Monthly Archives: May 2013

N0. 182 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI MCDONALD’S CONFEDERATE COMPANY, (RALLS COUNTY RANGERS)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Captain Washington McDonald The rangers harassed Unionists and evaded the Union patrols sent to find the company. On October 18, 1864, some 300 mounted Confederates under McDonald’s leadership, camped near the residence of Judge Ritchie in Miller Township, … Continue reading →

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N0. 181 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI MARMADUKE’S CONFEDERATE COMPANY, (THE MACON RANGERS)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Captain William D. Marmaduke Marmaduke raised a company numbering 96 men for the Confederacy in Macon County in May of 1861. Source: Macon.

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N0. 180 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI QUANTRILL’S CONFEDERATE COMPANY (SCOUTS, GUERRILLAS) (NA)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Captain (Colonel?) William C. Quantrill Quantrill was perhaps the most noted of all the guerrilla leaders in Missouri primarily because his raid on Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863. He was born in Canal Dover, Ohio on July … Continue reading →

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N0. 179 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI SNIDER’S CONFEDERATE MISSOURI CAVALRY, ALSO 1ST CONFEDERATE MISSOURI CAVALRY BATTALION

Posted on May 23, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Major Henry Snider No further information available on this unit.

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N0. 178 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI TRACY’S CONFEDERATE CAVALRY

Posted on May 16, 2013 by gautic01

Commander: (?) Tracy This unit operated irregularly in Ozark County, Missouri, in February 1865. Source: O.R.

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N0. 177 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI WOOD’S CONFEDERATE CAVALRY (14TH MISSOURI CONFEDERATE CAVALRY BATTALION LATER 13TH MISSOURI CAVALRY REGIMENT)

Posted on May 16, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Colonel Robert C. Wood Wood’s unit operated irregularly in Missouri. Source: O.R., Langford, 1999

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N0. 176 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI 10TH MISSOURI CONFEDERATE CAVALRY REGIMENT

Posted on May 9, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Colonel Robert R. Lawther Lt. Colonel Merritt L. Young Major George W.C. Bennett The nucleus when formed in December, 1863, was Young´s 11th Missouri Cavalry. It skirmished in Arkansas and took part in Price´s Missouri Expedition. The regiment … Continue reading →

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N0. 175 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI POINDEXTER’S CONFEDERATE MISSOURI CAVALRY REGIMENT

Posted on May 9, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Colonel John A. Poindexter Born 1825 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, he joined the Confederate Army in 1861. He took part in several battles in Missouri and in 1862 entered Missouri on orders by General Hindman and General Price … Continue reading →

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N0. 174 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI 2ND NORTHEAST CONFEDERATE MISSOURI CAVALRY REGIMENT

Posted on May 9, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Colonel Cyrus Franklin This regiment was later consolidated with the rest of Col. Porter’s 1st Northeast Missouri, dismounted and formed the 7th Missouri Infantry Regiment.

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N0. 173 CIW CHAPTER 12 MISSOURI 1ST NORTHEAST CONFEDERATE CAVALRY REGIMENT (NA)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by gautic01

Commanding officer: Colonel Joseph C. Porter Porter was born in Lewis County, Missouri, a little east of Newark. According to other information he was born in Kentucky in 1819. In 1861 he was a Lieutenant Colonel in Martin E. Green´s … Continue reading →

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