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Missouri State Guard Color Bearers

Bowen, William H., Color Sergeant, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 6th Division. Taken prisoner of war at Blackwater, Saline County, Missouri 10 Dec 1861. Paroled from Alton, Illinois military prison 27 May 1862. Carolyn Bartels, The Forgotten Men: Missouri State Guard (Shawnee Mission, KS: Two Trails Publishing, 1995), 28.

Cargile, John D., Ensign, Co. B (Bollinger County Light Horse), 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division. Original Muster Roll, Alvord Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

Cockman (Cochran), Stephen C., Appointed ensign, 1st Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, on 6 Sept 1861. Transferred to Confederate service (33rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment) 22 Sept 1861 at Camp Belmont, Missouri. Original Muster Roll, Alvord Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

Crewens, C. C., Flag bearer. Co. B, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Division. History of Howard and Chariton Counties, Missouri St. Louis: National Historical Co., 1883).

Dowler, John, Ensign, Co. F, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 6th Division. Missing in action at Springfield, Missouri 25 Oct 1861. Original Muster Roll, Alvord Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

Frisby, John R., Ensign, Co. D, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. “Started in the battle of Elkhorn with the flag, threw it down and ran off.” CSR Roll 134, 6th Missouri Infantry, CSA.

Gaines, R., Color bearer, Saline Jackson Guards, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 6th Division. History of Saline County, Missouri St. Louis: National Historical Co., 1881.

Jenkins, William F., Appointed Color Sergeant, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division on 2 August 1861. Discharged at New Madrid, Missouri on 24 Dec 1861. Original Muster Roll, Co. A (Swamp Rangers), 2nd Cavalry Regiment. Alvord Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

McIlvaine, William, Ensign, Washington Guards, 5th Division. Alvord Collection, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

Mendinghall, Absalom W., Flag bearer, Co. A, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Division. Original Muster Roll, Woodside’s Company. Samuel Newitt Wood Papers, 1855-1891, MS1117, Roll 1, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.

Orr, Jennings P., Color Sergeant, 1st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. According to the report of Brig. Gen. John B. Clark, Sr., division commander, it was Orr “who was our standard bearer during the engagement (Wilson’s Creek) and who, though wounded severely, through the entire engagement bore aloft his banner, waving it amidst the thickest of the contest and returning from the conflict with scarcely anything but the staff.” O. R., Series 1, III, 424.

Scott, F. M., Flag bearer, Unknown unit, 8th Division. Union Provost Marshall Records, National Archives, Washington, D. C.

Simpson, George, Flag bearer, Captain James O’Bannon’s Company, 3rd Division. Killed in action at Carthage, Missouri 5 Jul 1861. “The Audrain County Flag,” Confederate Veteran 36 (1928): 98-99.

Sitton, John J., Color Sergeant and thence Sergeant-Major, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Division. CSR Roll 126, 4th Missouri Infantry, CSA.

Smith, Weakley, Color Sergeant, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 8th Division. Wounded in action at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, 10 Aug 1861. Carolyn Bartels, The Forgotten Men, supra.

Urmston, W. D., Color Sergeant, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Division. Appointed 1 Sep 1861. Subsequently served as Division Asst. Quartermaster. Officer Roster, 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.

White, John Henry, Color Sergeant, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Division. CSR Roll 126, 4th Missouri Infantry, CSA.

Williamson, B. F., Color Sergeant, Windsor Guards, Price’s Escort. Muster roll in undated (ca. 1906), unidentified Windsor, Missouri newspaper.

Extracted from Wayne Schnetzer, Patriot Army of Missouri, 1861-1865, Missouri State Guard 2 vols. Independence, MO: Two Trails Publishing, 2008.