Benjamin Jennings was appointed a second lieutenant in Company C, 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 7, 1862. On September 19, 1862, the 23rd Iowa was mustered into the federal service and ordered to St. Louis. Jennings was promoted to first lieutenant on January 1, 1863, and to captain and company commander on November 6, 1863. After ...
Stephen Jennings, a native of New York and a resident of Topeka, Kansas, enlisted and was mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry as sergeant on July 16, 1861; he was promoted to regimental sergeant major on September 5, 1861. Jennings was promoted to second lieutenant in Company A on January 1, 1862, and ...
Charles Ransford Jennison was born in New York on June 6, 1834, and moved to Wisconsin in 1846, where he studied medicine. Marrying at the age of 20, Dr. Jennison and his wife moved to Osawatomie, Kansas in 1857, and to Mound City, Kansas, shortly thereafter. Before the start of the Civil War, ...
John Brown’s Fort was a building built in 1848 to be used as a guard and fire engine house for the Harpers Ferry Armory. On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his raiding party barricaded themselves in the building after their ill-fated attempt to seize the armory. The building was attacked the following ...
On September 27, 1864, Confederate guerilla leader William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, leading about 50 well-armed men, removed 23 unarmed Union soldiers from a train at Centralia, Missouri, murdered all but one, then set fire to the train and depot. Around 3:30 P.M., Major A. V. E. Johnson, commanding approximately 125 men of the 39th ...
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 Jones, a native of Iowa and a resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry, on October 31, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was captured on April 25, 1864, at Marks’ Mill, Arkansas, and held as a prisoner of war in Tyler, Texas, until ...
Jonas Jones from Seneca, Kansas, enlisted on September 2, 1862, and was mustered into Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry on September 20, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas. The 13th Kansas Infantry was involved in the 1862 battles of Newtonia, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove, and the 1863 capture of Fort Smith. Jones mustered out with the regiment on ...
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 ...
Lewis Joy from Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted in the 11th Kansas Cavalry on September 1, 1862; he mustered in on September 15, 1862, as captain in command of Company I. The four Drew brothers (William, George, Josiah, Charles) were mustered in with Joy and were assigned to the same company; their photographs also appear in ...
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 ...
Born in Virginia on October 22, 1823, Robert Vance Keller was listed in the 1860 U.S. Census as a farmer in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. According to the Goodspeed history of Newton County, published in 1888, Keller was part of the “first war trouble” in the county, when, on March 14, 1862, he took ...
Rolla Keller, a native of Manchester, Illinois, enlisted on June 1, 1861 in Milton, Illinois, and was mustered in at Rolla, Missouri, as a private in Company K, 7th Missouri Infantry. The 7th participated in General John C. Fremont’s campaign to capture Springfield, Missouri, in the fall of 1861, and then moved to Tennessee. ...
William Kellogg mustered into the 10th Missouri Infantry on August 15, 1861, and was appointed regimental commissary sergeant on September 20, 1861. On January 27, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. The 10th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis, Missouri, in August 1861; the regiment fought in numerous actions, including the ...
