The Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board

Another Unionist Company

In the course of some new research, I’ve found another company of Arkansas Unionists who served in a Missouri regiment in Federal service.

This company was recruited for U.S. service, mainly in Fulton and Izard counties, in the winter of 1861. Interestingly, this was the same time when Col. Solon Borland was recruiting 30-day companies in the same area, to counter an expected Federal invasion of northeast Arkansas. The company was commanded by Capt. Jehoiada J. Ware, and was formally organized at Camp Phelps, near Rolla, Missouri, on December 1, 1861. It was mustered into U.S. service for a period of six months on December 23, 1861, and was designated as Co. G, Phelps’ Regiment Missouri Volunteers. Col. John S. Phelps’ eight-company regiment fought at Pea Ridge on March 7-8, 1862, and was mustered out of service at Springfield, Missouri, on May 13, 1862.

Roster of Capt. J. J. Ware’s Co. G, Phelps’ Regiment Missouri Volunteers, U.S.V.

Blackburn, John S—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 18.
Brazell, Simon—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 7, 1861; age 36.
Brewer, Eli—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861; age 18.
Brewer, Willis—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861; age 20.
Brown, Jefferson C—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 24.
Brown, John J—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 27.
Browning, Williamson Jr—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 27.
Byler, Edward R—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 25.
Cantrell, Alexander—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 23.
Carlton, John D—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 42.
Carroll, William W—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861; age 42.
Cooper, Allen—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 47.
Cooper, Jefferson V—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Criswell, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 20.
Dee, Thomas—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 35.
Duer, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Duer, William—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 44.
Elliott, John W—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 7, 1861; age 23.
Elms, Henry—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Elms, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 50.
Galyen, James M—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 30.
Goodrich, Charles—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 18.
Haley, Mark Joseph—First Lieutenant; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 31.
Harris, Henry A—Private.
Heard, George—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 8, 1861; age 19.
Heard, William H—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 8, 1861; age 18.
Jones, George W—First Sergeant; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861.
Jordan, Isaac L—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 20.
Jordan, Wyatt G—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 51.
Kennemur, Roland W—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 28.
Kerr, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 27.
Kirk, Joseph Paul Frazier Jr—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 28, 1861; age 25.
Lambert, Henry—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 25.
Lambert, John—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Lance, Benjamin F—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 38.
Lance, John P—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 42.
Lance, Robert T—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 28.
Lance, Thomas A—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 44.
Langston, Samuel—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 30.
McAfee, John A—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 14, 1861; age 26.
McAfee, Spencer—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 29.
McBride, Francis Marion—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 6, 1861; age 34.
Macum, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 14, 1861; age 32.
Marshall, James A—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Moore, Joseph T—Private.
Moser, Daniel H—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 7, 1861; age 33.
Moser, James M—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 7, 1861; age 30.
Osborn, Reuben—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 29.
Rand, Edward H—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 6, 1861; age 53.
Rand, John T—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 23.
Rand, Nicholas—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 20.
Rich, Bazel M—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 21.
Richardson, Thomas F—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 24.
Richardson, William S—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 31.
Rose, John—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 17, 1861; age 23.
Smith, James—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 8, 1861; age 33.
Smith, James H—Recruit; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 22.
Smith, Zimri—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 8, 1861; age 33.
Thorp, Hiram D—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 19, 1861; age 26.
Toney, Lorenzo Dow—Second Lieutenant; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 39.
Trett, Ira G—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 7, 1861; age 30.
Wainwright, Joseph J—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 36.
Wallace, Elick M—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861.
Wallace, Joseph E R—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861; age 21.
Ware, Jehoiada J—Captain; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 36.
Ware, William—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 42.
White, Martin S—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 24, 1861; age 24.
White, Wiley B—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 13, 1861; age 26.
Williams, John—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 8, 1861; age 23.
Wisdom, William J—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 33.
Wooton, Lorenzo Dow Jr—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 25.
Wyatt, Brown—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 18.
Yeary, Henry P—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 29.
Yeary, Milton—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 23.
Yeary, Napoleon Bonaparte—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 22.
Yeary, Nathan—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 25.
Young, Martin Van Buren—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 1, 1861; age 23.
Youngblood, Archelaus—Private; enlisted at Rolla, Missouri, December 5, 1861; age 35.

Messages In This Thread

Another Unionist Company
Re: Another Unionist Company