Photograph of Major General Samuel Curtis and eight members of his staff; Curtis is in the center. The photograph was likely taken in 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri, when General Curtis was commander of the Department of the Missouri. Carte-de-Visite by J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30785-F
Columbus Dale enlisted in Company E, 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry in March 1862 and mustered in the following month as a second lieutenant. The 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry, under the command of Colonel George E. Waring Jr., saw action at Pea Ridge, Little Blue River, Byram’s Ford, and Westport. Lieutenant Dale was wounded ...
Eldridge Dawson, from Chicago, Illinois, enlisted as a private in Company E, 7th Kansas Cavalry on August 4, 1861. The regiment was mustered into service on October 28, 1861, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, under the command of Colonel Charles R. Jennison, and became known as “Jennison’s Jayhawkers.” Dawson and the regiment fought at ...
Born on January 20, 1828, near Basil, Fairfield County, Ohio, Rezin A. De Bolt was admitted to the bar in 1856. He moved to Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri, two years later, and continued to practice law. In the spring of 1861, De Bolt was one of many Unionists who, according to a county history, “took the ...
Benjamin Dean mustered into the 26th Missouri Infantry on December 20, 1861, as captain and commander of Company F. On May 28, 1863, he was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the regiment. Prior to joining the 26th Missouri, Dean had been a sergeant in the Franklin County Reserve Corps of the ...
Joseph S. Dean, a native of Kentucky and a merchant in St. Louis, enlisted in Company C, 1st Missouri Infantry (CS) at Memphis, Tennessee, in July 1861 and was soon elected a first lieutenant. In January 1862 he was appointed an acting aide-de-camp to General John S. Bowen in the Army of the Mississippi. ...
William DeGress was born in Prussia and immigrated to the United States from Cologne, Germany, in the mid-1850s. He enlisted in the U. S. Army as a private in 1856, and presumably was mustered out in 1861, although he claimed to have been wounded in the 1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico. He ...
George Washington Deitzler was born on November 30, 1826, in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania; he moved his family to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1855, where he became active in the free-state cause, serving on committees, attending meetings and writing for newspapers. When the Civil War began, Deitzler was appointed colonel of the 1st Kansas Infantry, and was severely ...
Born on May 10, 1832, in Hinesburg, Vermont, William Pitt Deming moved with his family to Kalamazoo County, Michigan, in 1833. After working on his father’s farm, Deming moved to Burlingame, Kansas, in 1860. On September 4, 1862, Deming enlisted as a private in Company I, 11th Kansas Cavalry, in Burlingame, and was mustered into service ...
In 1857, James Denver was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs and secretary of the Kansas Territory by President James Buchanan; in 1858, he was appointed governor of the Kansas Territory, which included the present state of Colorado. In November 1858, William Larimer Jr., a land speculator from Leavenworth, traveled to Arapaho County and founded ...
Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1811, William Dewey entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from Clark County, Indiana in the summer of 1829. Dewey did not graduate from West Point. He was admitted to the Indiana bar about 1836, but left the legal profession to study medicine at the ...
Jefferson Dishman was born on November 13, 1842, in Wayne County, Kentucky. He enlisted in Company H, 4th Missouri State Militia Cavalry on March 17, 1862, in Stewartsville, Missouri. He served with the regiment until mustered out on April 18, 1865. The 4th MSM assisted in the withdrawal of Union troops from the 1862 ...
Archibald Dobbins was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1827; after marrying in 1850, he moved to Phillips County, Arkansas, where he became a successful planter. In 1862, when Helena, Arkansas, was occupied by Union forces, Dobbins sent his wife and children back to Tennessee and joined the staff of fellow Phillips County resident Major General ...
In the fall of 1861, Theodore Dodd recruited an independent company of Colorado volunteers. His unit was mustered into service in early 1862 as part of the 2nd Colorado Infantry, and proceeded to New Mexico, where Dodd led his command in the Battle of Valverde. In 1863 the 2nd Colorado was ordered east, and took ...
