Hiram Hiller, from Clark County, Missouri, joined the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry as a private with his brother John in December 1861. Promoted to adjutant in June 1862, Hiller rose to major by the end of 1862 and to lieutenant colonel in July 1863. The 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry was organized ...
Martin Himes enlisted as a private in Company H, 34th New Jersey Infantry, on November 9, 1863. The 34th served in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana, and fought at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. Himes was discharged on June 1, 1865, for promotion to second lieutenant with the 65th U. S. Colored Infantry, ...
Thomas Carmichael Hindman was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in January 1828. He moved to Mississippi in 1841 and served with the 2nd Mississippi Infantry during the Mexican-American War. Hindman was admitted to the bar following the war and was elected to the Mississippi legislature; he then moved to Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas and ...
Henry Hitchcock enlisted as a private on August 14, 1862, at Winona County, Minnesota, in Company D, 7th Minnesota Infantry. On March 18, 1864, he was discharged for promotion to quartermaster sergeant and assigned to the 67th U. S. Colored Infantry. During Hitchcock’s service with the 7th, the regiment served in campaigns against the Sioux ...
Clark Hockensmith was born February 21, 1843; in 1860 he was living in Jackson County, Missouri. When the Civil War began he became a Confederate guerrilla, first fighting with Charles Harrison; in April 1863 Harrison and a party of officers were ordered to Colorado to recruit Confederate sympathizers. On the way, Harrison and ...
Born in Tennessee on February 22, 1835, William M. Hogsett moved with his family to Texas at the age of 16 and settled in Hopkins County. His father died in 1846 while serving in the Mexican-American War. On May 10, 1862, Hopkins joined Captain S.A. Minter’s Company K, Richard Waterhouse, Jr.’s Regiment of ...
George Holloway was commissioned a first lieutenant and mustered into the 33rd Missouri Infantry on August 7, 1862, as regimental adjutant. On December 22, 1862, he was detached to serve as acting assistant adjutant general of volunteers to General Clinton B. Fisk; on June 2, 1863, he was promoted to captain and received a ...
Horace Hooker was commissioned a first lieutenant in Bissell’s Engineer Regiment of the West on November 7, 1862, and assigned to Company C, he was mustered in on November 12, 1862. In February 1864, Bissell's Regiment and 25th Regiment Missouri Infantry were consolidated to form the 1st Missouri Engineers. The engineers were involved in repairing ...
Alexander Houk enlisted on August 28, 1862, at Washington County, Arkansas, and was mustered in as a corporal in Company L, 1st Arkansas Cavalry on October 2, 1862, at Springfield, Missouri. The 1st Arkansas Cavalry (U.S.) is the best known regiment of “Mountain Feds” to serve in the Ozarks. Recruited among Union refugees ...
Benjamin Housel from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, enlisted as a fifth sergeant in Company D, 4th Iowa Cavalry on September 28, 1861; on January 15, 1862, he was promoted to battalion commissary sergeant. Housel was transferred back to Company D on June 9, 1862; he was discharged on March 14, 1863, for promotion to lieutenant ...
George Houston joined the 2nd Missouri Cavalry as a first lieutenant on September 1, 1861, and was assigned to Company G. On July 15, 1862, he was promoted to captain and reassigned to Company A; on November 17, 1864, Houston was promoted to major and assumed the duties of regimental adjutant. The 2nd Missouri ...
Lidie Houston was the wife of Major George M. Houston, 2nd Missouri Cavalry. Carte-de-Visite by Gill’s City Gallery, Lancaster, Pa. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 11758
David F. How enlisted in Company E, 15th Pennsylvania Infantry as a private; on February 27, 1864, he was mustered out and commissioned first lieutenant in Company C, 10th Missouri Infantry. On March 7, 1864 he was detached and assigned as aide-de-camp to General Washington L. Elliott; he mustered out of the service on ...
Born on April 11, 1842, in St. Louis (some sources state Cincinnati, Ohio), James Flintham How was likely working for his father, John How, in the family hide and leather business in 1860. He enlisted as a private in Company K, 3rd U.S. Reserve Corps in St. Louis on May 8, 1861, participated in ...
