William R. Sargent, a native of Indiana and resident of Clayton, Iowa, enlisted at age 19 in Company I, 4th Iowa Cavalry on February 11, 1864, and was mustered into service the same day. The 4th Iowa Cavalry saw extensive service in Arkansas and Mississippi, including the siege of Vicksburg, Brice’s Cross Roads, and ...
Frederick William Schaurte, a native of Cologne, Prussia, was born on December 3, 1836. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 13, 1854, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was assigned to Company G, 2nd U.S. Infantry. Promoted to corporal in December 1855 and to first sergeant in November 1856, Schaurte served out his ...
Born in Gerry, New York, on September 29, 1831, John McAllister Schofield graduated from West Point in 1853, seventh in a class of fifty-two graduates. Commissioned a lieutenant in the artillery, he served in Florida and taught at West Point, and in 1861 was a professor of physics at Washington University in St. ...
Adolph Schuster enlisted on April 22, 1861, in Company A, 1st Missouri Infantry, and fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. He enlisted again in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 22, 1861, as a second lieutenant in Company I, 15th Missouri Infantry. On January 15, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant and became regimental ...
Thomas Seawell mustered into Company E, 10th Missouri Infantry on August 8, 1861, as a first lieutenant; he was promoted to captain on November 10, 1862. While with the 10th, Seawell participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth and the Vicksburg campaign. Seawell resigned on August 10, 1863, and was commissioned the colonel of ...
John Jacob See was born in New York in October 1843. Much of his early life is unknown. At the start of the Civil War, See enlisted in Captain Colley B. Holland’s Company, Missouri Home Guard, at Springfield on June 7, 1861, and was mustered out on October 5, 1861. See joined ...
Emanuel Shafer enlisted on July 15, 1861, as a private in Company E, 2nd Northeast Missouri Infantry; in February 1862 the 1st Northeast became the 21st Missouri Infantry. Shafter was promoted to sergeant on March 15, 1862, and to first sergeant on May 15, 1862. He was further promoted to second lieutenant on ...
Carlton Shamp enlisted in Company D, 21st Missouri Infantry on February 1, 1862, as a musician; in May 1864 he was promoted to principal musician and transferred to the regiment’s non-commissioned staff. On March 1, 1865, Shamp was promoted to first sergeant and transferred to Company K. He was mustered out of the ...
Joseph Shelby was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1830, where he was raised and attended Transylvania College; in 1852 he moved to Missouri where he became one of the richest young men in the state as a hemp farmer, rope manufacturer, and steamboat owner. In 1854, he returned to Kentucky, where he recruited a company of ...
Isaac Shepard was born in Natick, Massachusetts on July, 7, 1816, and was educated at Harvard; coming to Missouri, he became a major and assistant adjutant general in the Missouri State Militia, and served as an aide to Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. With the death of Lyon, Shepard ...
One of the most famous generals of the American Civil War, William T. Sherman was born February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio; he received an appointment to West Point at the age of 16. After graduating in 1840 he was commissioned a second lieutenant with the 3rd U. S. Artillery. In 1853, Sherman ...
Henry Shubert, a cooper and native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, enlisted as a sergeant in Linn Creek, Camden County, Missouri, in Company K, 29th Missouri Infantry on August 15, 1862; he was appointed commissary sergeant in July 1863. Shubert served as the commissary sergeant until September 23, 1864, when he was promoted to first ...
The Sibley tent was invented by U.S. Army officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856. The “new and improved conical tent” was twelve feet high and eighteen feet in diameter; Sibley claimed that it could hold 20 men comfortably with “arms and equipments.” It was supported by a central pole and iron tripod ...
Drawing of Union gunboats and mortar boats bombarding Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River during the New Madrid-Island No. 10 Campaign, February 28 – April 8, 1862. Despite Ulysses S. Grant’s success in opening the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in February 1862, the Mississippi still remained closed to Union river traffic. Confederate fortifications blocked ...
