison was born on February 2, 1842, in Greene County, Missouri. A farmer in Christian County, Missouri, when the Civil War began, Garrison enlisted as a private in Captain Samson P. Barris’ Company M, Greene County Home Guard Regiment on June 10, 1861, and was mustered out one month later. Garrison joined Company F, ...
Gast, Paulus
Paulus Gast was born in Berlin, Prussia; after immigrating to the United States, he enlisted as a private in Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on September 13, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant on November 26, 1861, and to lieutenant on January 21, 1864. Bissell’s Engineers contributed to Union battlefield victories early ...
Gibbs, George E.
George Gibbs was born in Burke County, North Carolina, in 1838. In 1849 his family moved to Scott County, Missouri. Gibbs served six months in a Missouri State Guard cavalry regiment before joining an artillery unit (likely Captain Winston’s Company, Tennessee Light Artillery at New Madrid, Missouri); following the surrender of Island No. ...
Gilbreath, Henry
Henry Gilbreath, a native of Grant County, Wisconsin and resident of Liberty, Randolph County, Illinois, enlisted as a private in Company K, 5th Illinois Cavalry on September 10, 1861. Gilbreath was mustered into service that November, re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, and was mustered out as a company quartermaster sergeant in October 1865. The ...
