Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1833, Albert Leary Gihon received his medical degree in 1852 and was a professor at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery from 1853-54. Appointed and commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy in May 1855, Gihon was assigned to the sloop of war Portsmouth. ...
Henry Gilbreath, a native of Grant County, Wisconsin and resident of Liberty, Randolph County, Illinois, enlisted as a private in Company K, 5th Illinois Cavalry on September 10, 1861. Gilbreath was mustered into service that November, re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, and was mustered out as a company quartermaster sergeant in October 1865. The ...
George Gilson enlisted in Company H, 40th Missouri Infantry, as a recruiting second lieutenant on August 10, 1864, at St. Louis, Missouri. The 40th Missouri Infantry was mustered into service at Benton Barracks (St. Louis) on September 7, 1864. Gilson was mustered out and commissioned a captain to take command of Company B. The 40th Missouri ...
Samuel Glasgow was born on September 17, 1838, in Adams County, Ohio; he moved to Iowa in 1853 and was admitted to the bar in 1858. At the start of the Civil War, he raised Company I, 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was elected first lieutenant, but resigned on January 4, 1862. When the 23rd ...
Harrison Gleim enlisted in Company G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry on January 8, 1862, as a private; on January 21, 1862, he was detached and assigned as a clerk to General Schuyler Hamilton. On March 12, 1862, Gleim was promoted to first lieutenant of Company C, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery, and was detached on October ...
The Glenn House was a hotel located in Paris, Monroe County, Missouri; it was the site of many social functions and where the first Missouri State Guard unit from the area was organized in 1861. In September 1861, members of the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry entered the town and took possession of the Glenn ...
August Gloeser enlisted as a private in Company H, 1st Northeast Missouri Home Guard Infantry on July 15, 1861, and was promoted to first sergeant that October. In February 1862 the 1st and 2nd Northeast Missouri Regiments were consolidated to form the 21st Missouri Infantry, and Gloeser became a member of the new regiment’s ...
John T. Goodbrake enlisted in Company B, 1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry, at Gallatin, Missouri, on February 5, 1862. In the fall of 1861, Missouri Governor Hamilton Gamble proposed that a militia force be raised within the state to cooperate with regular U.S. troops, but not be ordered out of the state, “except for the immediate ...
Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30535
Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30536
Charles Goodier of Burlingame, Kansas, enlisted on May 14, 1861, and mustered into service on June 20, 1861, as a private in Company I, 2nd Kansas Infantry, at Lawrence, Kansas, for a period of three months. Goodier and the 2nd Kansas fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, then mustered ...
Solomon Goodrich enlisted as a corporal in Company K, 1st Iowa Cavalry on June 13, 1861; he transferred to Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on October 1, 1861, was promoted to first sergeant on January 13, 1862, and to second lieutenant on October 18, 1862. Bissell’s Engineers contributed to Union battlefield victories early in the ...
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 ...
Group photograph of Union veterans at a Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) encampment; while the photograph is undated, it is believed to have been taken at the reunion of Union and Confederate veterans held at Wilson’s Creek in August 1897. Veterans of the Civil War held regular reunions and encampments after the war, sometimes on ...
