Born about 1830 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Edmund P. Sutton was farming in Aviston, Clinton County, Illinois, when the Civil War began. He enlisted and was mustered into service in Company K, 30th Illinois Infantry at Carlyle, Illinois, on August 28, 1861, as a sergeant. Promoted to second lieutenant in October 1862 and ...
Lorenzo Sutton of Vermillion, Kansas, enlisted in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry at Atchison, Kansas, on September 2, 1862; he was mustered in as a private on September 20, 1862. The 13th Kansas Infantry immediately went to Newtonia, Missouri, and fought at the Battle of Newtonia on September 29, 1862, and at Prairie Grove ...
Thomas Sweeny was born on December 25, 1820, at Cork, Ireland; he immigrated to the United States in the early 1830s. In 1846, he enlisted as a second lieutenant in the New York Volunteers and fought in the Mexican-American War. Sweeny was severely wounded at the 1847 Battle of Churubusco, requiring the amputation ...
Theodore Switzler began his military career by organizing a company of the Dade County Home Guards and serving as their captain. After participating in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Switzler’s company was combined with others to form the 6th Missouri Cavalry. Switzler was promoted to major on March 9, 1862, and to lieutenant ...
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1842, Charles Taylor moved to Missouri at an early age. When the Civil War began, “Fletch” became an officer in William Clarke Quantrill’s guerrilla band. He participated in the Battle of Independence on August 11, 1862, and was sent by Quantrill to Lawrence, Kansas to scout the area ...
Henry Clay Taylor, a native of Kentucky, moved to St. Louis with his family in 1832. There he was “given superior educational advantages,” including an opportunity to study at St. Louis University. When the Mexican-American War began, Taylor enlisted in Captain Richard Weightman’s artillery battery in Colonel Alexander Doniphan’s Missouri volunteers. After the war, ...
Born on July 23, 1838, on the Isle of Jersey, James Edward Teale and other family members arrived in New York on the ship Westminster in July 1843. The Teale family settled in New York, then Wisconsin, before moving to Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In the fall of 1855, the Teale family moved to ...
Jonas Tebbetts (right) was born about 1820 in Rochester, New Hampshire, but moved to the Arkansas frontier in 1839. He built a home in Fayetteville in 1853 and became a popular leader in the town. With the start of the Civil War, Tebbetts expressed strong pro-Union sentiments, and in March 1862 was arrested ...
Meriwether (“Jeff”) Thompson, the “Missouri Swamp Fox,” was born on January 22, 1826, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia; he moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1847, and St. Joseph, Missouri, a year later. Thompson served as mayor of St. Joseph from 1857 through 1860; he presided over the ceremony for the inaugural ride of the Pony ...
John Thorp, a native of Ohio and a resident of Iola, Kansas, enlisted in the 3rd Kansas Infantry on July 24, 1861. In early 1862 the 3rd and 4th Kansas Infantry regiments, having failed to complete their organization, were consolidated to form the 10th Kansas Infantry. After the organization of the 10th Kansas, ...
James Totten was born on September 11, 1818, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he attended West Point and graduated in 1841. In the 1850s he was sent to the Kansas Territory to suppress the disturbances there and was stationed at Forts Riley and Leavenworth. In early 1861, then Captain Totten was in command of the Little Rock ...
Alexander Tracy enlisted in the Missouri Home Guards at Canton, Missouri on July 15, 1861, as a first lieutenant; he was mustered into service in Company F, 21st Missouri Infantry in February 1862. After spending the fall of 1862 in Missouri recruiting for the regiment, he returned to the field, was promoted to captain ...
Charles Tracy enlisted on July 15, 1861, in the 2nd Northeast Regiment, Missouri Home Guards; he was promoted to captain on October 1, 1861. In February 1862 the 1st and 2nd Northeast Missouri Volunteers were consolidated to organize the 21st Missouri Infantry. Tracy was mustered in on February 1, 1862, as the regiment’s ...
Henry Treece is believed to have enlisted in Bowen’s Battalion on July 17, 1861, at Rolla, Missouri, and was promoted to first sergeant and assigned to Company A. In late 1862, when the 10th Missouri Cavalry regiment was formed, he was promoted to second lieutenant in Company A; promoted to first lieutenant on September ...
