Frances L. Clayton, who dressed like a male, reputedly enlisted with her husband in a Missouri regiment in the fall of 1861. In order to disguise her gender, she took to the manly vices of drinking, smoking, chewing and gambling, and was described as an “accomplished horseman.” She fought alongside her husband at the Battle ...
Carte-de-Visite by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31729
Carte-de-Visite by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library / Rare Books
Carte-de-Visites by Samuel Masury, Boston, Mass. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31729 Image Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library / Rare Books
Francis Marion Cockrell was born October 1, 1834, near Warrensburg, Missouri; he graduated from Chapel Hill College in 1853, and became a lawyer in 1855. With the start of the Civil War, Cockrell raised a company for the Missouri State Guard and fought at Carthage and Wilson’s Creek. Early in 1862, he transferred ...
Born in May 1832 near Warrensburg, Missouri, Jeremiah Vardman Cockrell joined the Missouri State Guard when the Civil War began, and served as an officer in the 8th Division at the battles of Carthage, Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. He was commissioned a captain in the 5th Missouri Battalion in early 1862, but retired when ...
Frederick Cole originally enlisted in the 13th Illinois Infantry, but transferred to Company E of Wood’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion to fill a lieutenant’s vacancy. He joined Company K of the 6th Missouri Cavalry on January 1, 1862, when the battalion was merged with the 6th Missouri; he was officially mustered into that unit on ...
George Washington Collamore, born on April 1, 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts, studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk County bar in 1852. He formed a partnership with future Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew which lasted until 1856. An abolitionist, Collamore moved his family to Kansas in 1856, and became the agent of the New ...
William Colvin (on left) was born in Lafayette County, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1840, while his brother John was probably born in 1841. William enlisted as a private in Company G, 59th Ohio Infantry, on October 2, 1861. He was captured at the Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, and interned in Richmond, Virginia. ...
Cornelius Comegys was born in 1834. On March 23, 1863, he enlisted and was mustered into Company B, 19th Iowa Infantry, as a private. On March 23, 1864, he transferred to Company A, 29th Iowa Infantry. The 19th Iowa Infantry fought at Prairie Grove and the siege of Vicksburg; the 29th Iowa ...
In 1867, the Springfield National Cemetery was established because of the critical need for suitable burial space for the remains of men who fell at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek and in other battles and skirmishes in southwest Missouri. In 1870, the Confederate cemetery was established on a four-acre tract adjoining the National Cemetery, but separated ...
Carte-de-Viste by Unknown Photographer Images Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 00883
Carte-de-Viste by Unknown Photographer Images Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 00882
Carte-de-visite taken in Mexico, probably in early 1866, showing five former Confederate generals who left the United States following the Civil War. Standing in the rear (left to right) are John Bankhead Magruder and William P. Hardeman. Seated (left to right) are Henry W. Allen, Sterling Price, and Thomas C. Hindman. Eventually ...
