Drawing of Brigadier General Meriwether (“Jeff”) Thompson of the 1st Division, Missouri State Guard and fellow inmates at the Union prison camp on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie. Thompson, known as the “Swamp Fox,” was captured near Pocahontas, Arkansas, on August 22, 1863, and was not exchanged until August 3, 1864. He joined Sterling Price ...
William W. Owen enlisted as a private in Company B, 8th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in Jefferson City on December 29, 1861; he was promoted to captain in May 1862 and reassigned to Company F. He was slightly wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri in August 1862 and ...
Undated photograph of Main Street in Paris, Monroe County, Missouri. Jackson Township, Monroe County (where Paris is located) contained more than 3,700 people in 1860. The first Confederate unit in the area was organized here in 1861. Union forces briefly occupied the town in July 1862; on October 15, 1864, about 400 Confederates attacked ...
Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30260
Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31590
Ambrotype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 32048
Mosby Monroe Parsons was born on May 21, 1822, in Charlottesville, Virginia. At age 13 his family moved to Cole County, Missouri, and two years later to Jefferson City, Missouri. He left his law practice to volunteer for the Mexican-American War and, as a captain, commanded Company F of Colonel Alexander Doniphan’s Missouri Mounted Volunteers. ...
Stephen Kearney (Kearny) Parsons (named for Mexican War General Stephen Watts Kearney), born in August 1851, was the son of Confederate General Mosby M. Parsons, commander of the 6th Division, Missouri State Guard and later a brigade and division commander in the Confederate army. General Parsons fought in numerous battles, including Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, Pea ...
Card with a drawing in red and blue of a soldier and female with the printed poem, The Girl I Left Behind Me. The card could be inscribed with a personal message by the soldier and given to his wife, mother, sister, or girlfriend when he departed for the war. Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer Image ...
Born in Sullivan County, Indiana, on July 17, 1837 (some sources state 1836), Harrison Henry Patten’s early education was “neglected,” as he only occasionally attended the local schools in winter, when the weather was unsuitable for farm work. He also briefly attended an academy in New Lebanon, Indiana, and began the study of law ...
Everett Peabody, a native of Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard University in 1849 at the age of 18. By the time of the Civil War, he was a railroad engineer living in St. Joseph, Missouri. In June 1861 Peabody was commissioned a major in Peabody’s Independent Reserve Corps Infantry; when his battalion was combined with other ...
John Finis Philips was born in Boone County, Missouri, on December 31, 1834. Admitted to the bar in 1857, Philips practiced in Georgetown, Missouri, until the Civil War began. He served as a member of the Missouri Convention in 1861, and was commissioned colonel of the 7th Missouri State Militia Cavalry on May ...
Lebbeus Pindall, born in 1832, moved to Monroe County, Missouri in 1856 and began a law practice in Paris, Missouri. In October 1861, he was elected captain of Company B, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard, and was promoted the following January and became major of the battalion. He also served as ...
Reuben Playford enlisted on May 14, 1861, as a musician in Company D, 2nd Kansas Infantry; he fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, and reportedly was near General Nathaniel Lyon when he was killed. He mustered out of the 2nd Kansas at Leavenworth, Kansas, on October 31, 1861. Playford enlisted ...
