★ Parsons, Lewis Baldwin Jr.

Lewis Baldwin Parsons Jr.​

Born: April 5, 1818

Birthplace: Perry, New York

Father: Lewis Baldwin Parsons Sr. 1796 – 1855

(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, New York)​

Mother: Lucina Hoar 1790 – 1873

(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur, New York)​

1st​ Wife: Sarah Green Edwards 1820 – 1850

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

2nd​ Wife: Julie Maria Edwards 1830 – 1857

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

3rd​ Wife: Elizabeth Darrah 1832 – 1887

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

Children:

Lewis Green Parsons 1848 – 1875​

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

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Sarah Parsons 1850 – 1873​

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

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Julia Edwards Parsons 1854 – 1940​

(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​

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Charles Levi Parsons 1856 – 1923​

(Buried: Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado)​

Education:

1840: Graduated from Yale College​

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1844: Graduated from Harvard Law School​

Occupation before War:

1840 – 1844: Teacher​

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1844 – 1854: Attorney in Alton, Illinois​

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1854 – 1861: President of Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company​

Civil War Career:

1861: Captain and Quartermaster​

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1861: Aide to Missouri Brig. General Francis P. Blair Jr.​

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1861 – 1862: in Charge of Canal and River Transport Dept. of Missouri​

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1862: Colonel and Aide to Major General Henry W. Halleck​

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1862: in charge of Canal and River Transport Dept. of Mississippi​

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1862: Aide on the Staff of Major General Samuel R. Curtis​

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1862 – 1863: In charge of Canal and River Transport, Army of Tennessee​

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1863: Aide on the staff of Major General John M. Schofield​

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1863 – 1864: In charge of rail and river transport Military Div. of Mississippi​

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1864 – 1865: Colonel and Quartermaster in the Union Army​

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1865 – 1866: In Charge of river and rail transport Dept. of the Ohio​

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1866: Brigadier General Union Army Volunteers Feb. 23rd​ – April 30th​​

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1866: Mustered out of the Union Army on April 30th​​

Occupation after War:

Director of Railroads and Corporations​

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President of Bank in St. Louis, Missouri​

Died: March 16, 1907

Place of Death: Flora Township, Illinois

Cause of Death: Acute bronchitis and organic heart disease

Age at time of Death: 88 years old

Burial Place: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday (Tuesday) Brig. General Lewis B. Parsons! Salutes remembering General Parsons on his birthday week.

 

[Pollaco]

A biography of Parsons states "one his greatest achievements was the transfer of the Army of the Ohio to the North Carolina coast near the close of the war". Did he really transfer a whole army?