Kentucky native Austin Rawlings mustered into Company L, 1st Missouri Cavalry in 1861, as a corporal; he was promoted to first sergeant and assigned to Company B on May 6, 1862, promoted to second lieutenant on February 16, 1865, and to first lieutenant on April 18, 1865, all with Company B. The 1st Missouri ...
Post-Civil War photograph of Olivia Ray, daughter of John and Roxanna Ray; Olivia was born on May 22, 1855, and was six years old when the Battle of Wilson’s Creek was fought on her family’s farm on August 10, 1861. Olivia and her siblings took refuge in the cellar of their house during the ...
Rhoda Ray was born a slave about 1837; she and her children were owned by John Ray. She was referred to as “Aunt Rhoda” by the Ray family, and she and the children worked on the Ray farm. During the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, on August 10, 1861, Rhoda and her children initially sought shelter ...
David Reed enlisted on August 15, 1862, and was mustered into Company B, 12th Kansas Infantry on September 25, 1862, at Paola, Kansas. The 12th Kansas Infantry fought at Newtonia, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove, participated in the capture of Fort Smith, then performed garrison duty at Fort Smith and Little Rock. Reed mustered out ...
English or Welsh-born Richard Rees, a resident of Oquawka, Illinois, enlisted in Company F, 16th Illinois Infantry on May 24, 1861. On July 28, 1862, then Sergeant Rees was mustered in as first lieutenant of Company B, 21st Missouri Infantry; he was promoted to captain and company commander on February 1, 1865. The 21st Missouri ...
J. P. Renwick was born on November 12, 1838; a native of La Grange, Georgia, he attended and graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort. He enlisted in the 3rd Louisiana Infantry in May 1861 at New Orleans and became the regiment’s sergeant major. The 3rd Louisiana Infantry was part of General Benjamin McCulloch’s ...
Joel Richardson enlisted as a private in Company I, 18th Missouri Infantry on November 14, 1861; he was later promoted to first sergeant in March 1864 and to second lieutenant in July 1864; in June 1865 he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to Company C. He was mustered out on July ...
John Francis Ritter of Pennsylvania graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1856 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry. He served in Utah and New Mexico, and after the start of the Civil War was transferred to the 15th U.S. Infantry. He fought at ...
New York native Abel C. Roberts graduated from the University of Michigan medical school in 1853. He moved to Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1859 and became the editor of a Democratic newspaper. When the Civil War began, Roberts served as a contract surgeon in the military hospitals in Keokuk, Iowa. Appointed to ...
Stewart Robinson of Rising Sun, Iowa, was 26 years old when he enlisted in the 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 1, 1862; he was mustered into Company C on August 28, 1862. He was wounded on May 17, 1863, at Black River Bridge, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign; after he recovered he returned to ...
James Rogers mustered into the 45th Missouri Infantry as assistant surgeon, for a period of one year, on August 25, 1864, at Warrensburg, Missouri. The regiment was assigned to Jefferson City during General Sterling Price’s 1864 Missouri raid, then participated in the Battle of Nashville, and garrison duty in Tennessee. Rogers was mustered out of ...
William Rogers, a native of Osage County, Missouri, enlisted in St. Louis on April 9, 1864, as a private in Company I, 10th Missouri Cavalry. During his service with the regiment, the 10th fought at the battles of Brice’s Crossroads and Tupelo, and pursued General Sterling Price during his 1864 Missouri raid. On July 25, ...
German-born Henry Rose, a resident of Fort Madison, Iowa, enlisted in Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry on April 23, 1861, and was mustered into service on May 14, 1861. Wounded in the head at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, he was mustered out of the regiment on August 21, 1861. Rose ...
Born on September 6, 1819 in Delaware County, Ohio, William Rosecrans graduated from West Point in 1842 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. After supervising several construction projects and serving as an instructor at West Point, he resigned from the army in 1854 and became a businessman in Cincinnati. When the Civil War ...
