from Cape Girardeau and Pilot Knob o Pocahontas, Ark. After Jackson was escorted from the lines, Lyon began a pursuit of Jackson and Price and his elected state government through the Battle of Boonville and Battle of Carthage (1861). In September 1864 he was commissioned major of his regiment, but was never mustered as such because of the depletion of the regiment to less than 500 effective men. Since Missouri had remained in the Union, it did not see an outside military occupation similar to that seen by other slave states during the Reconstruction era. In the intervening time, the state endured widespread guerrilla warfare in which Southern partisan rangers and bushwhackers battled Kansas-based irregulars known as Jayhawkers and Redlegs or "Redleggers" (from the red gaiters they wore around their lower legs) and their Union allies. For ten years he was the attorney for the St. Louis School Board and for four years was a member of that body, serving as its vice president. Union loss, 4 killed. Scout from Warrensburg to Greenton Valley, Skirmish, Cypress Swamp, near Cape Girardeau, Expeditions from Cape Girardeau and Dallas to St. Francis River, Mo., and Cherokee Bay, Ark.. with skirmishes, Skirmish, McCartney's Mills, on Big Piney, Exp. In 1851, back in St. Louis, he married Eliza Brown Graham, the daughter of Major Richard Graham. MISSOURI--Bowen's Battalion Cavalry. Skirmish, Underwood's Farm, near Bird's Point. MISSOURI--Enrolled Militia. However, Price was unable to repeat his victorious 1861 campaigns in the state. Civil War Confederate Pension Records Online - ThoughtCo In the United States presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln received only 10 percent of Missouri's votes, while 71 percent favored either John Bell or Stephen A. Douglas, both of whom wanted to maintain the status quo. The order applied to farmers regardless of loyalty, although those who could prove their loyalty to the Union could stay in designated towns and those who could not were exiled entirely. MISSOURI--46th and 70th Enrolled Militia (Detachments). While both rose to the rank of general, Sigel used public support to pressure superiors for promotions eventually proving his ineptness, while Osterhaus rose steadily in rank based on real battlefield accomplishments, flying under the radar of most in the public. Skirmish, Lane's Prairie, Marias County.. MISSOURI--State Militia (Detachment). White describes the following event, saying, I thought our men in the rear were being shot down by the raking fire of the rebelsas to this I cannot testify. His unit fired upon the crowd, resulting in the death and injury of several in the crowd. from Springfield into Arkansas and Indian Territory, Expedition from Pilot Knob to Oregon County, and to Pocohontas, Ark. Union loss, 2 wounded. MISSOURI--35th Enrolled Militia (Detachment Co. "I"). Exp. Deploying wet hemp bales as mobile breastworks, the rebel advance was shielded from fire, including heated shot. A combined force of over 12,000 Confederate soldiers, Arkansas State Troops, and Missouri State Guardsmen under Confederate Brigadier Benjamin McCulloch fought approximately 5,400 Federals in a punishing six-hour battle. 2011 The Missouri History Museum. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Washington, DC. Exp. At Cowskin Prairie, Burbridge was elected captain of the Jackson Guards and within days appointed colonel of the 1st Infantry, 3ird Division, Missouri State Guard. 2,489,836 white soldiers 178,975 African American soldiers 3,530 Native American troops Enlistment strength for the Confederate Army ranges from 750,000 to 1,227,890. Missouri State Archives Finding Aid 998.456 Manuscript Collections James Sullivan Civil War Collection Abstract: Photographs, letters, documents, books and reunion ribbons for Civil War soldiers and units, primarily from Missouri. View history This is a list of regiments from Missouri that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The delegates voted to stay in the Union and supported the neutrality position. MISSOURI--State Militia; Civilians and Contraband. Douglas won the Missouri vote over Bellone of only two states Douglas carried, the other being New Jerseywith the remaining 19 percent siding with Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. They served in the Union Army, the Confederate Army, and in Missouri militias. They served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865. from Independence to Greenton, Chapel Hill, Hopewell, etc, Skirmishes near Pike Creek and Eleven Points. The other federal arsenal in Missouri, Liberty Arsenal, had been captured on April 20 by secessionist militias and, concerned by widespread reports that Governor Jackson intended to use the Missouri Volunteer Militia to also attack the St. Louis Arsenal and capture its 39,000 small arms, Secretary of War Simon Cameron ordered Lyon (by that time in acting command) to evacuate the majority of the munitions out of the state. MISSOURI--Hawkins' Indpt. Small remnants of the Missouri Guard remained in the state and fought isolated battles throughout the war. "Refusal to do so would bring an occupying force of federal soldiers into their counties. Faces of Union Soldiers at Culp's Hill: Gettysburg's Critical Defense Lt. Coudrey distinguished himself at the Battle of Kirksville, MO, by taking a squad of troopers into the town to draw fire from Confederates hiding in the buildings. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war. Skirmishes, Wentzville, Northern Missouri R. R. MISSOURI--Reserve Corps, Cavalry (Co. "A"). Scout from Cape Girardeau to Doniphan and Pocohontas, Ark, Scout from Pilot Knob to Alton and Doniphan, Scout from Neosho to Shoal and Turkey Creeks, Scout in Reynolds, Shannon and Oregon Counties, Exp. At about 5:00 am on the 10th, Lyon, in two columns commanded by himself and Col. Franz Sigel, attacked the Confederates on Wilson's Creek about 12 miles southwest of Springfield. MISSOURI--Fremont's Body Guard; White's Prairie Scouts. MISSOURI--13th State Militia Cavalry. The next day, the Missouri General Assembly authorized the formation of a Missouri State Guard with Major General Sterling Price as its commander to supposedly resist invasions from either side. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, prison . Almost every American would have known friends, family members, or neighbors who marched off to war, many never to return. St. Louis river salvage expert and engineering genius James Buchanan Eads[14] won a contract to build a fleet of shallow-draft ironclads for use on the western rivers. Many battles and skirmishes were fought within Missouri itself. Charles Michel, a physician specializing in ophthalmology, was born and educated in Charleston, South Carolina, but was working in Paris, France, until 1860, when U.S. politics were becoming heated. The Missouri - Kansas border area was fertile ground for the outbreak of guerrilla warfare when the Civil War erupted in 1861. Colored Troops. In 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision, ruling not only that slaves were not automatically made free simply by entering a free state, but more controversially that no one of African ancestry was considered a U.S. citizen and therefore that African-Americans could not initiate legal action in any court, even when they clearly had what would otherwise be a valid claim. While various forces battled inconclusively for southwest Missouri, a unique cooperative effort between the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and civilian resources built a war-winning brown-water navy. Rebel cavalry received the first blow and fell back away from Bloody Hill. The Confederates lost 1,200 men. Soldier Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service) The violence along the KansasMissouri border foreshadowed the national violence to come, and indeed continued throughout the Civil War. MISSOURI--34th Enrolled Militia (Detachment). He then returned to Honey Creek, Oklahoma, to rebuild his home. MISSOURI--7th Provisional Enrolled Militia. [5] In addition to planning to seize the federal arsenal at St. Louis, Jackson conspired with senior Missouri bankers to illegally divert money from the banks to arm state troops, a measure that the Missouri General Assembly had so far refused to take. The provisional Missouri government began organizing new pro-Union regiments. For all anyone knew, it would force Lincoln to accept the South's independence, in light of earlier rebel victories. By early afternoon on the 20th, the rolling fortification had advanced close enough for the Southerners to take the Union works in a final rush. ", Potter, Marguerite. Expedition from Rolla against Freeman's Forces, Expedition from Bird's Point. This led to major dissatisfaction among many politically important groups, and provided opportunities for reactionary elements in the state. Union loss, 9 killed, 9 wounded. Mr. Elijah Magoffin, a wealthy farmer who resided near Hughesville, Missouri, served as a Confederate soldier until close to the end of the war. General Watie would be the last Confederate general to surrender, on June 23, 1865, two months after the Battle of Appomattox. The compromise was that Maine would enter the Union as a free state to balance Missouri. Reconnoissance from Cape Girardeau to Jackson, Whitewater. This led to Confederate sympathizers taking over most of Missouri, with pro-Unionists being harassed and forced to leave. Exp. The Missouri Supreme Court database provides an index and abstract of the criminal and civil court cases that were appealed to the territorial and state Supreme Court of Missouri up to 1861, and a partial listing of cases to 1871. Skirmish, Post Oak Creek, Mouth of Briar. John Q. Burbridge was a 31-year-old resident of Louisiana, Missouri, when the Civil War began. Clayton was wounded at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and fought alongside her husband at the Battle of Stones River until he was killed just steps away from her.
