American Civil War Soldiers
Name: John Abshear
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Missouri
Service Record: Enlisted as a Corporal.
Enlisted in Company D, 7th Cavalry Regiment Missouri.

American Civil War Regiments
REGIMENT: 7th Cavalry Regiment Missouri
Date of Organization: 9 Jul 1863
Muster Date: 26 May 1865
Regiment State: Missouri
Regiment Type: Cavalry
Regiment Number: 7th
Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers

Regimental History
7th Missouri Cavalry Rgt.

Col. Solomon, G. Kitchen, LtCol. Jesse Ellison, Maj. James A. Walker

Kitchen's (Mo.) Cavalry Bn. was organized in April 1863 in Greene County, Ark. with eight companies. It was assigned to Shelby's Brigade,Trans-Mississippi Department. It lost two killed and two wounded at Helena, Ark. The regiment, also called the 10th Mo. Cavalry Rgt., was organized on July 9, 1863 using Kitchen's Mo. Cavalry Bn. as its nucleus. It served in C. Greene's, Marmaduke's, J. B. Clark's brigade,Trans-Mississippi Department. It took part in Marmaduke's expedition into Missouri and Price's 1864 Missouri expedition. It lost one killed, nine wounded and two missing with Marmaduke and 13 killed, 39 wounded and 69 missing during Price's expedition. On Oct. 25, 1864 13 officers and 252 enlisted men deserted. It was included in the June 2, 1865 surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department.

Submitted by: John Heseltine