“View of the river—a part of our camp in the foreground and Port Hudson in the distance,” is handwritten on the front of the stereoview. “This photograph, titled ‘Confederate forts that held the steep river banks at Port Hudson, 1863,’ is shown in Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War (1911), 2: 179,’” is ...
Undated photograph of the Signal Corps Quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Fort Leavenworth is located in northeast Kansas, just west of Kansas City; built in 1827, it is the oldest active military installation west of the Missouri River. During the Civil War, Leavenworth was used as a mustering and training area for Kansas ...
William R. Simms was born in Clark County, Ohio, on August 14, 1833. He moved to the Kansas Territory in 1855, and to Harrison County, Missouri, the following year. Simms was a schoolteacher in Butler Township, Harrison County when the Civil War began. Simms enlisted in Company E, 23rd Missouri Infantry on August 3, 1861, at ...
Henry Simons of Holton, Kansas, a native of Oswego, New York, enlisted in Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on July 16, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was promoted to second lieutenant on November 11, 1862, and assigned to Company E. The 5th Kansas Cavalry fought in the 1863 battles of Helena and Pine Bluff, and ...
Samuel Simpson was born on December 7, 1830, in St. Louis, Missouri; with the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a first lieutenant and served as adjutant of the 3rd U. S. Reserve Corps, Missouri Infantry. Promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 12th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in April 1862, Simpson resigned ...
Abraham Slingerland enlisted on October 8, 1861, at Carthage, Illinois, and was mustered into the 7th Missouri Cavalry (also known as the Black Hawk Cavalry) on December 31, 1861, as a bugler. On January 1, 1863, he was promoted to second lieutenant and assigned to Company M. Promoted to first lieutenant on October ...
William M. Smalley was born in Mansfield, Nottingham, England, in March 1833 (some sources state 1834). He came to the United States in 1840. In March 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company K, 6th Kansas Cavalry, but was promoted to sergeant the same day. Promoted again to first sergeant in December 1862, ...
George Smith enlisted as a private in Company F, 1st Iowa Infantry on April 23, 1861, and was mustered into service on May 14, 1861; he mustered out on August 21, 1861, after fighting in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. On September 25, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, 4th Iowa Cavalry as second ...
Giles Smith joined Company D, 8th Missouri Infantry as a captain on June 14, 1861; the regiment was commanded by his brother, Colonel Morgan L. Smith. In the summer of 1862, following the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, Giles Smith was promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel, succeeding his brother as regimental ...
Ira Smith mustered into the 9th Minnesota Infantry on August 19, 1862, as a private; on November 27, 1862, he was transferred to the non-commissioned staff as sergeant-major. The 9th Minnesota Infantry saw service in Minnesota before being assigned to duty as railroad guards in Missouri. On February 15, 1864, Smith was discharged in order ...
John Smith, a native of Washington County, Ohio, and a resident of Crawfordville, Iowa, enlisted as a private in Company I, 25th Iowa Infantry on August 1, 1862; he was mustered into service on August 28, 1862. On January 11, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post), Arkansas. ...
John Smith enlisted as a private in Company H, 18th Missouri Infantry on October 21, 1862, at Columbia, Missouri. He saw action at Corinth, Kennesaw Mountain, during Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” and at Bentonville. He was promoted to second lieutenant on June 16, 1865, and assigned to Company K. Smith was ...
Morgan Smith was born on March 8, 1822, in Oswego County, New York; in 1843 he settled in Indiana. At the start of the Civil War, Smith raised the 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry and was elected its colonel in 1861. He was in command of a brigade at the capture of Fort Donelson ...
Undated post-Civil War photograph of William Sparks, possibly taken in the early 1880s; Sparks has a miniature metal Grand Army of the Republic medal on his vest lapel and a reunion medal on his coat. Sparks, a native of Wilkes County, North Carolina, and resident of Mercer County, Missouri, joined Company E, 12th Missouri Cavalry ...
