Wikipedia: Andrew Hull Foote (September 12, 1806 – June 26, 1863) was an American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war. When the war came, he was appointed to command of the Western Gunboat Flotilla, predecessor of the Mississippi River Squadron. In that position, he led the gunboats in the Battle of Fort Henry. For his services with the Western Gunboat Flotilla, Foote was among the first naval officers to be promoted to the then-new rank of rear admiral. (more)
Library of Congress image.
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Update: 8/16/2013 — The photo is more fully described at Oxford African American Studies Center. Berch and Rockwell had escorted an escaped teenage slave to the home of Underground Railroad operator Levi Coffin in Cincinnati. They spent a couple of days at the Coffin home and, before sending the girl off to Racine, where some of the soldiers’ friends were ready to take the girl in, the trio posed for the photo. (Thanks to ‘Also Curious’ in comment below.)
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This image is indexed on the Library of Congress website under “Fugitive slaves – Wisconsin.”
Jesse L. Berch, quartermaster sergeant, 25 Wisconsin Regiment of Racine, Wis. [and] Frank M. Rockwell, postmaster 22 Wisconsin of Geneva, Wis.
J. P. Ball’s Photographic Gallery, No. 30 West 4th St., betw. Main and Walnut Sts. Cincinnati, O.
Photographer: James Presley Ball
1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.
Photograph showing two men standing, with their guns drawn, and an African American woman sitting between them, full-length portrait, facing front (Rockwell standing on the woman’s right).
From Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs
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Joseph Ford enlisted as a private in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry, on September 6, 1862. The 13th Kansas was organized on September 10, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas, and fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the unit also preformed provost and garrison duties in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Cherokee Nation.
Ford was promoted to corporal on July 15, 1864, and was mustered out with his regiment on June 26, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Carte-de-Visite by White’s Photographic Rooms, Little Rock, Ark.
The Trans-Mississippi Theater Photo Archive image and information.
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Henry Knowlton was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 5, 1862, and mustered into Company K, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 11, 1862. On May 4, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant; promoted to captain on January 30, 1865, he was assigned to command Company D.
The 33rd Missouri Infantry was engaged in the Battle of Helena and participated in the Red River campaign, including the Battle of Pleasant Hill. The regiment also fought at the battles of Tupelo, Nashville, and Fort Blakely.
Knowlton mustered out with the regiment on August 10, 1865.
Carte-de-Visite by Anderson & Turner, New Orleans, La.
The Trans-Mississippi Theater Photo Archive image and information.
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John T. Hughes (July 25, 1817 – August 11, 1862) was a colonel in the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He might also have been a brigadier general at the time of his death but documentation of the appointment is lacking.
Hughes returned to Missouri in the summer of 1862 to recruit for the Confederacy. At this time he may have been appointed as either an acting Confederate or Missouri State Guard brigadier general. No record of the appointment has been found but he was known as “general.”
He, his recruits, and several other recruiting or partisan bands united to attack the garrison of Independence, Missouri on August 11, 1862 with Hughes in overall command. During this battle (the First Battle of Independence), he was killed instantly by a shot to the head while leading a charge, but the city was captured. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Independence.He left behind a wife, Mary, and five young sons. (Wikipedia)
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