George Gibbs was born in Burke County, North Carolina, in 1838. In 1849 his family moved to Scott County, Missouri. Gibbs served six months in a Missouri State Guard cavalry regiment before joining an artillery unit (likely Captain Winston’s Company, Tennessee Light Artillery at New Madrid, Missouri); following the surrender of Island No. ...
James C. Gorham, born in Callaway County, Missouri in 1834, organized a Missouri State Guard artillery battery in November 1861 and served with the unit at the Battle of Pea Ridge the following March. After the Confederate defeat at Pea Ridge, Gorham accompanied the rest of the Army of the West across the Mississippi ...
Martin E. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on June 3, 1815. In 1836, he traveled by wagon and boat with his new bride to Lewis County, Missouri, where he established a steam sawmill with his brothers. When the Civil War began in 1861, Green organized a cavalry regiment in northeastern Missouri to join ...
Post-Civil War photograph of Samuel H. Gunter, Company I, 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Gunter, a native of the Cherokee Nation, enlisted in the Cherokee Nation as a second lieutenant in Stand Watie’s Regiment on July 2, 1861. An inscription on the back of the photograph reads, “Capt. Sam Gunter, noted Cherokee Bushwhacker.” Watie ...
Robert Hart was born in Ireland about 1838; a record of when he immigrated to the United States has not been found. On August 1, 1862, Hart was commissioned the lieutenant colonel of McNeill’s Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (30th Arkansas Infantry); on November 12, 1862, he was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the ...
Thomas Carmichael Hindman was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in January 1828. He moved to Mississippi in 1841 and served with the 2nd Mississippi Infantry during the Mexican-American War. Hindman was admitted to the bar following the war and was elected to the Mississippi legislature; he then moved to Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas and ...
Clark Hockensmith was born February 21, 1843; in 1860 he was living in Jackson County, Missouri. When the Civil War began he became a Confederate guerrilla, first fighting with Charles Harrison; in April 1863 Harrison and a party of officers were ordered to Colorado to recruit Confederate sympathizers. On the way, Harrison and ...
Born in Tennessee on February 22, 1835, William M. Hogsett moved with his family to Texas at the age of 16 and settled in Hopkins County. His father died in 1846 while serving in the Mexican-American War. On May 10, 1862, Hopkins joined Captain S.A. Minter’s Company K, Richard Waterhouse, Jr.’s Regiment of ...
John T. Hughes was born in 1817, near Versailles, Kentucky; his family moved to Missouri in 1820. He graduated from Bonne Femme College and taught school in the Clay County, Missouri, area until the start of the Mexican-American War. He then enlisted in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers and became the regiment’s ...
Edward Brodie Hull, Jr., began the Civil War as captain of the Pike County Mounted Guards Company in the 4th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard. He was elected lieutenant colonel of the 4th Cavalry Regiment on August 14, 1861, and was wounded leading the regiment at the siege of Lexington in September ...
John Jarrette joined William Clarke Quantrill’s guerrillas in October 1861. He was with Quantrill during the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, and with William Anderson during the massacre at Centralia, Missouri, on September 27, 1864. After the war, Jarrette joined the Jesse James gang, and was a suspect in the ...
Benjamin S. Johnson, born in Tennessee in 1836, moved with his widowed mother to Greene County, Missouri, in the early 1850s. Johnson enlisted in Company A, 3rd Missouri Cavalry in Carroll County, Arkansas, on August 1, 1862, as a private. On October 3, 1862, he was elected senior second lieutenant and transferred to Company H ...
John Josey was elected major of the 15th Arkansas Infantry (Cleburne’s-Polk’s-Josey’s) in April 1862, promoted to lieutenant colonel in November 1862, and to colonel the following April; the majority of the regiment’s service was in the Western Theater, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga. In the fall of 1863, Josey was detached ...
Reuben Kay was born in Dover, Tennessee, in 1838. At the age of 14, he entered the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, graduating in 1858. He then joined his family in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1861, Kay joined the Missouri State Guard and served as an aide to Colonel John Taylor Hughes, commander of ...
