Undated group photograph of George Washington Howard, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Benjamin Kearny Roberts, 7th Iowa Infantry, Andrew W. Wills, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Charles M. Keyser, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and Sanford Cobb Kellogg, 37th New York. Each signed the back of the photograph, in the following order: Howard, Roberts, Wills, Keyser, and Kellogg. It is probable ...
John Howard from Lawrence, Kansas, enlisted on August 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company B, 12th Kansas Infantry in September 1862 at Paola, Kansas. He was promoted to corporal on September 25, 1862, and to sergeant on December 4, 1862. The 12th Kansas Infantry was organized at Paola in September 1862 and initially operated ...
Robert Howard transferred as a first lieutenant from the 1st Nebraska Infantry to Company G, 2nd Missouri Cavalry (Merrill’s Horse) on September 22, 1861. He was promoted to captain on May 1, 1862, and detached to St. Louis as a judge advocate; he spent the majority of his service on detached duty on the ...
George H. Hubbard was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, graduated from the Vermont Medical College in June 1845, and practiced medicine in Bradford, New Hampshire until 1849. On September 30, 1861, he was appointed a surgeon of U. S. Volunteers; he also served as regimental surgeon for the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry. Assigned to ...
George Hudson enlisted on June 15, 1863, at Rolla, Missouri, and was mustered into Company H, 11th Missouri Cavalry on July 14, 1863, at St. Louis, Missouri. Promoted to sergeant, he deserted on August 12, 1863, from Benton Barracks; he was never apprehended. Carte-de-Visite by Mrs. R. Cooper & Sons, Maysville, Ky. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek ...
John T. Hughes was born in 1817, near Versailles, Kentucky; his family moved to Missouri in 1820. He graduated from Bonne Femme College and taught school in the Clay County, Missouri, area until the start of the Mexican-American War. He then enlisted in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers and became the regiment’s ...
Born on June 16, 1839, in Amsterdam, Holland, Huiskamp sailed on board the ship Cotton Planter from Rotterdam and arrived in the United States in 1848. He became a naturalized citizen in Keokuk, Iowa, in October 1860. When the Civil War began, Huiskamp enlisted in Company A, 1st Iowa Cavalry on June 13, 1861, and ...
Edward Brodie Hull, Jr., began the Civil War as captain of the Pike County Mounted Guards Company in the 4th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard. He was elected lieutenant colonel of the 4th Cavalry Regiment on August 14, 1861, and was wounded leading the regiment at the siege of Lexington in September ...
Joseph Hull went to sea as a midshipman in 1813. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1815, to commander in 1841, captain in 1855 and to commodore in 1862. On July 16, 1862, he was released from active duty to assume the duties as Superintendent of Gunboat Construction in St. Louis, Missouri. Together with Edward ...
Richard Hulse mustered into the 11th Missouri State Militia Cavalry on November 1, 1862, as a first lieutenant, and was assigned the duties of adjutant. When the 11th and 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry Regiments were consolidated on December 31, 1862, Hulse was promoted to captain and assumed command of Company H. On ...
Jacob Humphrey enlisted on August 1, 1861, and was mustered in as a corporal in Company G, 1st Missouri Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks on September 6, 1861; he was appointed sergeant on March 1, 1863. The regiment’s 3rd Battalion (including Company G) participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, and spent the remainder ...
Albert Hunt enlisted as a private in Company C, 3rd Colorado Infantry, but on October 1, 1863, when the 2nd and 3rd Colorado were consolidated to form the 2nd Colorado Cavalry, Hunt became a member of the new regiment’s Company K. Hunt was discharged on January 1, 1864, for promotion to first lieutenant and ...
Drawing of Union General David Hunter’s camp near Tipton, Missouri, drawn by correspondent Alexander Simplot; signed and dated October 15, 1861. The following text, dated October 15, 1861, from Tipton Missouri, appears on the back of the drawing: Mr. John Bonner Dear Sir Enclosed please find a sketch representing the encampments of the Divisions of Major General Hunter ...
Charles Hutchins enlisted on February 10, 1862, in Company G, 13th Connecticut Infantry as a private. He was promoted to sergeant on May 20, 1862, and to first sergeant on August 6, 1863; he was reduced to private on September 23, 1863. The 13th participated in numerous actions in Louisiana, including the siege ...
