Born in Virginia on October 22, 1823, Robert Vance Keller was listed in the 1860 U.S. Census as a farmer in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. According to the Goodspeed history of Newton County, published in 1888, Keller was part of the “first war trouble” in the county, when, on March 14, 1862, he took ...
Rolla Keller, a native of Manchester, Illinois, enlisted on June 1, 1861 in Milton, Illinois, and was mustered in at Rolla, Missouri, as a private in Company K, 7th Missouri Infantry. The 7th participated in General John C. Fremont’s campaign to capture Springfield, Missouri, in the fall of 1861, and then moved to Tennessee. ...
William Kellogg mustered into the 10th Missouri Infantry on August 15, 1861, and was appointed regimental commissary sergeant on September 20, 1861. On January 27, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. The 10th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis, Missouri, in August 1861; the regiment fought in numerous actions, including the ...
Irish-born Joseph Kelly, a veteran of the British Army and St. Louis grocer, became captain of the Washington Blues militia company in 1857. In May 1861, Kelly was ordered to take his company to Jefferson City as an escort for arms and gunpowder, thereby avoiding the so-called “Camp Jackson Massacre.” Kelly and his ...
James Kennerly and his brothers Lewis and Samuel, from St. Louis, were members of the Missouri State Militia, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on June 22, 1861, ...
Lewis Kennerly was one of three brothers (James and Samuel) from St. Louis who were captured at Camp Jackson, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on ...
Eugene Kent enlisted on September 5, 1862, and was mustered into Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry on September 15, 1862, as a private. In September 1863 he was promoted to corporal; on August 22, 1864, he received a discharge for promotion to first lieutenant with Company D, 18th U. S. Colored Infantry. Kent ...
Albert Kessler enlisted on August 22, 1862, and was mustered into Company G, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 15, 1862, as a private. Kessler was promoted later to first sergeant and assigned to Company K; he was promoted to first lieutenant on February 19, 1865. He was slightly wounded during the Battle of ...
James Lawlor Kiernan was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1837. He graduated from the New York University Academy of Medicine in 1857, and when the Civil War began, served with the 69th New York at the Battle of First Bull Run. After service on General John C. Fremont’s staff, Kiernan was commissioned ...
Edward Killian (Kilian) enlisted on November 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company A, 17th Missouri Infantry on December 1, 1862, as a private. On September 10, 1863, he was promoted to sergeant major and assigned to the regimental non-commissioned staff. The 17th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis by the German-American “Turner” Society ...
David Kimmel enlisted in Company K, 10th Missouri Infantry on September 16, 1861, at Macon City, Missouri. On July 25, 1862, he was assigned duties as a nurse at the hospital in Corinth, Mississippi; left behind to treat the wounded at the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, Kimmel was captured on May 26, 1863. ...
William Kinsman was born in Nova Scotia and immigrated to Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was 28 years old when he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 21, 1862; he was mustered in on September 19, 1862. He was promoted to colonel on December 1, 1862. He commanded the 23rd ...
Samuel Kirkham enlisted on August 23, 1862, and was mustered into Company C, 12th Kansas Infantry as a private on September 26, 1862, at Paola, Kansas. On April 15, 1863, he was promoted to corporal and to second lieutenant on October 30, 1864. The 12th Kansas Infantry was organized in September 1862 at Paola, Kansas; ...
William H. Knickerbocker was mustered in as assistant surgeon of the 2nd Missouri Cavalry on September 1, 1861. The 2nd Missouri Cavalry was organized in the fall of 1861 at Benton Barracks (St. Louis) and placed in immediate service pursuing guerillas in North Missouri; in 1864 they were engaged in battles with General Sterling Price during ...
