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34 Harris, Samuel Stanhope | |
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Dr. S. S. Harris in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape
Girardeau, Missouri
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Captain Samuel Stanhope Harris |
The web pages at http://www.missouridivision-scv.org says, "He commanded the 'Missouri Volunteers' aboard the C.S.S. Arkansas."
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Capt. Harris was born in Jackson,
Missouri, in 1836. He studied medicine at Bellevue Medical College in New
York City and afterwards returned home to Missouri to practice. "When a
local company of mounted volunteers, the 'Swamp Rangers,' was organized in
March, 1861, he was elected 1st Lieutenant. He then took command of the
McDowell Battery and commanded it at the Battle of Fredericktown on October
21, 1861. After mustering out of the Missouri State Guard, he organized
Harris' Missouri Light Artillery. Volunteers from that battery, among
others, were the men who manned the guns on the Arkansas." also from http://www.missouridivision-scv.org
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In Myron Smith's Civil War Biographies of the Western Waters, pg. 106, we read that Harris formed his men into the 1st Confederate Regiment and took 60 of them to Yazoo City, where they joined up with the other crewmen of the Arkansas. "Trained as gunners, the Missourians, who agreed to ride the boat only to Vicksburg, manned her Columbiads during her July 15 breakout from the Yazoo River into the Mississippi." |
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