Showing posts with label 11th MO CAV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 11th MO CAV. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2020

11th Missouri Cavalry

Organized at Benton Barracks and St. Joseph, Mo., March 28 to December 11, 1863. Attached to District of Stt. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1863. District of Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. District of Northeast Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Corps, to March, 1865. Separate Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.—Duty in District of St. Louis, Mo., till December, 1863. At Springfield and Rolla, Mo., till February, 1864. Expedition from Springfield to Huntsville, Carrollton and Berryville, and skirmish, November 10-18, 1863 (Detachment). Operations in Northeast Arkansas January 1-30, 1864. Martin's Creek January 7. Rolling Prairie January 23 (Co. "B"). At Batesville, Ark., February to April. Expedition from Batesville to Searcy Landing January 30-February 3. Morgan's Mill, Spring River, White County, February 9 (Detachment). Independence, Mo., February 19. Waugh's Farm, near Batesville, February 19. Expedition from Rolla to Batesville, Ark., February 29-March 13. Scout from Batesville to West Point, Grand Glaze and Searcy Landing March 15-21 (Detachment). Expedition from Batesville to Coon Creek, Devil's Fork, Red River, March 24-31. Van Buren County March 25. Scout from Batesville to Fairview March 25-26 (Detachment). Near Cross Roads March 27. Spring River, near Smithville, April 13 (Detachment). Jacksonport April 20. Expedition from Jacksonport to Augusta April 23-24. Near Jacksonport April 24. Ordered to Duvall's Bluff May, 1864, and duty there till October. Scout in Craighead and Lawrence Counties June 25-26 (Co. "M"). Clarendon, St. Charles, June 25-26. Clarendon June 27-29. Scout to Searcy and West Point July 26-28 (Detachment). Des Arc July 26 (Detachment). West Point July 28 (Detachment). Hay Station No. 3 July 30 (Detachment). West Point August 5. Expedition from Little Rock to Little Red River August 6-16. Operations in Central Arkansas, with skirmishes August 9-15. Duvall's Bluff August 21 and 24. Long Prairie August 24. Jones' Hay Station August 24. Duvall's Bluff September 6. Searcy September 13. Expedition from Duvall's Bluff toward Clarendon October 16-17 (Detachment). Brownsville October 30. Duty at Brownsville till February, 1865. Expedition from Brownsville to Augusta January 4-27, 1865 (Detachment). Moved to Little Rock February 4, and duty there till June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 27-July 3. At Greenville till July 27. Mustered out at Greenville July 27 and discharged at St. Louis August 10, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 181 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1310

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Edward Lawrence

EDWARD LAWRENCE, physician and surgeon, Osceola, was born in the city of Alton, Illinois, March 3, 1836. His parents, John and Keziah Lawrence, were natives of New Jersey. They removed to Randolph County, Illinois, when Edward was a small boy, making a permanent home. Here the mother died in 1878, and the father then removed to Osceola and made his home with Edward, where he died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.  Edward received his primary education in the common schools, where he gained a sufficient knowledge to enable him to teach. He followed teaching four years, and during the time studied medicine under Dr. Joseph McDonald, of St. Louis, a professor in the Missouri Medical College, of which Dr. Lawrence is a graduate – of 1859-‘60.  His first practice was in Wayne County, Missouri.  Upon the breaking out of the civil war, the doctor left the State and went over into Illinois. He enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, as Assistant Surgeon. He served eighteen months, and was mustered out at New Orleans in July, 1865.  He then came to Scott County, Iowa, locating in Davenport, where he pursued the practice of his profession until 1876, when he removed to Osceola. At one time the doctor was associated with Dr. Laws, now deceased. The partnership continued about eighteen months and was dissolved by mutual consent. Since then Dr. Lawrence has conducted his business alone. He is acknowledged to be the leading surgeon of the county.  In 1858 he was married to Miss Winifred Dollarhide, a native of Muscatine County. Her father was one of the pioneers who came to Iowa from Warren County, Indiana, in 1832. They are the parents of five children – Emma R., Edward J., Harry K., William E., and Ada E.  The doctor is a thorough student and is regarded as a fine chemist; has all the appliances for making chemical tests, and for chemical analysis. He is a member of the Masonic order, also of the Sons of Temperance. While residing in Davenport he was a member of the School Board.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 415