This tintype photograph depicts an unknown private in the Pulaski Light Artillery Battery. Organized in December 1860 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, the Pulaski Light Artillery Battery was originally known as the Totten Light Artillery Battery. It was named after William Totten, a prominent physician in Little Rock, and his son, Captain James Totten, the ...
The USS Red Rover was a side wheel steamer built in 1859 at Cape Girardeau, Missouri; purchased by the Confederacy on November 7, 1861, and put to use as a barracks ship for the floating battery at New Orleans, Louisiana, she served at Island No. 10 until she was captured there by the Union gunboat ...
Clement Neeley Vann, lieutenant colonel, 1st Regiment Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, served under the command of General Stand Watie. Vann was 24 years old when he enlisted as a private at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation; his regiment was mustered into Confederate service on November 5, 1861. He participated in a number of engagements, including the ...
Little is known about James T. Ward. It appears that by May 3, 1861, he was serving on the staff of Colonel Earl Van Dorn in Texas; on August 10, 1861, he was appointed a lieutenant colonel by Van Dorn, subject to the approval of President Davis. On November 20, 1862, Ward apparently ...
Stand Watie was born on December 12, 1806, in Oothcloga (near present day Rome, Georgia). Degadoga, or “He Stands,” was given the name Isaac S. Watie by his parents; he later dropped his Christian name and became known as Stand Watie. At age twenty-two he acquired a license to practice law and procured ...
Born in Kentucky in 1837, Omer Rose Weaver and his parents came to Little Rock the following year. The Weavers were one of the most socially prominent families in the city. His father, Samuel Weaver, built one of the largest homes in Little Rock and served as Arkansas Secretary of State. Omer ...
Hand-drawn sketch of Lieutenant John Weymouth, 18th Virginia Infantry, drawn by Major John C. Smith, 12th Arkansas Infantry, while both were prisoners of war at Johnson’s Island, Lake Erie, Ohio. Weymouth was wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Smith, a native of Ireland, came to the ...
Dr. Caleb Winfrey graduated from the Medical Department of St. Louis University in 1847 and settled in Lone Jack, Missouri, where he established his medical practice. In 1861 he enlisted as a surgeon in the Missouri State Guard, and accompanied Colonel Gideon Thompson to Cowskin Prairie. He was present at the battles of ...
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 ...
