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 ...
Irish-born Joseph Kelly, a veteran of the British Army and St. Louis grocer, became captain of the Washington Blues militia company in 1857. In May 1861, Kelly was ordered to take his company to Jefferson City as an escort for arms and gunpowder, thereby avoiding the so-called “Camp Jackson Massacre.” Kelly and his ...
James Kennerly and his brothers Lewis and Samuel, from St. Louis, were members of the Missouri State Militia, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on June 22, 1861, ...
Lewis Kennerly was one of three brothers (James and Samuel) from St. Louis who were captured at Camp Jackson, where U.S. Captain Nathaniel Lyon forced the surrender of the militia encampment on the edge of St. Louis on May 10, 1861. When they were paroled, all three joined the 1st Missouri Infantry on ...
Eugene Kent enlisted on September 5, 1862, and was mustered into Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry on September 15, 1862, as a private. In September 1863 he was promoted to corporal; on August 22, 1864, he received a discharge for promotion to first lieutenant with Company D, 18th U. S. Colored Infantry. Kent ...
Albert Kessler enlisted on August 22, 1862, and was mustered into Company G, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 15, 1862, as a private. Kessler was promoted later to first sergeant and assigned to Company K; he was promoted to first lieutenant on February 19, 1865. He was slightly wounded during the Battle of ...
James Lawlor Kiernan was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1837. He graduated from the New York University Academy of Medicine in 1857, and when the Civil War began, served with the 69th New York at the Battle of First Bull Run. After service on General John C. Fremont’s staff, Kiernan was commissioned ...
Edward Killian (Kilian) enlisted on November 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company A, 17th Missouri Infantry on December 1, 1862, as a private. On September 10, 1863, he was promoted to sergeant major and assigned to the regimental non-commissioned staff. The 17th Missouri Infantry was organized in St. Louis by the German-American “Turner” Society ...
David Kimmel enlisted in Company K, 10th Missouri Infantry on September 16, 1861, at Macon City, Missouri. On July 25, 1862, he was assigned duties as a nurse at the hospital in Corinth, Mississippi; left behind to treat the wounded at the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, Kimmel was captured on May 26, 1863. ...
