Lysander Butler served as a musician in the 7th Ohio Infantry from May through October 1861. Leaving the 7th Ohio, he joined the 3rd Colorado Infantry (later reorganized as the 2nd Colorado Cavalry) and served in that regiment until January 1864. After being discharged, Butler was commissioned a lieutenant in the 67th U. ...
James Carlin enlisted in the Engineer Regiment of the West at Burlington, Iowa, on September 10, 1861; he was appointed sergeant on October 1, 1861, promoted to second lieutenant on March 29, 1865, and to first lieutenant on June 25, 1865. The Engineer Regiment of the West (also known as Bissell’s Engineers after their commander, Colonel ...
Eugene Carr (on right), a native of New York, graduated from West Point in 1850 and fought Native Americans in Texas. In 1861 he also joined General Lyon’s army, and commanded a cavalry company at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. While in command of a division of General Samuel Curtis’s Army of the ...
This undated cartoon features two foraging Union soldiers mounted on a mule. The officer carries a small box, while his partner carries a large bottle. Such uncaptioned cartoons are relatively rare in Civil War photography. Carte-de-Visite by T.L. Rivers, St. Louis, Mo. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31925
Nathan Carver enlisted on July 14, 1862, and was mustered into Company A, 9th Kansas Cavalry; he was promoted to corporal on September 25, 1864, and assigned to Company C. The 9th Kansas Cavalry fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the remainder of their time the members of the 9th ...
A native of Indiana, William Catt was a resident of Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls), Jefferson County, Kansas, when he enlisted in Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry in September 1862. Catt spent the next year and a half guarding the eastern border of Kansas; he was discharged in March 1864 because of disease. Returning ...
Maryland-born St. Louis resident Edward F. Chappell enlisted as first sergeant in Captain James C. Gorham’s Company of Missouri Artillery in Des Arc, Arkansas, on September 1, 1862. He was promoted to second lieutenant and later to first lieutenant. Captain Gorham was replaced by Charles B. Tilden in November 1862. The battery ...
George Lafayette Childress, born on October 6, 1838, in Cherokee County, Alabama, came to Webster County, Missouri (then part of Greene County) in 1851. When the Civil War began, Childress enlisted in Captain Joseph McMahan’s Company G, Webster County Home Guard as a second lieutenant, and served from June 9 to August 11, 1861. Childress then ...
John B. Clark Jr. was born on January 14, 1831, in Fayette, Missouri; he attended the Fayette Academy and Missouri University. He then spent two years in California before traveling east to attend Harvard Law School. Returning to Fayette, he established a law practice. When the Civil War started, Clark joined the Missouri State ...
Charles Clark was born in 1844 in Perry County, Ohio; he enlisted in Company E, 21st Missouri Infantry on September 18, 1862, in Hannibal, Missouri. The 21st Missouri Infantry saw action at Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Pleasant Hill, Tupelo, Nashville, and Fort Blakely. Clark and the 21st Missouri Infantry were mustered out of service on April ...
Clark, born in Virginia in 1836 and a resident of Wheaton, Illinois, entered the army as assistant surgeon of the 37th Illinois Infantry in September 1861. The 37th participated in the battles of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, and Clark helped treat the regiment’s wounded after both battles. Clark was transferred from the 37th Illinois and ...
A son of the famed explorer, Meriwether Clark was born on January 10, 1809, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1826 he received an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy and graduated four years later, ranking twenty-third in a class of forty-two graduates. Clark was assigned to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, where ...
Samuel Churchill Clark, the grandson of famed explorer William Clark and the son of noted designer-architect Meriwether Lewis Clark, was born in St. Louis in 1842. He entered West Point in 1859, but left the academy when the Civil War began and enlisted as a private in the Missouri State Guard. He fought ...
Frances L. Clayton, who dressed like a male, reputedly enlisted with her husband in a Missouri regiment in the fall of 1861. In order to disguise her gender, she took to the manly vices of drinking, smoking, chewing and gambling, and was described as an “accomplished horseman.” She fought alongside her husband at the Battle ...
