This photograph is of 19-year-old Thomas Moody who joined Company F, 11th Missouri State Militia Cavalry at Macon City, Missouri, on March 14, 1862. The 11th was consolidated with the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry that October. Moody served with the regiment until he was mustered out on March 24, 1865. The 11th ...
David Moore was born on July 3, 1817, in Ohio; in 1861 he organized the 1st Northeast Missouri Home Guards, acting on orders issued by Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. As commander of that unit, he defeated Missouri State Guard forces at Athens, Missouri on August 5, 1861. Moore became colonel of the 21st ...
Edwin Moore was born in England in 1833; it is not known when he came to the United States. In May 1861 he enlisted in the 16th Illinois Infantry at Colchester, Illinois, as a second lieutenant; in July 1861 he was promoted to first lieutenant. Following the siege of New Madrid and Island ...
Sanford Vandiver Moore, born on October 10, 1832, in Oconee County, South Carolina, moved to Monroe County, Tennessee, by 1850. By 1860, he was a blacksmith in Webster County, Missouri. Moore joined Company B, 8th Missouri Cavalry, at Marshfield, Missouri, on July 20, 1862, and was mustered into service on July 30, 1862, ...
James A. Mulligan was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1829 to parents who had immigrated to the United States from Ireland. In 1856, while living in Chicago, he was appointed second lieutenant of the “Chicago Shield Guards.” When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Mulligan raised the 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, ...
John Murphy enlisted in Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on July 26, 1861; he was appointed a second lieutenant and assigned to Company B. Promoted to first lieutenant on July 22, 1863, he became a captain on August 13, 1863 and assumed command of Company K. Colonel Josiah W. Bissell’s “Engineer Regiment of the ...
Thomas Murray was born in Kentucky on May 2, 1835; he later moved to Missouri and became a newspaper editor. On July 4, 1861, he joined the 4th Infantry Regiment, 8th Division, Missouri State Guard at Warsaw, Missouri, and was elected major; he resigned on August 13, 1861, after fighting at Carthage and Wilson’s ...
Richard Musser was born on February 6, 1829, in Claysville, Harrison County, Kentucky, and was educated at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He moved to Brunswick, Missouri in 1849, and a year later to Trenton; he returned to Brunswick in 1854, was admitted to the bar, and began a law practice. Lieutenant Colonel Musser of the Missouri State ...
Undated photograph of the house in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, where Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon was born on July 14, 1818. Lyon was killed on August 10, 1861 at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, becoming the first Union general killed in the Civil War. Photograph by Unknown Photographer. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 11563
This photograph of John Nichols was taken while he was a prisoner; he is shown seated with leg irons attached to a ball and chain. The leg of a guard and a revolver are visible on left side of the photo; “John Nichols. Executed at Jefferson City Mo. Oct. 30th 1863” is written on ...
Born in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1830 (some sources state that he was born in Otis, Massachusetts, in 1829), Henry Noble attended the state normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts, then taught school for two years. In 1850, he moved to Dixon, Illinois, where he taught school, worked in the land office, ...
Galen Norton was mustered in as captain of Company D, 3rd Colorado Infantry on February 28, 1863; that October, the 2nd and 3rd Colorado Infantry were consolidated in St. Louis to form the 2nd Colorado Cavalry. Norton was mustered in as captain of the new regiment’s Company L; he resigned from the army on ...
Photograph of officers from the 23rd Iowa, outside their quarters; the setting of the photograph is unknown. The photographer’s backmark bears the imprint of Natchez, Mississippi, but there is no evidence that the 23rd Iowa was ever stationed in the Natchez area. It is entirely possible that the photographer was located near the ...
Peter Joseph Osterhaus was born in Coblenz, Prussia, on January 4, 1823; he attended the Berlin Military Academy and served in the Prussian army before immigrating to the United States after the 1848 revolution, settling in St. Louis, Missouri. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Osterhaus was appointed major of the 2nd Missouri Infantry; he ...
