Thomas Duvall (left) and William Duvall (right), along with their brother Henderson, enlisted in Company C, 3rd Missouri Infantry [in the 1st Missouri Brigade] on December 10, 1861, at Richmond, Missouri, after serving with the Missouri State Guard at Wilson’s Creek and Lexington. William was promoted to junior second lieutenant on May 8, 1862.
The Duvall brothers fought at Pea Ridge, Farmington, Iuka and Corinth. On October 4, 1862, Lieutenant William Duvall was killed during the Confederate attack on Corinth, while trying to plant the Confederate flag on the Union fortifications. Lieutenant Colonel Finley L. Hubbell, 3rd Missouri Infantry, recorded in his diary that William died waving his sword and shouting “Victory.”
Thomas Duvall and his brother Henderson were later killed at Champion Hill, Mississippi, on May 16, 1863.
James A. Anderson was an eighteen-year-old farmer from Morgan County, Illinois, when he enlisted at St. Louis for three years in Company I, 11th Missouri Infantry on March 28, 1864. During his enlistment, the 11th Missouri participated in the Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi on July 14-15, 1864, and pursed Confederate General Sterling Price through Missouri. After the Battle of Nashville, the 11th saw service at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, Alabama.
Anderson was mustered out of service on January 15, 1866.
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. Dean was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and died a few days later in Memphis, Tennessee.
Group photograph of four company officers of the 5th U. S. Volunteer Infantry, identified by number. The 5th was composed of former Confederate prisoners of war who enlisted in U.S. regiments to fight Native Americans. Organized at Alton and Camp Douglas (Chicago), Illinois, from March to May 1865, the regiment moved to Fort Leavenworth and was assigned to duty in the District of Upper Arkansas and Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and the Plains. The 5th was mustered out of service in November 1866.
#1 Captain Barnabas D. Palmer, Company K, enlisted on April 18, 1865 and was mustered out on July 3, 1866. He had prior service in Company K, 3rd Kansas Infantry and Company C, 9th Kansas Cavalry. He died on October 18, 1880, in Lawrence, Kansas.
#2 2nd Lieutenant A. Covell Dutcher, Company A, enlisted on April 3, 1865; in February 1866 he suffered a gunshot wound from an unknown person while on detached duty in Denver, Colorado Territory, and died on April 24, 1866, from complications of the wound. He had prior service in Company A, 66th Illinois Infantry.
#3 Captain Thomas Mower McDougall, Company B, enlisted on June 2, 1865, was discharged on August 10, 1866, and enlisted in the Regular Army; during the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, as part of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, McDougall escorted the regimental pack train and fought under Major Marcus Reno’s command after Custer’s death. McDougall had prior service in Company B, 48th U.S. Colored Infantry. He died in Hubberton, Vermont, on July 3, 1909.
#4 2nd Lieutenant Howard Williams, Company B, enlisted on June 4, 1865 and was mustered out on October 11, 1866. He had prior service in Company E, 42nd Ohio Infantry and the 80th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps.
Photograph of Captain Thomas Abel (left) and Lieutenant William O. Kretzinger, officers in the 56th U. S. Colored Infantry.
Thomas Abel was born in Canada on February 15, 1837; he enlisted as a private in Company A, 4th Iowa Cavalry on September 9, 1861, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and was assigned to General Samuel Curtis as an orderly and clerk. He was discharged from the 4th Iowa by General Scofield on August 11, 1863, to accept a commission as a captain in the 56th U. S. Colored Infantry.
Abel mustered into the 56th U. S. Colored Infantry as captain of Company B on August 12, 1863, at St. Louis, Missouri. On June 16, 1865, he was assigned duties as provost marshal for the Department of Arkansas. On December 4, 1865, he was transferred to Company I, and later detached to the Freedmen’s Bureau, Department of Arkansas.
He was mustered out of service on November 5, 1866, at Little Rock, Arkansas, and returned to Iowa.
William O. Kretzinger, a native of Maryland and resident of Black Jack, Douglas County, Kansas, enlisted in Company C, 4th Kansas Infantry in July 1861. When the 10th Kansas was organized from the 3rd and 4th Kansas in April 1862, Kretzinger became a sergeant in Company A. When the 56th United States Colored Infantry was organized in St. Louis as the 3rd Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) in August and September 1863, Kretzinger became a lieutenant in that regiment. On July 26, 1864, the 56th was involved in a battle at Wallace’s Ferry, Big Creek, Arkansas, near Helena. Kretzinger served as Lieutenant Colonel Moses Reed’s aide, and “behaved in a brave and gallant manner.” He resigned
from the army on July 18, 1865, as a first lieutenant.
James Flynt enlisted on May 2, 1862, in Company D, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, at Trenton, Arkansas.
Flynt was killed in action at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee, on December 31, 1862.
Hugh Garland joined the 1st Missouri Infantry as a captain in June 1861; the 1st Missouri Infantry was the first regiment from that state to enter Confederate service. Garland was promoted to major on May 16, 1862. The 1st Missouri Infantry participated in the 1862 battles of Shiloh and Corinth, where they suffered heavy losses; the regiment was consolidated with the 4th Missouri Infantry, becoming the 1st & 4th Missouri Consolidated Infantry [as part of Cockrell's 1st Missouri Brigade].
Major Garland was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 16, 1863, and to colonel and commander of the regiment on May 30, 1864.
Colonel Garland was killed holding the regimental colors during the Army of Tennessee’s assault on Union fortifications at Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864.
John Josey was elected major of the 15th Arkansas Infantry (Cleburne’s-Polk’s-Josey’s) in April 1862, promoted to lieutenant colonel in November 1862, and to colonel the following April; the majority of the regiment’s service was in the Western Theater, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga. In the fall of 1863, Josey was detached on recruiting duty and ordered by the Confederate Secretary of War to report to General Edmund Kirby Smith. He was wounded and captured at the St. Francis River, Arkansas, on February 14, 1864, and spent most of the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio.
He died prematurely, possibly of yellow fever, in Osceola, Florida, in October 1866 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Reuben Kay was born in Dover, Tennessee, in 1838. At the age of 14, he entered the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, graduating in 1858. He then joined his family in St. Joseph, Missouri.
In 1861, Kay joined the Missouri State Guard and served as an aide to Colonel John Taylor Hughes, commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, at Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861.
Later in the war, Kay served as adjutant of the 7th Missouri Cavalry (C.S.), and became assistant adjutant general on the staff of General M. Jeff Thompson. In August 1863 he was captured in Randolph County, Arkansas, and was sent to prison camps in Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Johnson’s Island, Ohio, before being paroled in early 1865.
After the war he returned to St. Joseph, but finding it changed, he moved to Frankfort, Tennessee, and went into the dry goods business.
Rueben Kay died of pneumonia on December 18, 1883, at the age of 44.
Source: http://ozarkscivilwar.org/photographs/
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