James Inskeep enlisted in Company H, 25th Missouri Infantry on October 2, 1862, at St. Joseph, Missouri. On February 17, 1864, he was transferred to Company M, 1st Missouri Engineers; he was mustered out of the service on January 22, 1865. The 25th performed duty in southeast and northwest Missouri, operating against guerrillas, performing garrison ...
John Jarrette joined William Clarke Quantrill’s guerrillas in October 1861. He was with Quantrill during the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, and with William Anderson during the massacre at Centralia, Missouri, on September 27, 1864. After the war, Jarrette joined the Jesse James gang, and was a suspect in the ...
Samuel Jellison, a mechanic from Decatur, Illinois, enlisted in Company B, 8th Illinois Infantry when the war began. Mustered out of that unit in July 1861, he enlisted in the 61st Illinois Infantry that December; promoted to quartermaster sergeant and transferred to the regimental staff, he was reduced to private and transferred to Company ...
Benjamin Jennings was appointed a second lieutenant in Company C, 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 7, 1862. On September 19, 1862, the 23rd Iowa was mustered into the federal service and ordered to St. Louis. Jennings was promoted to first lieutenant on January 1, 1863, and to captain and company commander on November 6, 1863. After ...
Stephen Jennings, a native of New York and a resident of Topeka, Kansas, enlisted and was mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry as sergeant on July 16, 1861; he was promoted to regimental sergeant major on September 5, 1861. Jennings was promoted to second lieutenant in Company A on January 1, 1862, and ...
Charles Ransford Jennison was born in New York on June 6, 1834, and moved to Wisconsin in 1846, where he studied medicine. Marrying at the age of 20, Dr. Jennison and his wife moved to Osawatomie, Kansas in 1857, and to Mound City, Kansas, shortly thereafter. Before the start of the Civil War, ...
John Brown’s Fort was a building built in 1848 to be used as a guard and fire engine house for the Harpers Ferry Armory. On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his raiding party barricaded themselves in the building after their ill-fated attempt to seize the armory. The building was attacked the following ...
On September 27, 1864, Confederate guerilla leader William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, leading about 50 well-armed men, removed 23 unarmed Union soldiers from a train at Centralia, Missouri, murdered all but one, then set fire to the train and depot. Around 3:30 P.M., Major A. V. E. Johnson, commanding approximately 125 men of the 39th ...
Benjamin S. Johnson, born in Tennessee in 1836, moved with his widowed mother to Greene County, Missouri, in the early 1850s. Johnson enlisted in Company A, 3rd Missouri Cavalry in Carroll County, Arkansas, on August 1, 1862, as a private. On October 3, 1862, he was elected senior second lieutenant and transferred to Company H ...
John Jones, a native of Iowa and a resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry, on October 31, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was captured on April 25, 1864, at Marks’ Mill, Arkansas, and held as a prisoner of war in Tyler, Texas, until ...
Jonas Jones from Seneca, Kansas, enlisted on September 2, 1862, and was mustered into Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry on September 20, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas. The 13th Kansas Infantry was involved in the 1862 battles of Newtonia, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove, and the 1863 capture of Fort Smith. Jones mustered out with the regiment on ...
John Josey was elected major of the 15th Arkansas Infantry (Cleburne’s-Polk’s-Josey’s) in April 1862, promoted to lieutenant colonel in November 1862, and to colonel the following April; the majority of the regiment’s service was in the Western Theater, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga. In the fall of 1863, Josey was detached ...
Lewis Joy from Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted in the 11th Kansas Cavalry on September 1, 1862; he mustered in on September 15, 1862, as captain in command of Company I. The four Drew brothers (William, George, Josiah, Charles) were mustered in with Joy and were assigned to the same company; their photographs also appear in ...
Reuben Kay was born in Dover, Tennessee, in 1838. At the age of 14, he entered the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, graduating in 1858. He then joined his family in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1861, Kay joined the Missouri State Guard and served as an aide to Colonel John Taylor Hughes, commander of ...
