Event class: infantry, civil war, regiment, army, enlisted, served, company, colonel, captain, volunteer

Events with high posterior probability

Robert Wilson (Missouri)	In 1837 he was appointed brigadier general of the State forces and served during the so-called Mormon War.
Frederick W. von Egloffstein	In 1861 Egloffstein, who had moved to New York City, helped organize what became the 103rd New York Volunteer Infantry, of which he was elected colonel.
Edward P. Doherty	He enlisted in a 90-day militia unit and was assigned as a Private to Company A of the 71st New York Volunteers on April 20, 1861.
William S. S. Willes	In 1853, he served on the first city council and was captain of the Lehi division of the Utah Territory militia, the Nauvoo Legion, in which he was involved in the Walker War and the Utah War.
John Alexander McClernand	Cairo, Illinois | Cairo He resigned from Congress, raised the'' McClernand Brigade'' in Illinois, and was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers on May 17, 1861.
John George Walker	Walker was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 8th Texas Cavalry in August 1861, where he served in the Department of North Carolina.
Seldon Connor	Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, Connor entered the military service in May 1861 as a private in the 1st Vermont Infantry, but became ill with chronic catarrh, recovering the following winter.
David Gregg McIntosh	The only military experience he had was as a member of the local militia before the war, but after his native South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860, McIntosh offered his services to the state.
Herold J. Weiler	Weiler served on the Mexican border during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916 as a member of Troop D. During World War I Weiler served in France as a member of the 131st Field Artillery Regiment, a unit of the 36th Infantry Division.
Samuel C. Armstrong	Armstrong subsequently rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel, being assigned to the 9th Regiment, United States Colored Troops (USCT) in late 1863.
George Right Smith	George enlisted just before his 24th birthday into Company H of what soon became Wofford's 18th Georgia Regiment on June 13, 1861.
Emil Lewis Holmdahl	Lying about his age, he joined the 51st Volunteer Iowa Infantry Regiment in 1898 together with his older brother Monty.
John Mendenhall (colonel)	Promoted to first lieutenant in 1856, he served in Florida during hostilities with the Seminoles.
Brice Disque	In February 1901 he mustered out of the volunteers to accept a regular's commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the 5th Cavalry, with temporary duty at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
Louis H. Carpenter	Carpenter accepted the rank of captain in the Regular Army on July 28, 1866 and took command of the African American troops of'' D'' company, 10th U. S. Cavalry.
Alvah Bessie	No stranger to soldiering, through 1938 Bessie fought as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
John M. Palmer (politician)	He enlisted in 1861 and was commissioned Colonel of the 14th Illinois Infantry, serving under his friend John C. Fremont in an expedition to Springfield, Missouri, to put down the rebellion in that state.
Augustus Pleasonton	In 1833, he became a Brigade Major in the Pennsylvania volunteer militia.
George Geiger	Nineteen days later, in Louisville, Kentucky, he reenlisted with the 7th Cavalry and was attached to Troop H, December 18, 1872.
Charles B. Stoughton	id lDoWAAAAIAAJ & printsec titlepage #PPA 191, M1 -RSB- He was commissioned adjutant of the 4th Vermont Infantry on August 1, 1861, and mustered into military service on September 21 under the command of his brother, Col. Edwin H. Stoughton.
Basil W. Duke	By October 1861, he had enlisted in his brother-in-law's (Morgan's) command and was subsequently elected Second Lieutenant.
Napoleon B. McLaughlen	In May 1861 he returned to U. S. military service as 1st Lieutenant in the 1st U. S. Cavalry Regiment.
William Overall Yager	When the Eighth and Third Texas Cavalry Battalions were consolidated, on May 2, 1863, and renamed the First Texas Cavalry Regiment, Yager was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and second in command, with Col. Augustus Carl Buchel as commanding officer.
Joseph L. Follett	He joined the 1st Missouri Infantry in April 1861, later re-organized as the 1st Missouri Light Artillery.
F. Clarence Buck	He became a private in the 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry and was soon promoted to corporal on January 20, 1863.
Isparhecher	They settled on a farm at Cussetah town, about southeast of the present city of Okmulgee, Oklahoma Isparhecher enlisted for a one-year term in the Confederate Army on August 17, 1861, becoming 4th Sergeant in Company K of the 1st Regiment of Creek Mounted Volunteers.
Rufus Dawes	When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Dawes organized a volunteer unit from Mauston in June and on July 16, 1861 was elected captain.
Milt G. Barlow	Barlow served in the American Civil War enlisting on April 23, 1861 at Louisville as a private with Company C of the First Kentucky Infantry.
William Jackson Palmer	Palmer was mustered out of the Union Army volunteer force on June 21, 1865.
Arthur Ducat	Ducat started his was service on May 2, 1861 as 2nd lieutenant of the 12th Illinois Infantry Regiment.
Alonzo J. Edgerton	By January 1864 he had risen to the rank of Colonel of the 67th Regiment Infantry U. S. Colored Troops.
William Stone (attorney)	After seven weeks of drilling with other volunteers, he `` went into camp'' on June 28, 1861 as a private in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
John Scanlon	He was mustered out July 3, 1865, when the regiment returned to Madison from Kentucky and was discharged.
Meedy Shields	Shields then joined the Indiana Militia in 1832 to fight in the Black Hawk War and by the fall of the that year, acquired the title of Captain.
Jerome B. Robertson	Robertson was a delegate to the state Secession Convention in January 1861, and subsequently raised a company of volunteers for the Confederate army and was elected as its captain when it became a formal part of the newly raised 5th Texas Infantry in the brigade of John Bell Hood.
Edmund Zalinski	Lying about his age, Zalinski enlisted in the United States Army, and served during the American Civil War as aide-de-camp on the staff of General Nelson A. Miles from October 1864.
William T. H. Brooks	With the outbreak of the Civil War, Brooks was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in September 1861.
John R. Brooke	In 1866, Brooke accepted a commission as the lieutenant colonel of the 37th U. S. Infantry of the regular army.
Edmund W. Hubard	During the Civil War, he served as colonel of a militia regiment in 1864 and was an appraiser of the Confederate States Government to regulate the value of the Confederate dollar.
Upton Hays	He was elected lieutenant colonel of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, VIII Division, Missouri State Guard, in December 1861.
Andre Cailloux	At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Cailloux became a lieutenant in the Native Guard, a Confederate regiment organized to defend the city of New Orleans.
Joseph Bradford Carr	On March 13, 1865, Carr was appointed a brevet major general of volunteers, and he was mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24.
Goode Bryan	In June 1846, Bryan joined the 1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry as its major.
John P. McCown	McCown chose to follow the Confederate cause and resigned his U. S. Army commission on May 17, 1861.
John Wesley Powell	On May 8, 1861, he enlisted at Hennepin, Illinois, as a private in the 20th Illinois Infantry.
Delmar T. Spivey	'' When Colonel Delmar T. Spivey entered -LSB- the camp -RSB- in late July, -LSB- sic -RSB- 1943, he was a full colonel and twice the age of most of his fellow inmates.
Charles G. Conn	During this time, Conn sold health care products under the tradename'' Konn's Kurative Kream'', In 1884 Conn organized the 1st Regiment of Artillery in the Indiana Legion and became its first Colonel, a military title which stayed with him throughout the remainder of his life.
Henry J. Madill	On August 30, 1862, he was appointed Colonel of the 141st Pennsylvania Infantry.
John E. Bendix	Following the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Bendix organized the 7th New York Infantry and was appointed as its first colonel.
Frank Posegate	In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Ohio and promoted to 2nd lieutenant on September 18, 1861.
Walter C. Whitaker	He served until July 21, 1848, when he was mustered out of the volunteers.
Beau Biden	Biden joined the military in 2003 as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and was recently promoted to the rank of Major in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps as part of the 261st Signal Brigade in Smyrna, Delaware.
William Montrose Graham, Jr.	After brief service in command of the 2nd Corps at Camp Alger and Camp Meade, he retired from the regular army on his 64th birthday, and was honorably mustered out of the volunteers on November 30, 1898.
Henry Clark Corbin	He was promoted to captain in the 38th Infantry, a Buffalo Soldier regiment, in July 1866.
Lyman W.V. Kennon	He grew up in New York City when his mother was remarried to George G. Lambertson after his father, a Quartermaster Sergeant in Company D of the Rhode Island 2nd Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War died 23 May 1863 at Brashear City, Louisiana.
Charlemagne Tower	Within ten days of the outbreak of hostilities at Ft. Sumter, SC on April 12, 1861, Tower recruited some 270 Schuylkill County men to enter the Union Army under a three-month enlistment agreement.
Albert Leopold Mills	After the Spanish American War began in 1898 he was promoted to a Captain of Volunteers, and served as an Assistant Adjutant General.
John Cadwalader (jurist)	He was a captain of the Pennsylvania State Militia in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1844, which was called out for the Philadelphia Nativist Riots.
William T. Wofford	Wofford was mustered out of the volunteer service on July 12, 1848, and afterward worked as a planter, served as a state legislator, and then became a lawyer.
Francis C. Barlow	In April 1861, Barlow enlisted as a private in the 12th Regiment, New York State Militia, leaving behind his new bride, Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, ten years his senior, after one day of marriage.
Benjamin Lloyd Beall	During the Mexican American War, Beall was promoted from Captain of the Second Dragoons to Major of the U. S. 1st Dragoon Regiment on February 16, 1847.
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell	He resigned from his second term in 1861 to form the Seventh Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry in the Conferate army during the Civil War.
John May Taylor	Taylor enlisted in the Confederate States Army, and was elected first lieutenant in June 1861 and promoted to captain.
John Alexander Anderson	His first charge was located in Stockton, California, where he served until 1862 when he was appointed chaplain of the Third regiment, California volunteer infantry.
George Washington Helme	Helme left his law practice and enlisted in the Confederate States Army on March 8, 1862 in New Orleans as a Captain in the Crescent Regiment, commanding Company G, Marion Rangers, nicknamed the Ruggles Guards.
Abram Fulkerson	Fulkerson entered Confederate military service in June 1861 as a Captain, having organized a company of men from Hawkins County, Tennessee that was mustered into the 19th Tennessee Infantry Regiment as Company K (The Hawkins Boys) at Knoxville.
John L. Bullis	On August 8, 1862, Bullis enlisted as a private in the 126th New York Volunteer Infantry regiment.
Woodbury Kane	When the Spanish -- American War broke out in late April 1898, Kane enlisted in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, better known as the'' Rough Riders.''
Henry Bertram	On June 29, 1861, under his new name, Bertram enlisted in the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant.
Charles DeRudio	DeRudio served with the 2nd U. S. C. T. in Florida until honorably mustered out of service on January 5, 1866.
Edwin Augustus Rigg	Joined the 1st California Infantry, with many of his militia company August 15, 1861.
Charles A.R. Dimon	Therefore, in August 1864, just as Dimon assumed command of the regiment, the 1st U. S. Volunteers were transferred to Fort Rice in the Dakota Territory.
Solomon Meredith	With the war over in 1865, Meredith mustered out from the volunteer army with the brevet rank of major general and returned home to Indiana, where he resumed farming.
Joseph R. Anderson	Anderson, a supporter of southern secession and states' rights, was commissioned a Major of artillery in August 1861, and promoted to brigadier general in the Confederate Army on September 3, 1861.
A. Judson Clark	Clark enlisted in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in April 1861, and became a sergeant in Company F.
Thomas Welsh (general)	In October 1861, he was appointed to command the 45th Pennsylvania infantry, a three-years regiment, which he had recruited from Center, Tioga, Lancaster and Mifflin and Counties.
William Findlay Rogers	Rogers served as a member of Company D of the Buffalo City Guard, in 1846, and served in the American Civil War as colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers.
Lewis Golding Arnold	After the outbreak of the Civil War, he was promoted to Major (United States) of the 2nd United States Artillery and was assigned to Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas, FL, in January 1861, leaving his command at Fort Independence, MA.
Thomas Williams (general)	He began his military service in 1832 as a private in an infantry company during the Black Hawk War, serving as a trumpeter under his father's command.
George Francis McGinnis	He was mustered out of the volunteers with the rank of captain in 1847 and returned to Ohio to take up hatting.
John Rufus Edie	He was commissioned a major of the 15th Infantry Regiment on May 14, 1861.
August Schmidhuber	From 16 June 1919 until the beginning of October, Schmidhuber served with the 9th Company of his regiment and then spent nearly a year in 3 company.
Thomas Duncan (general)	He began his military career at age 13, serving as a private in the Illinois Mounted Volunteers in 1832 during the Black Hawk War.
Benjamin S. Roberts	In 1846, at the beginning of the Mexican-American War, Roberts was reappointed a first lieutenant, Mounted Rifles, in the Regular Army.
Herbert G. Squiers	In 1880 he was transferred from the First Infantry Regiment to the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Charles W. Field	With the outbreak of the Civil War, Field resigned his commission on May 30, 1861, and left West Point for Richmond, where he offered his services to the Confederacy.
Robert S. Garnett	In 1848, Garnett transferred to the 7th U. S. Infantry and served in the Seminole Wars in Florida before heading to the Presidio of Monterey, California.
James Madison DeWolf	In August 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army in the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery at the age of 17.
James Edwin Powell	Before the Civil War, he enlisted as a private assigned to Company A, 9th Infantry in 1847, and served in the Mexican American War.
Edgar C. Erickson	In April, 1914 Erickson enlisted in Company H. 2nd Massachusetts Infantry.
William Ruffin Cox	With North Carolina's secession and the outbreak of the Civil War in early 1861, Cox raised and outfitted the'' Ellis Artillery Company.''
Powell Clayton	In May 1861 Clayton was formally mustered into the Union Army as a captain of the 1st Kansas Infantry.
Norwood Penrose Hallowell	On April 17, 1863, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, as second-in-command (after Colonel Robert Gould Shaw) of the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first all-black regiments in the U. S. On May 30, he accepted Governor John A. Andrew's personal request that he be made colonel in command of the 55th Massachusetts, another all-black regiment.
Charles D. Anderson	He was elected captain in the 6th Georgia Infantry on May 27, and assigned to command of the regiment's Company C. On May 15 Anderson was promoted to lieutenant colonel, but due to his injuries he resigned his commission in the Confederate Army on January 20, 1864.
Boston Corbett	Corbett re-enlisted in September 1863 as a private in Company L, 16th New York Cavalry Regiment.
Joe Gould (boxing)	Gould enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1942, and became a First Lieutenant.
Marcellus Jerome Clarke	At the age of 17 in 1861, he enlisted as M. Jerome Clarke in the 4th Kentucky Infantry, 1st Kentucky'' Orphan'' Brigade, Confederate States Army (CSA).
Charles L. Matthies	On May 14, 1861 he became a captain in the 1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry.
Alfred P.C. Petsch	and at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois, where he was discharged on December 3, 1918, with the rank of Major of Infantry.
Harold Huston George	George joined the New York National Guard on 5 July 1916, during the crisis caused by Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico.