Category: Military

Revelations of a Soldier’s Life

by Samuel C. Broughton, Sgt Co. I, 21st Illinois Infantry I first enlisted at Robinson, Illinois, April 27th, 1861, for three months. Was mustered at Mattoon, Illinois into Co I, Seventh Ill, afterwards 21st, Ill. We held an...

Read More

First Missouri Confederate Brigade

Short history of the First Missouri Confederate Brigade December, 1861, Brigade organized in Osceola, Missouri March 7-8, 1862, Battle of Elk Horn Tavern (Pea Ridge) April 1862, Missouri Brigade transfers to the east side of the...

Read More

Price’s Commissary Department

PRICE’S COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT. The capture of Lexington by Price’s army was a crushing blow to Fremont’s ambition. He had permitted a disorderly mass of citizen soldiers to defy his army of occupation. Something had to be done...

Read More

Retaliation in Missouri

Report Provost-Marshal General, March 17, 1866. Mess. and Doc., 1865—66, Part III., p. 63. 3 It is proper to mention that this retaliatory action was under the authority of the State of Missouri. General Curtis, commanding the...

Read More

Confederate Dead of Marion County Missouri

The St. Louis Republic is giving a list of those from Missouri who died in the Confederate Service.  The following regarding Marion County people will be of interest to our readers. Co. K Lieutenant Wm. Shumate, Palmyra, Mo,...

Read More
Loading