Mexican-American War veteran John A. Fisher enlisted as a lieutenant in Company D, 23rd Missouri Infantry, on August 24, 1861, at Eagleville, Missouri. On April 6, 1862, the regiment was engaged in the Battle of Shiloh and Lieutenant Fisher and his brother Eugene B. Fisher were captured and held as prisoners of war. ...
Mary Fisher was the wife of Lieutenant John A. Fisher, Company D, 23rd Missouri Infantry. Lieutenant Fisher was captured at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, and held as a prisoner of war for six months. He was paroled and released in October 1862, discharged for medical reasons in January 1863, ...
Thomas Fletcher was born in Jefferson County, Missouri on January 21, 1827; in 1860, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he supported the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president. With the start of the Civil War, Fletcher was appointed colonel of the 31st Missouri Volunteer Infantry and served with that regiment from ...
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
Born in Machias, New York, on March 6, 1836, Fletcher M. Follett was a physician and surgeon in Buffalo, New York, when he entered the U.S. Navy as an acting assistant surgeon on January 17, 1863. Ordered to duty with the Mississippi Squadron, Follett traveled to Cairo, Illinois, and reported to Acting Rear Admiral ...
James Ford was born in Painesville, Ohio, on May 22, 1829; moving to the Colorado Territory, he worked in the coal and iron business. With the start of the Civil War, an independent cavalry company was organized under Captain James Ford’s command. Ford led his company to New Mexico, where they became Company ...
Joseph Ford enlisted as a private in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry, on September 6, 1862. The 13th Kansas was organized on September 10, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas, and fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the unit also preformed provost and garrison duties in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Cherokee ...
This photograph is of a structure identified as Fort No. 1 in Springfield. Comparison of the photograph and the plan of Fort No. 1, however, indicate that this structure was likely not part of the fort. It could have been a powder magazine built inside the fort after the engineering plan was completed, ...
Robert Fraker enlisted on March 1, 1862, and was mustered in as a private in Company K, 6th Missouri Cavalry, at Rolla, Missouri. He was promoted to corporal in May 1862 and first sergeant that November; he was promoted to first lieutenant on February 4, 1864, and transferred to Company E. On October ...
James A.D. Frazell was born in Madison County, New York, on October 17, 1826, and by 1860 was living in Lykins County, Kansas. He enlisted as a private in Company F, 2nd Kansas Infantry on May 14, 1861, and was mustered into service on June 20, 1861. After participating in the Battle of ...
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 ...
Willis Freeman enlisted as a private in Company A, 14th Missouri Cavalry, on October 15, 1861, at Jefferson City, Missouri. On February 4, 1863, the 14th Missouri Cavalry was disbanded and its soldiers transferred to the 4th Missouri Cavalry. The 14th Missouri Cavalry saw action in the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the ...
Born in Savannah, Georgia, John C. Fremont joined the army as a second lieutenant of topographical engineers in 1838. For three years he helped map the area between the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Fremont spent the early 1840s exploring and mapping much of the area between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. In ...
Carte-de-Visite by J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 11457
