Robert T. Van Horn
Robert T. Van Horn, founder-publisher of the Kansas City Journal and mayor of Kansas City during the war years, served as lieutenant colonel of the 25th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Afterward he represented Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives across three non-consecutive periods (1865-1897) and remained a leading Kansas City civic and Republican Party figure, […]
David Moore
Colonel David Moore commanded Missouri Union militia and the 21st Missouri Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He led a bayonet charge at the Battle of Athens in 1861, was severely wounded at Shiloh (losing his right leg), and fought at Iuka, Corinth, and in the Vicksburg campaign. Brevetted brigadier general in 1865, he later […]
Kenner Garrard
Brigadier General Kenner Garrard commanded the 146th New York Infantry and later the Second Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Mississippi. He fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg before leading cavalry through Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Nashville. He survived the war, resigned in 1866, and settled in Cincinnati as a real estate […]
William H. Heath
Abraham N. Snyder
William Dill
John H. Stibbs
John H. Stibbs rose from captain to lieutenant colonel of the 12th Iowa Infantry, serving through the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and the 1864 engagement at Tupelo, eventually commanding six companies of the regiment. In January 1865 he was summoned to Washington, D.C., to sit on the military commission that tried Confederate Captain […]
William R. Marshall
William Rainey Marshall commanded the 7th Minnesota Infantry as colonel during the 1862 Dakota War and the Civil War’s Price’s Missouri Expedition, taking over brigade command at the Battle of Nashville after Colonel Sylvester Hill was killed. He later led troops at Fort Blakeley during the Mobile campaign, earned a brevet brigadier generalship, and went […]
Sylvester G. Hill (k)
Sylvester G. Hill commanded the 35th Iowa Infantry as colonel, leading troops at the Siege of Vicksburg, the Red River Campaign battles of Pleasant Hill and Yellow Bayou (where he was wounded), and the Battle of Tupelo. Commanding a brigade at the Battle of Nashville, he was killed instantly by Confederate artillery fire on December […]
William B. Britton
William Buckman Britton helped organize the ‘Janesville Fire Zouaves’ in Wisconsin and rose through the ranks of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, commanding the regiment as colonel from October 1864 to September 1865. He served in campaigns including the capture of Jackson, Mississippi, the Red River Campaign, and the Battle of Nashville. After the war he […]