Dr. Caleb Winfrey graduated from the Medical Department of St. Louis University in 1847 and settled in Lone Jack, Missouri, where he established his medical practice. In 1861 he enlisted as a surgeon in the Missouri State Guard, and accompanied Colonel Gideon Thompson to Cowskin Prairie. He was present at the battles of ...
Thomas Witt enlisted on February 1, 1862, as a second lieutenant and was assigned to the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery K; on September 26, 1862, he was detailed as the regiment’s quartermaster. He was promoted to first lieutenant on October 22, 1863, and re-assigned to Battery L. The 1st Missouri Light Artillery fought in ...
David Wood was born on August 25, 1851 to Samuel and Margaret Wood, at Mount Gilead, Ohio. In 1854, Samuel moved his family to the Kansas Territory to help the “Free Staters” keep slavery out of the region. In April 1861, Samuel raised a company for the 2nd Kansas Infantry and served as their captain. ...
Gilbert Woodworth, a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted and mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861, as a private; he was promoted to corporal on April 8, 1862. The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized from July 1861 to January 1862 at Leavenworth, Kansas; the regiment fought in the ...
In the 1860 U.S. Census, Edward Wray is listed as a native of Pennsylvania, 21 years old, a clerk (possibly working for merchant Joseph W. McClurg), and living in a boarding house in Linn Creek, Camden County, Missouri. Wray married Cornelia Murphy on January 8, 1861, in Linn Creek. He was mustered into service as captain ...
Joseph Birtley Wright, a minister and native of Randolph County, Missouri, was a resident of Pettis County when he enlisted in the Confederate army on January 1, 1862, in Springfield, Missouri. He served as a private in Company G, 5th Missouri Infantry and participated in several actions, then was promoted to chaplain of the ...
Photograph of John Wyland in Masonic vest and apron, probably when he served as the Missouri Grand Lodge as district deputy grand master. Wyland was a member of United Lodge No. 5, Springfield, Missouri; he demitted (resigned from) that lodge on November 15, 1866 and transferred to Perseverance Lodge No. 92 in Louisiana, Missouri. ...
Jerome Yarbrough was born in December 1837 in Giles County, Tennessee. By 1850 he had moved to Greene County, Missouri. When the Civil War began, Yarbrough enlisted in the Greene County Home Guards. Mustered out of that unit, he enlisted on August 19, 1861, at Rolla, Missouri and was mustered into ...
Theodore Yates, a native of Herkimer County, New York, was born on September 25, 1832. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his parents in 1841. In 1849, he relocated to St. Louis and engaged in a “mercantile business.” Yates was commissioned captain of Company H, 1st Missouri Infantry on April 25, 1861. ...
Born in Szatmar, Hungary, in 1826, Charles Zagonyi served as a first lieutenant in the Hungarian army and was captured fighting the Austrians during his nation's failed bid for independence in 1848-49. After the war, Zagonyi fled to Turkey, then England, before finally sailing ...
Charles Zagonyi is leaning on a sword and standing next to a pedestal holding a flag; the flag was presented to his command by Jessie Benton Fremont, the general’s wife. Carte-de-Visite by E. Anthony, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30649
Carte-de-Visite by George B. Rockwood, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30648
Carte-de-Visite by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, N.Y. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 32031
Carte-de-Visite by L. Prang & Co., Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31624
