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 ...
Francis Marion Cockrell was born October 1, 1834, near Warrensburg, Missouri; he graduated from Chapel Hill College in 1853, and became a lawyer in 1855. With the start of the Civil War, Cockrell raised a company for the Missouri State Guard and fought at Carthage and Wilson’s Creek. Early in 1862, he transferred ...
Born in May 1832 near Warrensburg, Missouri, Jeremiah Vardman Cockrell joined the Missouri State Guard when the Civil War began, and served as an officer in the 8th Division at the battles of Carthage, Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. He was commissioned a captain in the 5th Missouri Battalion in early 1862, but retired when ...
Carte-de-visite taken in Mexico, probably in early 1866, showing five former Confederate generals who left the United States following the Civil War. Standing in the rear (left to right) are John Bankhead Magruder and William P. Hardeman. Seated (left to right) are Henry W. Allen, Sterling Price, and Thomas C. Hindman. Eventually ...
Joseph S. Dean, a native of Kentucky and a merchant in St. Louis, enlisted in Company C, 1st Missouri Infantry (CS) at Memphis, Tennessee, in July 1861 and was soon elected a first lieutenant. In January 1862 he was appointed an acting aide-de-camp to General John S. Bowen in the Army of the Mississippi. ...
Archibald Dobbins was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1827; after marrying in 1850, he moved to Phillips County, Arkansas, where he became a successful planter. In 1862, when Helena, Arkansas, was occupied by Union forces, Dobbins sent his wife and children back to Tennessee and joined the staff of fellow Phillips County resident Major General ...
Henderson Duvall was born in 1838 in Culpeper County, Virginia, one of eight children born to the Reverend James and Lydia Duvall. On December 10, 1861, after serving with the Missouri State Guard at Wilson’s Creek and Lexington, Henderson enlisted as a private in Company C, 3rd Missouri Infantry at Richmond, Missouri. His ...
Thomas Duvall (left) and William Duvall (right), along with their brother Henderson, enlisted in Company C, 3rd Missouri Infantry on December 10, 1861, at Richmond, Missouri, after serving with the Missouri State Guard at Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. William was promoted to junior second lieutenant on May 8, 1862. The Duvall brothers fought at Pea ...
James Fagan was born on March 1, 1828, in Clark County, Kentucky; his family moved to Arkansas in 1838. With the start of the Civil War, Fagan raised 900 men for the 1st Arkansas Infantry. Fagan led his regiment at the Battle of Shiloh, but was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department in the fall ...
Flavius Fine enlisted in Company I, 10th Missouri Infantry on August 6, 1862, in Oregon County, Missouri. The 10th Missouri Infantry joined General Mosby Parsons’s brigade of General Daniel Frost’s Division, and participated in the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, 1862. Fine, serving as a drummer, joined the 10th Missouri Infantry ...
James Flynt enlisted on May 2, 1862, in Company D, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, at Trenton, Arkansas. Flynt was killed in action at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee, on December 31, 1862. Carte-de-Visite by J. Gorff & Co., Columbus, Miss. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31556
Charles W. Frazer was born on July 21, 1834, in Fayette County, Tennessee; he attended the University of Mississippi and was admitted to the bar in Memphis at the age of nineteen. With the start of the Civil War, Frazer joined the Confederate army on June 14, 1861, and was commissioned the captain ...
Born in New York in 1823, Daniel Marsh Frost graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1844 and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He resigned from the army in 1853 and settled in St. Louis, where he became a manufacturer, and served in the state legislature. Promoted to brigadier general in the ...
Hugh Garland joined the 1st Missouri Infantry as a captain in June 1861; the 1st Missouri Infantry was the first regiment from that state to enter Confederate service. Garland was promoted to major on May 16, 1862. The 1st Missouri Infantry participated in the 1862 battles of Shiloh and Corinth, where they suffered heavy ...
