Charles S. Parrish
Charles S. Parrish is recorded with the rank of Colonel during the American Civil War. A Find A Grave memorial for a Charles Sherman Parrish (1830-1907) surfaced as a possible match, but the page could not be accessed to verify regiment, battles, or service details, so no confirmed unit or fate could be established from […]
Cicero Maxwell
Cicero Maxwell is recorded with the rank of Colonel during the American Civil War. Extensive searching, including Wikipedia, Find A Grave, and the National Park Service’s Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, did not locate a confirmed regiment, state affiliation, battles, or fate for this individual, suggesting he was an obscure officer with little surviving […]
Calvin H. Walkup
Calvin H. Walkup is recorded with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during the American Civil War, a surname closely associated with Union County, North Carolina, where Colonel Samuel H. Walkup commanded the 48th North Carolina Infantry. However, no field officer named Calvin H. Walkup appears in confirmed rosters of that regiment, and no alternate regiment […]
William Cross
Joseph B. Killebrew
Joseph B. Killebrew (1831-1906) was a Tennessee agriculturalist, geologist, and writer who later became the state’s first Commissioner of Agriculture, widely known by the honorific title ‘Colonel.’ During the Civil War he remained a civilian on his Montgomery County farm, avoiding formal allegiance to either army while paying wages to, and educating, his enslaved workers […]
Orlando H. Moore
Orlando H. Moore commanded the 25th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. He is best known for leading roughly 200 to 260 Union soldiers who fortified a crossing at Tebbs Bend (Green River Bridge), Kentucky, and on July 4, 1863, refused a surrender demand from Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, repelling eight assaults by his […]