Major General Sterling Price C.S.A.- b. Sep.14,1808 d.Sep. 20,1867...U.S. Congressman from Missouri (1844-1846) Brigadier General of Missouri Volunteers during the Mexican War. Twice elected governor of Missouri(1853-1857), President of the Missouri Secession Convention, and Major General of Missouri Volunteers during WBTS. Exiled to Mexico after War. Buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis, MO. Block 96-Lot 1734

General Edwin W. Price. C.S.A. Brigadier General, Third Division, Missouri State Guard. b.June 10,1834 Chariton County,MO. d. St. Louis,MO. January 4,1908. Served as Colonel in Dept. of the Trans-Mississippi C.S.A. Captured near Stockton, MO. in 1862 while on recruiting raid, accepted pardon from federals, and returned to farming in Chariton CO. MO. for duration of war. Oldest son of General Sterling Price. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. Block 96

Colonel Celsus Price C.S.A.. Second son of General Sterling Price. Served as Staff Officer in Army of Missouri. b.Chariton, Co. MO. in March of 1841. d. September 5, 1909 in St. Louis. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. Block 96 - Lot 1734 .

Major Edgar Miller C.S.A. Quartermaster, Paymaster, and Staff Officer under General Joseph E. Johnston, Army of Tennessee. b. Alexandria, VA June 26,1830 d. St. Louis, MO. May 20,1905. Was married to Provisional Governor Hamilton R. Gamble's daughter, Mary Coalter Gamble. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,Mo. Block 96 - Lot 874

Private Henry V. Niemeyer  9th Virginia Infantry C.S.A. b. February 24,1845. d. March 7,1941 Served in most of the Eastern Battles from Seven Pines to Gettysburg. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis,MO. ..

Captain Given Campbell. 15th Kentucky Cavalry.C.S.A. b. Salem,KY December 1,1835. d. St. Louis,Mo november 20,1906. Commanded President Davis' 10 man escort til his capture on May 10, 1865. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,MO

Colonel Isaiah George Washington Steedman C.S.A. - Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis,MO. Block111, Lot 32. b. Lexington County, S.C. Sep 13,1835  d. St. Louis,MO. May15,1917.  Commanded 1st Alabama Inf. Captured at Island #10 Was shuffled through 10 POW camps and finally released in 1865

Pvt. James White Kennett C.S.A.-Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis, MO. Block 103  Lot 342.  Son of Ferdinand Kennett. Nephew of Luther Kennett, three time mayor of St. Louis. Family owned "Selma" (the Kennett Castle-private residence- still standing) a mansion on the Mississippi River just south of St. Louis, and the Herculaneum Shot tower.

Dr. Horatio Nelson Spencer C.S.A. - Bellefontaine Cemetery - Block 93, Lot - 3022. Private 1st Mississippi Light Artillery. After the war he was a renowned Doctor of Ontology with Washington University Medical School

Lt. Samuel Taylor C.S.A. - Bellefontaine Cemetery - St. Louis, MO. - Block 93, Lot - 250.
Richmond Defence Forces, Henley's 25 th Battery, Army of Northern Virginia. b. April 8, 1848  d. June 3, 1914. As you can tell by his DOB  Cadet Lieutenant Taylor was only 13 years old when the war began. By the time of his service around Richmond, VA. however he was 17, and served in the trenches around the city during the siege. After the war he attended VMI and graduated with the rank of Captain.

Colonel John Wimer C.S.A. - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO. Col. Wimer was born in Albemarle Co. VA. and moved to St. Louis in 1828. Mr Wimer was a very public spirited man and served as: constable, alderman, superintendent of waterworks, county judge, was twice elected mayor of St.. Louis, served as postmaster, president of the Pacific Railroad, and president of the Commercial Insurance Co. He also organized the Liberty Fire Company. When he was killed at the battle of Hartsville, MO. on Jan. 11, 1863 his body was sent back to St.. Louis for a decent Christian burial. The yankee Provost Marshall (Franklin Dick) managed to steal his body during the wake, and buried him in an unknown potters field as a final act of desecration. After the war his body was moved to Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Colonel Emmett MacDonald C.S.A. - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,Mo. Block 91, Lot -925. b. Steubenville, Ohio 1837....d Hartsville,Mo. Jan.11,1863 The "gallant" Emmett MacDonald wad a member of the elite St. Louis Militia that was captured at Camp Jackson on May 10, 1861. He was the only one to refuse parole, and was later released by a federal judge who ruled that Lyon's capture of the Missouri Militia was illegal, and therefore the paroles were non-binding. Col. MacDonald served as commander of the 10th Missouri Cav. til he was killed at the Battle of Hartsville in 1863. His body was sent to St. Louis (as well as that of Mayor John Wimer) and was stolen during the wake by the yankee provost marshall. He was later re-intered at Bellefontaine Cemetery, and not marked til 1992 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Colonel William Wade - Bellefontaine Cemetery Block - 84 , Lot 445  b. Maryland 1819, d. Grand Gulf, Miss. April 29,1863. Colonel Wade was one of the Missouri Militiamen captured at Camp Jackson on May 10,1861. Served as major in Missouri State guard under General Sterling Price. Recruited the 1st Missouri Confederate Battery at Memphis on Dec 14,1861. Fought at Elk Horn Tavern March of '62 then at Farmington, Iuka, and Corinth, Miss.On April 29, 1863 Col. Wade was killed manning the lower battery at Grand Gulf, Miss.

Sgt. Christopher Ellerbe - Bellefontaine Cemetery Block - 341, Lot - 3816. b.Dallas Co. AL d. St. Louis Sep 17,1908.Served in the 8th Alabama Cavalry. After the war he moved to St. Louis, and was a member of the Missouri Bar Assn. In 1882 he served in the Missouri House of Representatives. In 1892 he married Gov. Francis' sister Mary.

Lieutenant Robert Henry Stockton - Bellefontaine Cemetery Block - 319, Lot - 4513. b. july 5,1842 @ Mt. Sterling,KY  d. St. Louis 1923 Served in the 2nd Missouri Infantry C.S.A.  Co "I", Cockrill's Brigade. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. and held at Johnson's Island for two years. After the war he returned to St. Louis and organized the "Majestic Range Company" the largest stove manufacturer in the world at that time. He also owned the Majestic Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was on the St. Louis Worlds Fair Comittee.

Sgt. Wm Ward Childs - Bellefontaine Cemetery  Block - 165, Lot - 2236  b. Dec.6,1843  d.Brooklyn, N.Y. March 22,1911. Served in the 1st Missouri Light Artillery C.S.A. fought in all of the major engagements on both sides of the river. After the war Mr. Childs took a position with the American Manufacturing Co. and held office on Wall Street in New York. He was a descendant of George Washington.

Colonel Alexander Davis - Bellefontaine Cemetery Block - 165, Lot - 2402. b. Carter Co. KY Feb.28,1832  d. St. Louis Feb.14,1896. Col Davis served in the Missouri State guard in General Early Steen's Fifth Division. He was captured while on a recruiting mission near Osage City, MO in 1863. He was paroled and moved to Montana, where he served as a judge in the mining camps in that area. He established law and order there , and ruled with an iron hand. In 1869 he returned to St. Louis where he practiced law til 1880.

Sgt. James P. Bannerman - Bellefontaine Cemetery, Block 164, Lot 2876. b. Bradford, Ontario Nov.20,1840   d. St. Louis,Mo. 1911. Served in M.M. Parson's 6th Division, Missouri State Guard. Fought at battles of Carthage, and Elk Horn Tavern. Later served as Quartermaster in Parsons Brigade C.S.A., and fought in most of the battles in the Trans-Miss Theater of the war. After the war he was instrumental in establishing the Confederate Veterans Home at Higginsville, MO.

Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell - Bellefontaine Cemetery, Block 161, Lot 1604. b. Fayette, KY April 1, 1805, d. St. Louis,MO. sep.18,1868. Dr. McDowell established the medical college in St. Louis that was confiscated and turned into the infamous Gratiot Street Prison during the war. Dr. McDowell left the city to become the medical director of the Trans-Miss.(C.S.A.) Dept. His wife (Amanda Drake) was the aunt of Charles Drake (author of the "Drake Constitution" that disfranchised ex-Confederates)

Sgt. Major Thomas Henry West - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 281, Lot 3885. b. Mifflin,TN. July 27, 1846. d.St. Louis,MO. July 7,1928. Sgt. west served in Wilson's 21st Tennessee Cavalry, and saw service under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest at Brices Crossroads, Harrisonburg, and Athens. After the war he moved to St. Louis and became president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company.

Sylvester Watts - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 280, Lot 4313. b.St.Louis1837     d. 1912. Served in the Southwest Battalion Missouri Volunteer Militia, Capt. Jaxon's Battery, and the Confederate Civil Service in Richmond,VA. After the war Watts served as Civil Engineer, setting up gas and waterworks in Sedalia, East St.Louis,IL, Carondelet, Columbia, Boonville, and Louisiana, Missouri.

Senator George Graham Vest - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 283, Lot 4468. b.Frankfort,KY Dec.5,1830. d.Sweet Springs,Mo. Aug. 9,1904. Senator Vest served under General Price as Judge Advocate til 1862 when he was elected to the Confederate Congress in Richmond,VA. After the war he was elected to the U.S. Senate representing the state of Missouri for 24 years. He was instrumental in the establishment of Yellowstone National Park, the first of many such parks.

Captain Warwick Hough - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 283, Lot 4348. b. Loudon Co. VA. Jan.26,1836  d. St. Louis 1915. Served as Adjutant General of the Missouri State Guard. Served on the staff's of Generals: Leonidas Polk, Steven D. Lee, and Richard Taylor. In 1874 he was elected to the Missouri Supreme Court, where he served for ten years.

Major Edward Cunningham - Bellefontaine Cemetery  Block 37, Lot 2938. b. Cumberland Co. V.A. 1841, d. St. Louis 1904. Graduated from VMI in 1860, and was appointed to General "Stonewall" Jackson's staff at Harpers Ferry. Later served as Engineering Officer under Gen. Joe Johnston. Served as Gen. Kirby Smith's Chief of Artillery til end of war. Moved to St. Louis in 1891 and formed a law partnership with the son of Gen. A.P. Stewart

Lt. Samuel Farrington - Bellefontaine Cemetery  Block 55, lot 1003. b. Mass.1835 d. Corinth,Miss. 1862 Farrington was captured at camp Jackson (10 May 1861) enlisted in 1st Missouri Lt. Artillery in March 1861. Was killed at Battle of Corinth. Was praised by Gen. Price as a "gallant, courtious, and chivilric gentleman, who gave up his rank as a Colonel in the MSG to be a Lt in the CSA, and was sacrificed on the alter of his country's honor."

Capt. Leroy Branch Valiant - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 46, Lot 2652     b.Moulton, AL 1838, d. Greeneville,MS. 1913.  Commanded Co "I" 22nd Miss. Inf. Bowen's Brigade. Fought at Shiloh, Farmington, and Corinth. Captured in 1863. In 1874 moved to St. Louis, and was elected circut judge. In 1898 he was elected to Missouri's Supreme Court as Chief Justice.

Colonel Trusten Polk - Bellefontaine Cemetery. Block 55 . Staff judge Advocate on General Sterling Price's Staff. Was elected Governor of Missouri in 1856 (beating Thomas Hart Benton), and U.S. Senator at the same time. Resigned as gov, and assumed senate seat. Resigned in 1862 over secession question, and joined Confederate Army.

Maj. Atreus Joshua McCreery (1818-1907). Prior to the war, he resided near his dry goods business on Pine Street in St. Louis. One of the buildings he owned was known as the "McCreery Building" which was  confiscated by federals to be used as a hospital for Union soldiers and Confederate POWs. He served on Gen. Sterling Price's staff  as a quartermaster, until captured in Arkansas and sent to Johnson's Island POW Camp. He was later paroled and served on the staff of Confederate Gen. Churchill in the Texas theater of the war. I have a copy of a letter he wrote Gen. Sterling Price while he was serving under Gen. Churchill, expressing his hope that he could once again serve under Price, who apparently was a good friend of his (in letter talks about seeing one of Gen. Price's sons who was recovering from a "dog bite"). Atreus McCreery married Isabelle P. Churchill and is buried in Bellfontaine cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. They had no children. Maj. McCreery was
the son of Dr. Charles McCreery (1785-1826) and Ann Wayman Crow (1792-1869) who resided in Hartford, Kentucky. Charles was the son of Capt. Robert McCreery (Rev. War Vet.) and Mary McClanahan of Clark Co., Kentucky. I'm interested in knowing if any descendants of Maj. McCreery's brothers/sisters have anymore information on his war service or photo of him.  (first cousin),   Scott K. Williams   Florissant, Missouri

Colonel Thomas Lowndes Snead - Bellefontaine Cemetery - Block 65. b. Henrico, Co. Virginia Jan.10,1828. d. Oct.17,1890. Served as General Price's Adjutant til his election to the Confederate Congress in 1864. Wrote " Fight for Missouri". Was married to Henry Shreve's grand-daughter.

Major Frank Carter Bellefontaine Cemetery - Block 65. b. St. louis July 25,1838     d.St. louis April28, 1896 Served as  a staff officer under General John Stevens Bowen. After Bowen's death after Vicksburg, Major Carter served on General Lee's staff.

Colonel Hugh Garland - Bellefontaine Cemetery Block 75. b. Lynchburg, VA 1835. d. Franklin, TN Nov.30,1864. Captured at Camp Jackson. Elected Captain of Company "F" of elite 1st Missouri Infantry regiment. Fought, and survived every battle from Shiloh to Vicksburg. Was killed leading a desperate charge by the 1st Missouri Infantry at Franklin ,TN.

Lieutenant General Alexander Peter Stewart -  Bellefontaine Cemetery - Block 48. b. Rogersville,TN. October 2,1821. d. Biloxi, MS Aug. 30,1908.  Highest ranking Confederate Officer buried in St. Louis.  Graduated from West Point 1842. Resigned in 1845 to teach Mathmatics and philosophy at Cumberland University,TN. Commanded artillery at battle of Belmont, MO. Nov 7,1861. Assumed command of Polk's Corps. After war served as Chancellor of University of Mississippi at Oxford.

Lieutenant Alphonso Chase Stewart - Bellefontaine Cemetery - b. Lebanon,Tn 1848. d. St. Louis 1916. Son of Lt. Gen Stewart.  When the war began Lt. Stewart was attending the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Without his father's knowledge he quit school and joined the 4th Tennessee Cav. C.S.A.  General Stewart had him transferred to his staff, where he served the remainder of the war. After the war he became a very prominent lawyer in St. Louis. His father moved to St. Louis to be with his son and grand-children.

Lt. Robert Chilton Atkinson - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO. Block 68  Lot 313. b. Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia Oct.3,1841  d. St. Louis, MO. Dec.31,1917 3rd Virginia Cavalry(3rd Inf., 13th VA. Cav. 10th VA. Cav., Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery). Lt. Atkinson was attending William& Mary College when the war began, and served as cadet drillmaster til he joined the 3rd  VA. Cav. as a private. Participated in the 7 Days War, Gettysburg etc. til close of war. Set up medical practice in St. Louis after war. Was a dedicated public servant, and often refused payment for services to the needy. Buried in unmarked grave.

Oscar Blackwood Wilson - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO. Block 68  -   Lot 1187. b. Staunton, VA. Feb. 14,1843.  d. Collinsville, IL. Nov.1, 1897 Served as musician in Co."L" 5th VA.Inf., bugler, Co."K", 11th VA.Cav. Was at Battle of Fredericksville Dec.1862, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Formed the Oscar B. Wilson Manufacturing firm, and was the inventor of numerous machines and appliances.

Major William M. McPheeters - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO. Block 41 - Lot 415. b. Raleigh, North Carolina Dec.3,1815  d. St. Louis, MO. March 15,1905. Served as Medical Director on General Sterling Price's Staff during the war. After the war served as president of the Missouri Medical Society.

Captain Alcee William Stewart - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St.Louis,MO. Block 11 - Lot 6353. b. New Orleans Dec.3,1841  d. St. Louis May 2,1917 20th Louisianna Inf. Co. "E"  Fought at Island #10. Was severely wounded at Battle of Perryville, and  taken prisoner. Exchanged and fought at Chickamauga &, Missionary Ridge. After the war he worked at the Merchants Exchange in St. Louis. Was an active member in the United Confederate Veterans of St. Louis.

Andrew Hynes Gay - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,Mo. Block 31 - Lot 188 b. St. Louis,MO. Sep. 25,1841  d. New Orleans Nov.29,1914. Served in the 1st Louisana Cav. Co. "A". After war managed the familys extensive sugar interests in Louisiana. Served as president of local police board in Iberville Parish.Major Alexander Givens Anderson..Bellefontaine Cemetery...Block 21 - Lot 3459 b. Trimble County, Kentucky...June 2, 1830 d. St. Louis October 26,1900 Served as Commisary Officer for the Missouri Brigade CSA. under General Martin Green. When Green was killed at Vicksburg, Major Anderson was reassigned to General Cockrell's Missouri Brigade Staff.

Capt. Alcee William Stewart...Bellefontaine Cemetery...Block 11 - Lot 6353 (unmarked grave) b. New Orleans December 3,1841 d. St. Louis May 2, 1917 20th Louisiana Infantry Co. "E"

Major Francis D. Lee...Bellefontaine Cemetery...Block 29 - Lot 5217 b. Charleston, S.C. Jan. 12, 1826 d. St. Louis Aug. 26, 1885 Confederate Ordinance Department Developed submerged mines (torpedos) used by CS Navy. Invented the "spar" torpedo used by the CS submarine "Hundley"to sink the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on Feb. 17, 1864. Designed the Merchants Exchange Building in St. Louis after the war.

Lt. Col. Minor Meriwether...Bellefontaine Cemetery...Block 32 - Lot 3997 b. Christian County, KY Jan.6,1827 d. St. Louis June 6, 1910 Engineering Officer - under Gens.; Leonidas Polk, Price, Pemberton, Gilmer Johnson and Taylor Constructed the fortifications at Columbus KY (Ft. de Russy) Island #10, Ft. Pillow and Vicksburg. After war returned to Memphis and worked as city engineer.

Rev. Samuel Howard Ford...Bellefontaine Cemetery...Block 6 - lot 4527 b. London, England Feb. 19, 1819 d. St. Louis July 5, 1905 Ordained in 1843 and for the next 30 years pastored many Baptist Churches across Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. In December when the legally elected legislature of Kentucky seceded, Rev Ford was elected to the Confederate Provisional Congress. After the war he returned to Memphis and published the "Christian Repository", later moving to St. Louis, where he died at the age of 88 years.*note to fellow necrolithologists: Did you notice that 90% of people die within 90 days (+ or - ) their birthdays?
 

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