Gilbert Woodworth, a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted and mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861, as a private; he was promoted to corporal on April 8, 1862. The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized from July 1861 to January 1862 at Leavenworth, Kansas; the regiment fought in the ...
In the 1860 U.S. Census, Edward Wray is listed as a native of Pennsylvania, 21 years old, a clerk (possibly working for merchant Joseph W. McClurg), and living in a boarding house in Linn Creek, Camden County, Missouri. Wray married Cornelia Murphy on January 8, 1861, in Linn Creek. He was mustered into service as captain ...
Joseph Birtley Wright, a minister and native of Randolph County, Missouri, was a resident of Pettis County when he enlisted in the Confederate army on January 1, 1862, in Springfield, Missouri. He served as a private in Company G, 5th Missouri Infantry and participated in several actions, then was promoted to chaplain of the ...
Photograph of John Wyland in Masonic vest and apron, probably when he served as the Missouri Grand Lodge as district deputy grand master. Wyland was a member of United Lodge No. 5, Springfield, Missouri; he demitted (resigned from) that lodge on November 15, 1866 and transferred to Perseverance Lodge No. 92 in Louisiana, Missouri. ...
Jerome Yarbrough was born in December 1837 in Giles County, Tennessee. By 1850 he had moved to Greene County, Missouri. When the Civil War began, Yarbrough enlisted in the Greene County Home Guards. Mustered out of that unit, he enlisted on August 19, 1861, at Rolla, Missouri and was mustered into ...
Theodore Yates, a native of Herkimer County, New York, was born on September 25, 1832. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his parents in 1841. In 1849, he relocated to St. Louis and engaged in a “mercantile business.” Yates was commissioned captain of Company H, 1st Missouri Infantry on April 25, 1861. ...
Charles Zagonyi is leaning on a sword and standing next to a pedestal holding a flag; the flag was presented to his command by Jessie Benton Fremont, the general’s wife. Carte-de-Visite by E. Anthony, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30649
Carte-de-Visite by George B. Rockwood, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30648
Carte-de-Visite by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 32031
Carte-de-Visite by L. Prang & Co., Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31624
Born in Szatmar, Hungary, in 1826, Charles Zagonyi served as a first lieutenant in the Hungarian army and was captured fighting the Austrians during his nation's failed bid for independence in 1848-49. After the war, Zagonyi fled to Turkey, then England, before finally sailing ...
Major Charles Zagonyi, commander of General John C. Fremont’s Body Guard, led his cavalry force in a successful charge against Missouri State Guard forces at Springfield, Missouri, on October 25, 1861. Assisted by Major Frank White’s Prairie Scouts, Zagonyi was able to secure a much needed Union victory after their defeat at Wilson’s Creek on ...
Engravings by Henry Lovie of “Zagonyi’s Charge,” made for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; the drawing appeared in the November 23, 1861, edition of the paper. The caption on the bottom of the drawing is in German. Engraving by Henry Lovie Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 11884
Engraving made by Henry Lovie for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, of Major Charles Zagonyi’s charge at Springfield, Missouri, on October 25, 1861. The caption on the bottom of the drawing is in both German and English; it appeared for the November 23, 1861, issue of the newspaper. Engraving by Henry Lovie Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; ...
