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 […]
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 Dill
Abraham N. Snyder
William H. Heath
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 […]
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 […]