Samuel Merrill

SAMUEL MERRILL, seventh Governor of the State, was born in Oxford County in the State of Maine on the 7th of August, 1822. He received a liberal education and when a young man taught school several terms in the south and in his native State. He removed to New Hampshire where he was elected to the Legislature in 1854, serving two sessions. In 1856 he came to Iowa, locating at McGregor, where he opened a general store. In 1859 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the House of the Eighth General Assembly. When the war began in 1861, Mr. Merrill took the contract to furnish three Iowa regiments with clothing before the Government could supply them with uniforms. In 1862 he was commissioned colonel of the Twenty-first Iowa Infantry. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Black River Bridge and was so disabled that he resigned his commission. In 1867 he was nominated by the Republican State Convention for Governor and elected, serving two terms. He removed to Des Moines and, after the close of his second term, engaged in the banking business. With others he established the Citizens' National Bank. He was active in bringing about the great reunion of Iowa soldiers at Des Moines in the summer of 1870. Governor Merrill was for many years an influential trustee of Iowa College at Grinnell. He acquired great wealth in banking and railroad building and finally removed to California. The last years of his life were spent in Pasadena, where he died on the 31st of August, 1899. His funeral was held at DeSsMoines and was attended by many of the public officials and prominent men of the State.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa, Volume IV: Iowa Biography, p. 187-8

William M. Stone

WILLIAM M. STONE, sixth Governor of Iowa, was born in Jefferson County, New York, October 14, 1827. In 1834 his parents removed to Coshocton, Ohio, and for two seasons he drove horses on the canal and when seventeen was apprenticed to a chairmaker. At twenty-one he began to read law and in 1851 was admitted to the bar. In 1854 he emigrated to Knoxville, Iowa, and began practice. He purchased the Knoxville Journal and took editorial charge of it. Mr. Stone was a delegate to the convention which organized the Republican party and was nominated for presidential elector in the Fremont campaign of that year. He was an eloquent public speaker and won wide reputation. In April, 1857, he was elected judge of the Eleventh District. When the Civil War began he raised a company for the Third Infantry and was commissioned major of the regiment. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Shiloh and after his release was appointed colonel of the Twenty-second Infantry. He resigned in August, 1863, having been nominated for Governor by the Republican State Convention. He at once entered upon the campaign and was elected over Colonel James M. Tuttle the Democratic candidate, by more than 38,000 majority. He was reëlected by a reduced majority and during his term his private secretary in the absence of the Governor appropriated to his own use funds belonging to various counties of the State. An investigation by the General Assembly exonerated the Governor from any knowledge of or participation in the transactions. In 1877 Governor Stone was elected to the House of the Seventeenth General Assembly. In 1888 he was chosen one of the presidential electors and upon the accession of President Harrison he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Land Office at Washington and later was promoted to Commissioner. Governor Stone died in Oklahoma Territory, July 18, 1893.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa, Volume IV: Iowa Biography, p. 253

Samuel J. Kirkwood

SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD, fifth Governor of the State, was born in Hartford County, Maryland, December 20, 1813. He was educated in Washington, D. C., and employed in a drug store. In 1836 his father removed to Richland County, Ohio, where for several years the son assisted him in clearing a new farm in the heavy forest. He finally studied law, and in 1843 was admitted to the bar. From 1845 to 1849 he was Prosecuting Attorney and was then elected to the convention which framed the present Constitution of the State of Ohio. Up to 1854 Mr. Kirkwood was a Democrat but when that party attempted to force slavery into Kansas he became alienated and favored the free soil movement. In 1855 he removed to Iowa and purchased an interest in a mill near Iowa City. In February, 1856, he served as a delegate in the State Convention which organized the Republican party of Iowa. In the fall of that year he was elected to the State Senate from the district consisting of Iowa and Johnson counties, serving in the Sixth and Seventh General Assemblies. He won such reputation as a legislator that at the Republican State Convention in 1859 he was nominated for Governor and was elected over General A. C. Dodge the Democratic candidate by over 3,000 majority. During his two terms as Governor it devolved upon him to organize and send to the seat of war more than 60,000 citizen soldiers. How ably he met and performed the arduous duties which a great war thrust upon him is recorded in the most stirring chapters of Iowa history. He won a place with the greatest "War Governors" of the Nation. In 1866 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy of two years. In 1875 he was again chosen Governor; but the General Assembly of 1876 elected him to the Senate for a full term of six years and he resigned the office of Governor and returned to the Senate in March, 1877. Upon the inauguration of President Garfield, Governor Kirkwood was invited to a seat in the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior which he accepted, resigning his position in the Senate. The death of the President terminated his service in the Cabinet after thirteen months and he retired to private life. During the quarter of a century that Governor Kirkwood was almost continually in public life, he possessed the confidence and esteem of the people of Iowa in as great a degree as any citizen who ever served the State. On the 28th of September, 1892, ten years after Governor Kirkwood retired to private life, at the suggestion of Governor Sherman, more than thirty of the old associates of Governor Kirkwood in official positions living in different parts of the State, assembled at his home at Iowa City to pay their respects to the "War Governor" who was then about eighty years of age. It was a remarkable gathering of distinguished men of both political parties, after time had obliterated the bitterness of a score of partisan conflicts. All met as old friends and joined in honoring the man who had earned undying fame in the most critical period of our State and National history. Governor Kirkwood died at his home near Iowa City, September 1, 1894.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa, Volume IV: Iowa Biography, p. 157-8

Governor Tod to the Ohio Volunteers at Pittsburg Landing

COLUMBUS, O, April 13 – Gov. Tod has sent the following dispatch to the Ohio troops engaged in the recent battle at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn

“In behalf of the loyal citizens of the State you love so much, I tender their profound thanks for the gallantry, courage [and] endurance you have displayed.

“Thank God, from the best information in our possession, we are able to claim that Ohio’s soldiers did their duty. Those, yet in the field, we are sanguine, will avenge the deaths of their brave comrades, who fell on the 6th & 7th. On then, gallant volunteers of Ohio, and win new laurels for our State. With one heart the friends you left at home are caring, as Ohio mothers, wives, sisters, fathers and brothers know how to care for their sick and wounded husbands sons and brothers.”

– Published in The Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862

CONNECTICUT

The Hartford Courant has returns of the vote for Governor in all but two towns – Sherman and Union – which can hardly give a dozen majority either way. The aggregates are:

Buckingham, 39,357
Loomis, 30,593
Buckingham’s majority, 9,004

Senate, 21 Republican Union to 0 Democrats.
House, 181 republican Union to 56 Democrats; 1 (from sherman) to be heard from.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862

William Milo Stone

GOVERNOR OF IOWA.

William M. Stone was born in Jefferson county, New York, on the 14th day of October, 1827. At the age of six years, he accompanied his parents to Coshocton county, Ohio. In that State he grew up and gained a meager education. He began life at the age of thirteen, as a hired hand upon a farm. Two years later, he was hired as a team-driver on the Ohio canal, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to a chair-maker, which business he followed till he reached his twenty-fourth year. That same year he was admitted to the Coshocton bar. Since 1854, he has been lawyer, editor, judge, captain, major, colonel, and governor. Commencing lower down than thousands of his competitors, he has left them all gaping and staring after him, and wondering how he did it, and—there I shall leave them. All declare he is the luckiest man they ever knew.

The extent of Governor Stone's early education, was two terms, or Winters, at a common country school. His knowledge of law was gained through the assistance and encouragement of James Matthews, Esq., of Coshocton county, Ohio— later, his father-in-law. While following his trade, he had access to this gentleman's law library, and prosecuted the study of his chosen profession with such zeal and energy as to be able, in 1851, to exchange the chair-shop for the court-room. He began practice as a partner of his former preceptor, and continued with him till 1854, when he removed to Iowa, and established himself at Knoxville, Marion county. During his first year in Knoxville, he practiced his profession; but in 1855, purchased and began the publication of the Knoxville "Journal." As editor of that paper, if I am rightly informed, he was the first man in Iowa to suggest the call of a convention to organize the Republican Party, then only in embryo. He was not only the first to suggest the call of a Republican Convention in the State, but was a delegate to that convention, when called; and was nominated one of the Presidential Electors. Indeed, the beginning of Governor Stone's career as a public man, in Iowa, bears date at Iowa City, the 22d of February, 1856.

During the Presidential canvass of 1856, he visited the principal part of Southern Iowa, in company with our first Republican representative—Major-General Samuel R. Curtis. In that exciting canvass, he gained considerable note as a public speaker, which, with his genial, off-hand address, put him fairly before the people. In February, 1857, one year later, a judicial convention was called at Des Moines, to put in nomination a candidate for district judge of Stone's district. Stone was present in the convention, and through the influence of his friends, secured the nomination. From that time he became a rising man in the State. He was elected to the judgeship with a flattering majority; and, having served that term with credit, was, in 1858, re-nominated and re-elected with increased majorities. He was the incumbent of this office, and holding a session of his court in Washington county, at the time the news reached him of the firing on Fort Sumter. He immediately adjourned his court, declaring at the time, that the country demanded of him and the people other and more important services.

Returning to Knoxville, Judge Stone raised a company, of which he was elected captain; was assigned to the 3d Iowa Infantry in May, and, on the 25th day of June following, was promoted to the majority of his regiment. He accompanied his regiment into Northern Missouri as captain, and in command of his company, (B)—for he did not receive his commission as major till after his arrival at Chillicothe. While connected with the 3rd Iowa Infantry, Major Stone fought at the battles of Blue Mills, (where he was wounded) and Shiloh. In the last named engagement he commanded his regiment, and was made prisoner. Something of his sojourn in Dixie, as a prisoner of war, may be seen in the sketch of Brevet Brigadier- General J. M. Hedrick, then a captain of the l5th Iowa. In nearly all cases, Stone was the spokesman of the party; and his cheerfulness and wit contributed not a little in keeping his fellow prisoners in spirits. What, I believe, afforded the most amusement were the arguments between himself and the belligerous Colonel Shaw, of the 14th. Stone could advocate any thing, and Shaw would always take the opposite. They would often drag their discussions into the small hours of morning, while the other prisoners, congregated about them, would watch and listen attentively, except when giving occasional attention to a straggling gray-back. I imagine that I can see them now congregated together. I can see them, attired in their cleanest linen, and seated in old rickety chairs, and on benches and boxes, exhausting the whole calendar of attitudes.

But Major Stone was even lucky as a prisoner of war. In June, 1862, after some three months' captivity, he was selected as one of three Federal officers, who, being paroled by the rebel War Department, were dispatched to Washington to aid in arranging a cartel of exchange between the belligerent parties. The first mission was unsuccessful, and one of the parties, at least, (Stone) returned to Richmond and surrendered himself to the rebel authorities. Jefferson Davis, pleased with his conduct and with what he had done, sent him back to Washington to renew his efforts. His mission this time was successful, or at least was so represented; but, however that may be, it is certain that a general exchange came off in the following Fall.

His experience as a prisoner of war, gave Major Stone much notoriety, and put within his reach any position that ordinary desires might covet. Accordingly, after securing his liberty and returning to his home in Knoxville, he was tendered the colonelcy of the 22d Iowa Infantry, which he accepted. He was made colonel of that regiment in August, 1862, and served with it till August 14th, of the following year, when he resigned his commission with the almost certain promise of succeeding to the highest honors within the gift of his State.

Though Stone made a good record as colonel of the 22d Iowa, there is nothing strikingly brilliant about it. He first served with his regiment in Missouri, and was for several weeks commander of the post at Rolla. His regiment served as the provost-guard. In the early part of 1863, he was ordered South to take part in the experiments against Vicksburg; and immediately moved down the Mississippi, to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. Attached to Carr's Division of McClernand's Corps, (the 13th) Colonel Stone joined in the brilliant march of Grant's army across the country to opposite Bruinsburg on the Mississippi, and thence to the rear of Vicksburg. A full account of this march, and of its incidents, will be found elsewhere. On this march the 22d Iowa first met the enemy.

In the battle of Port Gibson, the first of the campaign, Colonel Stone commanded the brigade to which his regiment was attached; or rather, he commanded it during the forenoon of the engagement. Early in the forenoon, he had become so completely exhausted as to be compelled to turn his command over to Colonel Merrill of the 21st Iowa. During the time he acted on the field, he conducted himself with much credit. In this engagement, too, the 22d Iowa reflected on itself much honor. Colonel Stone's Brigade led the advance from Bruinsburg, and was, of course, the first to encounter the enemy among the rugged hills south of Port Gibson. This was not far from the hour of mid-night. So soon as the enemy were encountered in force at Thompson's Hill, Major Atherton, the unfortunate, who was in command of the 22d Iowa, hurried the regiment to the front, and deployed it in line to the left of Captain Griffith's Battery. There the regiment rested on their arms that night. Until about ten o'clock of the following morning, the regiment acted as an artillery support, and was then led forward to charge the rebel line, which it did with gallantry, quickly routing the enemy, and promptly occupying the ground just before held by them. In the severe fighting of the afternoon, the 22d Iowa was in the front, and joined in three distinct charges against the enemy's line, each of which was successful. The following is from the official report of the regiment's conduct in the action:

" Throughout this series of engagements, the officers and men of the regiment behaved with great coolness and gallantry. I found them always ready and eager to obey the order to move on the enemy. So well did the entire command acquit themselves, I can not, without seeming invidiousness, enter into particulars. It is sufficient to say, they acted nobly, and well sustained the honors already earned by Iowa soldiers. Great care was taken to shelter the men from the enemy's fire, which the unevenness of the ground enabled us to do, with comparative success. And yet, the loss of the regiment, being greater with but one exception than that of any other in the brigade, shows plainly where they were during the long and hotly contested engagement. Too much praise cannot be awarded to our surgeons, White and Peabody."

The loss of the 22d at Port Gibson was two men killed, and fourteen wounded. Lieutenants D. J. Davis, W. M. DeCamp, J. T. Whittington, D. N. Henderson, and John Francisco were among the latter. Lieutenant Davis was adjutant of the regiment.

In the official report of the Division Commander (Carr) is paid the following compliment to Colonel Stone:

" Colonel William M. Stone, 22d Iowa, who succeeded to the command of the 2d Brigade, took his place with the extreme advance guard at night, during the advance upon the enemy, exposed himself freely, and exerted himself so much that he became completely exhausted in the afternoon, and was compelled to relinquish his command to Colonel Samuel Merrill, 21st Iowa, for above an hour. By his bravery and the admirable management of his brigade, he reflects new honor on his noble State."

In speaking of his division general, Colonel Stone, in his official report, is equally complimentary.

Soon after the action at Port Gibson, General Lawler was assigned to the command of the 2d Brigade, when Colonel Stone again assumed command of his regiment. There is little of special interest in the Colonel's military record, or in that of his regiment, from the date of the Port Gibson battle to the 22d of May following. The 2d Brigade of the 14th Division did the magnificent fighting at Black River Bridge; but both the 22d Iowa and 11th Wisconsin regiments were in reserve, and suffered little. The 21st and 23d Iowa regiments are entitled to the credit of that brilliant affair, and none will be found to dispute it with them.

That which most distinguished Colonel Stone in the service, was the part he sustained with his regiment in the memorable charge at Vicksburg, on the 22d of May. In that charge he was for the second time wounded.

The nature of the country in the immediate vicinity of Vicksburg, and the character of the enemy's works were such as to insure almost certain defeat to the assaulting army, provided the rebel garrison were not reduced to a state of total demoralization. It was precisely this that General Grant counted on, as appears in his official report; and, when we reflect that he had been a witness to the enemy's shameful defeat and flight at Big Black River Bridge, were his inferences unreasonable?

In the march from Big Black River to the rear of Vicksburg, Sherman followed the Bridgeport road, McPherson the Jackson road, and McClernand the same road as McPherson, till he reached Mount Albans; then, turning to the left, he gained the Baldwin Ferry road. This threw Sherman on the right of the investing line, McPherson in the centre, and McClernand on the left. The 22d Iowa, being attached to the command of McClernand, was therefore on the south side of Vicksburg. The general character of the ground over which the charge was made, and the kind of obstructions to be overcome, I have given elsewhere. I give below an extract from Major Atherton's official report, showing the particular part the 22d took in the murderous assault.

"At four o'clock A. M., the regiment took position opposite the enemy's works, preparatory to the charge, where we were sheltered by the crest of a hill, and companies A and B deployed as skirmishers. We lay upon our arms until ten o'clock A. M., the appointed hour for the charge, when we formed in line of battle on the summit of the hill, and immediately pressed forward. From our first appearance upon the hill, we were exposed to a terrible fire from the enemy, concealed within their forts and rifle-pits. The men maintained their line and advanced like veterans to the ravine in front of the enemy's works, and made a charge upon the fort situated to our right. While here we were exposed to a murderous fire from the front, and an enfilading fire from the right and left, the enemy's works being so constructed as to effect this result. The column pressed forward, stormed the fort, took possession of the same and its inmates, and held it till dark. We maintained our position during the day, receiving and returning the enemy's fire—they concealed in their forts and other defences, and we, in a great measure, without any shelter. A continuance of the contest was deemed unadvisable, and we retired under cover of the night."

In this action, the 22d Iowa lost heavily. Colonel Stone was wounded, and Lieutenant-Colonel Graham taken prisoner. Captain James Robertson and Lieutenant M. A. Robb were among the killed. They were both good men, and their loss was deeply mourned in the regiment. One of the severely wounded was Sergeant Leonidas M. Godley. When near the enemy's works, he was shot above the knee, and his leg badly fractured. He lay under the enemy's guns till after midnight, when he was rescued by the enemy and taken into Vicksburg. He still lives to tell the story of his prison-life in the beleaguered city. The chief hero of Grant's army, that day, was a member of the 22d Iowa—Sergeant Joseph E. Griffiths. " No troops," says General Grant in his official report, " succeeded in entering any of the enemy's works, with the exception of Sergeant Griffiths, of the 22d Regiment Iowa Volunteers, and some eleven privates of the same regiment. Of these, none returned except the Sergeant, and possibly one man."

The charge of the 22d of May, at Vicksburg, was Colonel Stone's last engagement. Having received early in the fight a gun-shot wound through his left fore-arm, he retired from the field, and a few days later left for his home on leave of absence. Fortune was again favoring him.

Soon after arriving at his home in Knoxville, the Republican Gubernatorial Convention assembled at Des Moines. He attended it, and in a contest between himself, Honorable Elijah Sells, and General Fitz Henry Warren, received the nomination; then, returning to Vicksburg, he resigned his commission, and at once entered upon the vigorous canvass, which resulted in his election. Such rapid and uninterrupted success has never before fallen to the lot of any man in Iowa.

His administration of the Executive Department of the State, has been characterized by that shrewdness and energy which has marked his whole political course. Thus far, it has been a popular one; and, in this respect, contrasts favorably with that of his predecessor. Though not so able a man as Ex-Governor Kirkwood, his prospects for the future are now much the brightest. His conduct as governor has been criticised, to my knowledge, only in one particular. His visits to the army were pronounced by some buncombe expeditions, but the soldiers did not, I am informed, so regard them.

Governor Stone is about six feet in hight, and slender and erect. He has a Grecian face, a large, straight nose, large, full, gray eyes, and spare features. His appearance is intelligent and prepossessing. The chief elements of his success are, I believe, an easy, entertaining address, untiring industry, and unlimited self-confidence. These, sustained by a vigorous constitution, and driven by an iron-will, have enabled him to accomplish whatever he undertook. He rarely loses his temper, and seldom discovers an immodest desire for distinction.

As a public speaker, Governor Stone is fluent and forcible, but not polished—just what one would expect, when he remembers that all his early oratorical efforts were made at the bar. He has the happy faculty of forgetting himself in his theme. Many were witnesses of this fact at Des Moines, when himself and General Warren addressed the delegates the evening before the convention. Colonel Stone's wound was still troubling him, making it necessary for him to carry his hand in a sling; but, after entering upon his speech, he forgot that he had but one well arm, and, drawing it from the sling, began twirling it in violent gesticulations.

Governor Stone's past successes have not only disappointed his enemies, but surprised his friends. He is the most remarkable public man in Iowa, and his future, as promising as that of any man in the State.

SOURCE: Stuart, A. A., Iowa Colonels and Regiments, p. 7-15

Connecticut Election

The State election in Connecticut too place on Monday last. The Democratic nominee for Governor was JAMES C. LOOMIS, running on a “Peace” or in other words Secession Platform. The Republican nominee was WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM, who has already held the office for four terms. The canvas was an active one, but GOV. BUCKINGHAM was re-elected by a decisive majority and a Republican majority secured the Legislature.

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862

Civil War Governors – Part 3: The Confederate States

Alabama
Andrew B. Moore, Democrat, December 1, 1857 – December 2, 1861
John Gill Shorter, Democrat, December 2, 1861 – December 1, 1863
Thomas H. Watts, Democrat, December 1, 1863 – May 1, 1865

Arkansas
Elias Nelson Conway, Democrat, November 15, 1852 – November 16, 1860
Henry Massey Rector, Democrat, November 16, 1860 – November 4, 1862
Harris Flanagin, Democrat, November 4, 1862 – April 18, 1864
Isaac Murphy, Republican, April 18, 1864 – July 2, 1868

Florida
Madison S. Perry, Democrat, October 5, 1857 – October 7, 1861
John Milton, Democrat, October 7, 1861 – April 1, 1865
Abraham K. Allison, Democrat, April 1, 1865 – May 19, 1865

Georgia
Joseph E. Brown, Democrat, November 6, 1857 – June 17, 1865

Louisiana

Confederate:
Thomas Overton Moore, Democrat, January 23, 1860 – January 25, 1864
Henry Watkins Allen, Democrat, January 25, 1864 – June 2, 1865

Union:
George F. Shepley, Military, July 2, 1862 – March 4, 1864
Michael Hahn, Republican, March 4, 1864 – March 4, 1865
James Madison Wells, Unionist Democrat, March 4, 1865 – June 3, 1867

Mississippi
John J. Pettus, Democrat, November 21, 1859 – November 16, 1863
Charles Clark, Democrat, November 16, 1863 – May 22, 1865

North Carolina
John Willis Ellis, Democrat, January 1, 1859 – July 7, 1861
Henry Toole Clark, Demcrat, July 7, 1861 – September 8, 1862
Zebulon Baird Vance, Conservative, September 8, 1862 – May 29, 1865

South Carolina
William Henry Gist, Democrat, December 10, 1858 – December 14, 1860
Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Democrat, December 14, 1860 – December 17, 1862
Milledge Luke Bonham, Democrat, December 17, 1862 – December 18, 1864
Andrew Gordon Magrath, Democrat, December 18, 1864 – May 25, 1865

Tennessee
Isham G. Harris, Democrat, November 3, 1857 – March 12, 1862
Andrew Johnson, Democrat/Military, March 12, 1862 – March 4, 1865
Edward H. East, Republican, March 4, 1865 – April 5, 1865
William G. Brownlow, Republican, April 5, 1865 – February 25, 1869

Texas
Sam Houston, Independent, December 21, 1859 – March 18, 1861
Edward Clark, Democrat, March 18, 1861 – November 7, 1861
Francis R. Lubbock, Democrat, November 7, 1861 – November 5, 1863
Pendleton Murrah, Democrat, November 5, 1863 – June 17, 1865

Virginia
Henry A. Wise, Democrat, January 1, 1856 – January 1, 1860
John Letcher, Democrat, January 1, 1860 – January 1, 1864
William Smith, Democrat, January 1, 1864 – May 9, 1865

KEY: Name, Party, Term In Office

See Also:
Civil War Governors – Part 1: The United States
Civil War Governors – Part 2: The Border States

Civil War Governors - Part 2: The Border States

Kentucky:

Union:
Beriah Magoffin, Democrat, August 30, 1859 – August 18, 1862
James F. Robinson, Democrat, August 18, 1862 – September 1, 1863
Thomas E. Bramlette, Democrat, September 1, 1863 – September 3, 1867

Confederate:
George W. Johnson, Democrat, November 20 1861 – April 8, 1862
Richard Hawes, Democrat, April 8, 1862 – April 9, 1865


Maryland:

Thomas H. Hicks January, Republican, 13, 1858 – January 8, 1862
Augustus Bradford, Unionist, January 8, 1862 – January 10, 1866


Missouri:

Union:
Robert Marcellus Stewart, Democrat, October 22, 1857 – January 3, 1861
Claiborne Fox Jackson, Democrat, January 3, 1861 – August 1, 1861
Hamilton Rowan Gamble, Republican, August 1, 1861 – January 31, 1864
Willard Preble Hall, Republican, January 31, 1864 – January 2, 1865
Thomas Clement Fletcher, Republican, January 2, 1865 – January 12, 1869

Confederate:
Claiborne Fox Jackson, Democrat, August 1, 1861 – December 6,1862
Thomas Caute Reynolds, Democrat, December 6,1862 – Late April, 1865

KEY: Name, Party, Term In Office

See Also:
Civil War Governors – Part 1: The United States
Civil War Governors – Part 3: The Confederate States

Civil War Governors - Part 1: The United States

California
John G. Downey, Lecompton Democratic, January 14, 1860 – January 10, 1862
Leland Stanford, Republican, January 10, 1862 – December 10, 1863
Frederick Low, Unionist Republican, December 10, 1863 – December 5, 1867

Connecticut
William A. Buckingham, Republican, May 5, 1858 – May 2, 1866

Delaware
William Burton, Democratic, January 18, 1859 – January 20, 1863
William Cannon, Republican, January 20, 1863 – March 1, 1865
Gove Saulsbury, Democratic, March 1, 1865 – January 17, 1871

Illinois
John Wood, Republican, March 18, 1860 – January 14, 1861
Richard Yates, Republican, January 14, 1861 – January 16, 1865
Richard Oglesby, Republican, January 16, 1865 – January 11, 1869

Indiana
Abram A. Hammond, Democratic, October 4, 1860 – January 14, 1861
Henry Smith Lane, Republican, January 14, 1861 – January 16, 1861
Oliver P. Morton, Republican, January 16, 1861 – January 23, 1867

Iowa
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Republican, January 11, 1860 – January 14, 1864
William M. Stone , Republican, January 14, 1864 – January 16, 1868

Kansas
Samuel Medary (Territorial) , Democratic, December, 1858 – December, 1860
Charles L. Robinson, Republican, February 9, 1861 – January 12, 1863
Thomas Carney, Republican January 12, 1863 – January 9, 1865
Samuel J. Crawford, Republican January 9, 1865 – November 4, 1868

Maine
Lot M. Morrill, Republican, January 6, 1858 – January 2, 1861
Isreal Washburn, Jr. , Republican, January 2, 1861 – January 7, 1863
Abner Coburn, Republican, January 7, 1863 – January 6, 1864
Samuel Cony, Republican, January 6, 1864 – January 2, 1867

Massachusetts
Nathaniel P. Banks, Republican, January 7, 1858 – January 3, 1861
John Albion Andrew, Republican, January 3, 1861 – January 4, 1866

Michigan
Moses Wisner, Republican, January 5, 1859 – January 2, 1861
Austin Blair, Republican, January 3, 1861 – January 3, 1865
Henry H. Crapo, Republican, January 3, 1865 – January 6, 1869

Minnesota
Henry H. Sibley, Democratic, May 24, 1858 – January 2, 1860
Alexander Ramsey, Republican, January 2, 1860 – July 10, 1863
Henry A Swift, Republican, July 10, 1863 – January 11, 1864
Stephen Miller, Republican, January 11, 1864 – January 8, 1866

New Hampshire
Ichabod Goodwin, Republican, June 2, 1859 – June 6, 1861
Nathaniel S. Berry, Republican, June 6, 1861 – June 3, 1863
Joseph A. Gilmore, Republican, June 3, 1863 – June 8, 1865
Frederick Smith, Republican, June 8, 1865 – June 6, 1867

New Jersey
William A. Newell, Republican, January 20, 1857 – January 17, 1860
Charles S. Olden, Republican, January 17, 1860 – January 20, 1863
Joel Parker, Democratic, January 20, 1863 – January 16, 1866

New York
Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862
Horatio Seymour, Democratic, January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864
Reuben Fenton, Union, January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868

Ohio
Salmon P. Chase, Republican, January 14, 1856 – January 9, 1860
William Dennison, Republican, January 9, 1860 – January 13, 1862
David Tod, Republican, January 4, 1862 – January 11, 1864
John Brough, Republican, January 11, 1864 – August 29, 1865
Charles Anderson, Republican, August 29, 1865 – January 8, 1866

Oregon
John Whiteaker, Democratic, March 3, 1859 – September 10, 1862
A. C. Gibbs, Republican, September 10, 1862 – September 12, 1866

Pennsylvania
William F. Packer, Democratic, January 19, 1858 – January 15, 1861
Andrew Gregg Curtin, Republican, January 15, 1861 – January 15, 1867

Rhode Island
Thomas G. Turner, Republican, May 31, 1859 – May 1860
William Sprague, Republican, May 1860 – March 3, 1863
William C. Cozzens, Democratic, March 3, 1863 – May 26, 1863
James Y. Smith, Republican, May 26, 1863 – May 29, 1866

Vermont
Hiland Hall, Republican, October 10, 1858 – October 12, 1860
Erastus Fairbanks, Republican, October 12, 1860 – October 11, 1861
Frederick Holbrook, Republican, October 11, 1861 – October 9, 1863
J. Gregory Smith, Republican, October 9, 1863 – October 13, 1865
Paul Dillingham, Republican, October 13, 1865 – October 13, 1867

West Virginia
Arthur I. Boreman, Republican, June 20, 1863 – February 26, 1869

Wisconsin
Alexander W. Randall, Republican, January 4, 1858 – January 6, 1862
Louis P. Harvey, Republican, January 6, 1862 – April 19, 1862
Edward Salomon, Republican, April 19, 1862 – January 4, 1864
James T. Lewis, Republican , January 4, 1864 – January 1, 1866

KEY: Name, Party, Term In Office

See Also:
Civil War Governors – Part 2: The Border States
Civil War Governors – Part 3: The Confederate States