Irish-born Joseph Kelly, a veteran of the British Army and St. Louis grocer, became captain of the Washington Blues militia company in 1857. In May 1861, Kelly was ordered to take his company to Jefferson City as an escort for arms and gunpowder, thereby avoiding the so-called “Camp Jackson Massacre.” Kelly and his ...
James Kennerly and his brothers Lewis and Samuel, from St. Louis, were members of the Missouri State Militia, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on June 22, 1861, ...
Lewis Kennerly was one of three brothers (James and Samuel) from St. Louis who were captured at Camp Jackson, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on ...
Alexander A. Lesueur, born on November 25, 1842, participated in the “Southwest Expedition” (the Missouri State Militia expedition to the Kansas-Missouri border in the winter of 1860-61). According to the 1881 History of Lafayette County, he enlisted in Captain Joseph M. Kelly’s Washington Blues company of Missouri State Militia on May 8, 1861, and served ...
James “Dick” Liddell was a member of William Clarke Quantrill’s Confederate guerilla band during the Civil War. In this photo, Liddell is wearing a mounted services jacket, most likely taken from a Union soldier. Quantrill and his guerrillas harassed Union soldiers, raided pro-Union towns, and scored several dramatic and devastating victories, such as ...
John Lockman joined Company A, 6th Arkansas Infantry in June 1861, and was promoted to third lieutenant on July 26, 1861, at Pocahontas, Arkansas, and detailed as ordnance officer. Some sources state that he resigned in April 1862 when he was not reelected. In May 1862, Lockman was ordered to join Major General Thomas Hindman, ...
Emmett MacDonald practiced law in St. Louis and joined the Missouri Volunteer Militia in the First Military District (St. Louis) under the command of Brigadier General Daniel Frost before the Civil War. In November 1860, Frost received orders from Missouri Governor Robert Stewart to restore order along the Missouri border from raiding parties of Kansas ...
George W. Maddox was born in Missouri in 1831; in the 1860 census he is listed as a farmer residing in Big Cedar, Jackson County, Missouri. In January 1862, Maddox, along with Charles Fletcher “Fletch” Taylor and others, joined Quantrill’s band as some of the guerrilla chieftain’s earliest recruits. He participated in the ...
James McCown came to Missouri from Virginia in 1840, settling in Warrensburg, where he became active in community affairs. With the start of the Civil War, he joined the Missouri State Guard with his three sons, and become lieutenant colonel and later colonel of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 8th Division. When the Confederate ...
Undated ambrotype photograph of Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch’s staff; Francis Crawford Armstrong is standing on the right and Lunsford Lindsay Lomax is seated on the left; the other three individuals have not been identified. The photograph was taken sometime between the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in August 1861 and the Battle of Pea Ridge ...
Daniel McIntosh was born in Georgia on September 20, 1822; his family moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1828. When the Civil War started, he organized and served as colonel of the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers, later known as the 1st Creek Cavalry Regiment; eight members of his family served in the regiment. The ...
Thomas Murray was born in Kentucky on May 2, 1835; he later moved to Missouri and became a newspaper editor. On July 4, 1861, he joined the 4th Infantry Regiment, 8th Division, Missouri State Guard at Warsaw, Missouri, and was elected major; he resigned on August 13, 1861, after fighting at Carthage and Wilson’s ...
Richard Musser was born on February 6, 1829, in Claysville, Harrison County, Kentucky, and was educated at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He moved to Brunswick, Missouri in 1849, and a year later to Trenton; he returned to Brunswick in 1854, was admitted to the bar, and began a law practice. Lieutenant Colonel Musser of the Missouri State ...
This photograph of John Nichols was taken while he was a prisoner; he is shown seated with leg irons attached to a ball and chain. The leg of a guard and a revolver are visible on left side of the photo; “John Nichols. Executed at Jefferson City Mo. Oct. 30th 1863” is written on ...
