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UNION AND CONFEDERATE VETERANS PAGE
OF CHARITON, LINN AND MACON COUNTIES
I created this page to record the veterans that served from these
counties during the Civil War in the interests of Genealogy.
| SUBMITTER: Willard Smith E-Mail Address: [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON SERVICE : UNION VETERANS NAME : William Marion Smith RANK : PVT UNIT : Co H, 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry BURIED AT : Salisbury City Cemetery, Salisbury, Missouri |
William Marion Smith was born November 20, 1836 in Morgan county, Illinois and died at his home near Hamden, Missouri on March 20, 1910. He enlisted in Co. H, 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry at Columbia, Missouri on February 15th, 1862 and was wounded near a farmers residence at Fayette, Missouri in September 1864 and discharged on August the 27th, 1865 at Macon, Missouri. |
| SUBMITTER : Willard Smith E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON SERVICE : UNION VETERANS NAME : George W. Smith RANK : PVT, Bugler UNIT : Co H, 9th Missouri State Militia Calvary BURIED AT : Muscle Fork Cemetery, Muscle fork, Missouri |
George served as a bugler in the same Calvary unit as his brother, William M. Smith from 15 Feb 1962 until 27 April 1865. From the Adjutant General's Office; George M. Smith was enrolled on 15 February 1862 at Glasgow, Missouri and mustered into service on the 28th day of April 1862 at Columbia, Missouri and mustered out of service on the 27th of April 1865 at Macon City, Missouri. No evidence of disability. In the 1890 Special Union Veterans Census he reported only a general disability, not noted whether it was service related. |
| SUBMITTER : Willard Smith E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON SERVICE : UNION VETERANS NAME : Joseph Smith RANK : PVT UNIT : Company B, 42nd Missouri Infantry BURIED AT : Muscle Fork Cemetery, Muscle Fork, Missouri |
Joseph Smith, my great great-grandfather and the father of William M. Smith and George W. Smith enlisted on 29 September 1864 and was discharged on 28 June 1865. The 42nd Missouri seems to have been a hastily organized unit that was formed in the wake of General Sterling Price's invasion of Missouri. |
| SUBMITTER : Rose Mary Lawson E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON SERVICE : UNION VETERANS NAME : Thomas H. White RANK : Private UNIT : Co D 123rd Regt. Ill Infantry Vol. BURIED AT : Mattoon, Illinois |
Served from Aug 9, 1862 to July 9, 1865. |
| SUBMITTER : Rose Mary Lawson E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON SERVICE : UNION VETERANS NAME : James Wesley Lavis Jr RANK : private UNIT : Co G 73rd Regt Ill. Inf. Vol, BURIED AT : Rushville, Ill |
Inducted June 13, 1862 suffered gunshot wound in
left thigh Sep 20, 1863, wounded in battle of Chickamanga. Discharged at Albany New York June 29, 1865 |
| SUBMITTER : Velma L Scott E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : CHARITON VETERANS NAME : Francis Marion Brewer RANK : UNIT : Co. A. 18th Missouri Regiment MO Volunteers BURIED AT : Mount Pleasant Cematary |
He was in for four years and was honorably discharged. He also was a prisoner of Andersonville at the end of the war. |
| SUBMITTER : Rhonda Reed Bellar E-Mail Address : [email protected] VETERANS NAME : Moses J Reed RANK : private UNIT : Co H 11th regiment Mo cavalry BURIED AT : 9 Mar 1924 Anaconda Cem, Franklin Co, MO |
Moses J Reed was under the command of Frank H
Robinson. It is also alleged that while on duty in the territory of Arizona during the winter of 1863-64 he was disabled by rheumatism, piles and rupture in the right side. Moses was honorably discharged at New Orleans, LA the 27 July, 1865 |
| SUBMITTER : Joseph Blinn E-Mail Address : [email protected] SERVICEe : CONFEDERATE VETERANS NAME : Ephraim Allison RANK : Captain UNIT : Co. I, 16th MO Regiment BURIED AT : Henry County |
Entered the MO State Militia in 1862 and served actively until the spring of 1863, but continued with the command until the end of the war. He was a private at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Carthage and Lexington. In August of 1862, was elected to Captain under Col. Sidney Jackman's command. Then fought in the battle of Lone Jack, where he was shot through the shoulder during the ensuing house to house fighting. His later service is sketchy. I believe he recruited along the Mo. River Counties with a small group of about 30 men. Basically partisan rangers, not attached to any regular outfit, therefore receiving no quarter from the enemy and giving none as well. Pretty much viewed as outlaws or killers. At the end of hostilities he went to Texas for fear of retribution for his somewhat tarnished service. But returned to Missouri in 1867 and began a dry goods business in Clinton, Mo. Was elected to Presiding Judge of Henry Co. in 1881-83. While filling in as a prison guard at the Mo. State Pen. in Jefferson City in Nov. of 1905 he was shot and killed by a group of escaping prisoners. He was 75 years old. |
| SUBMITTER : Colleen Campbell Taylor E-Mail Address : [email protected] COUNTY : MACON VETERANS NAME : Lewis Woodson Campbell RANK : UNIT : Co.B of the 42nd Missouri Infantry BURIED AT : Pleasant Home Cemetery |
| SUBMITTER : Unk E-Mail Address : Unk VETERANS NAME : Scott Sherman RANK : corp UNIT : Co. E 2nd ohio Cavalry BURIED AT : Stanberry Missouri |
Scott Sherman's family resided in Stanberry
Missouri. I have visisted the grave, but only has a metal marker with no dates, just says Civil War. |
| Submitter Jean Goff E-mail Address [email protected] COUNTY CHARITON SERVICE CONFEDERATE VETERANS NAME Taylor Jones RANK Private UNIT Capt. Clark's Co.D. Gordon's 5th MO Calvery BURIED AT Frog Bayou, Arkansas |
Taylor Jones enlisted Nov.1, 1862. Served until taken Prisoner of War at Hot Springs, Ark. on Apr 19, 1864. Confined to Rock Island , Illinois until July 6, 1864 where he enlisted in the Union Army. After the war, Taylor returned to Chariton Co., married Mary Matilda Moxley. He died March 12, 1914 and is buried at Welch Cemetery. |
| Submitter Nancy Englerth E-mail Address [email protected] COUNTY CHARITON SERVICE CONFEDERATE VETERANS NAME Dr. J. J. Grinstead RANK Surgeon UNIT Third Division Missouri State Guard |
Dr. Grinstead is mentioned in several field reports by General John B. Clark as serving the wounded well after several battles in Northern Arkansas. He later practised medicine in Keytesville. |
| Submitter Betty Gene Toney McGee E-mail Address [email protected] SERVICE CONFEDERATE VETERANS NAME John Calvert Toney RANK Captain UNIT 5th Missouri Cavalry/Joseph Shelby's "Iron Brigade" BURIED AT Confederate Cemetery/Fayetteville, Arkansas |
John Calvert Toney fought with Joseph Orville
Shelby. He lived to be 92 and died in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. He surrendered in Little
Rock, Arkansas. His 3rd wife drew a "widow's pension" on him. Her name was Elizabeth White Toney. |
| Submitter Sue Apgar E-mail Address [email protected] COUNTY CHARITON SERVICE CONFEDERATE VETERANS NAME Zachariah Tippett RANK Pvt UNIT Missouri State Guard, Company B BURIED AT Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis Tenn. |
Zachariah, along with his brother Thomas,
enlisted in the State Guard on Oct. 10, 1861. They both fought, among other battles, at
Pea Ridge, where Zach was seemingly wounded. He died in May 1862 in Memphis of "Cong Chill" and is buried there. His brother Thomas returned to Chariton County and formed his own unit of the State Guard, but was otherwise known as a "bushwacker". |