While an increasing number of soldiers are dying on battlefields, wounds and sickness in general are more common threats in the daily lives of the warriors of the North and South. Today, Jacob John Tanner, born October 27, 1841 in Siblingen, Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and now fighting on behalf of the United States, is stricken…
Although the Union is securely in control of Missouri, bands of rebel guerrillas yet cause problems for the U.S. military. Today the general in charge of the Northwest Missouri district issues a report of recent rebel activity. One of the prominent culprits fingered is a Baptist preacher. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI, Saint Joseph, Mo.,…
Today Union and Confederate forces clash in northern Arkansas in the Battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern). In a battle for control of the border state of Missouri, Confederate Gen. Earl Van Dorn’s army attacks an encroaching Union army led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis. Confederate forces temporarily gain the upper hand today, but divided…