Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present...

her work tending to Union soldiers and managing the nursing staff at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Parsons was born in Taunton, Massachusetts...

Volunteers". The regiment was raised by MG John C. Fremont at St. Louis' Benton Barracks as the Western Theater counterpart to Berdan's sharpshooters. Members...

fair when the Fairgrounds were used as a Union encampment known as Benton Barracks. The annual exposition ceased in 1902 as preparations for the 1904...

superintendent of recruiting in Missouri, and from 1862 to 1865 as commander of Benton Barracks in St. Louis. At the end of the war he was breveted as a brigadier...

worked as a nurse at Benton Barracks and his wife was a laundress. His children attended their first schools on Benton Barracks, but later attended newly...

of 1848. In the Westliche Post, he saw an ad for a mule hostler at Benton Barracks. The next day he walked four miles and got the job, but held it for...

1861, Granger assumed command of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment at Benton Barracks in St. Louis, becoming a colonel of volunteers. One of the Union veterans...

added to the training barracks, in order to assist in treating hundreds of incoming wounded troops. Eventually, the Benton Barracks Hospital, under the...

the time of Pte. Benton's death at the barracks, and noted that Pte. Benton was frequently the recipient of harsh treatment. Benton’s sister, Tracy Lewis...

acquisition, construction and maintenance of various military structures such as barracks, hospitals, wharves, storehouses, etc.; the charter, purchase and maintenance...

brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was the commander of Benton Barracks and the districts of Cairo and St. Louis. Strong was also a prominent...

1864. The 1st Missouri Colored Infantry Regiment was organized at Benton Barracks, in St. Louis, Missouri, December 7–14, 1863. Attached to District...

placed in St. Louis at the Benton Barracks with the 2nd Iowa Cavalry. The regiment trained and drilled at the Benton Barracks under the newly promoted Colonel...

in Illinois, one in Michigan, and four were organized at St Louis' Benton Barracks of Missourians and detachments of volunteer candidates sent by recruiting...

Essex, and the heavy ironclad Benton were the first U.S. ironclads and the first to see combat. St. Louis' Benton Barracks became the mustering depot for...

of sick men the destination was changed to the Benton Barracks in St. Louis. They arrived at the barracks on October 28, traveling by riverboat. They remained...

his daughter, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Harvard...

Minnesota Light Cavalry, September to November, 1861. Ordered to Benton Barracks, Missouri, November, 1861, and attached to Curtis Horse, an Independent...

1864. The 3rd Missouri Colored Infantry Regiment was organized at Benton Barracks, in St. Louis, Missouri, in the winter of 1863–1864. Designation changed...

Tennessee, on July 13, 1862. They were subsequently paroled and sent to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, Missouri, to await parole. Their commanding officer,...

, USV by President Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1861 Command of Benton Barracks, Districts of Cairo and St Louis. Resigned his commission on October...

joined the army as a nurse. By 1864 she was working as a nurse at Benton Barracks General Hospital in St. Louis. Phillips left the army in 1864. She...

out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 13, 1865. Duty at Benton Barracks, Mo., until September 24, 1861. Moved to Franklin, Mo., September 24...

Steen was reassigned to Benton Barracks in Missouri. On 23 September 1863, he was officially retired from the Army at Benton Barracks, for incapacity resulting...

was honorably mustered out of volunteer service on June 1, 1865, at Benton Barracks, Missouri, and the next day he was commissioned a captain, Company...

Cunningham, page 413 Doran's regiment, the 17th Wisconsin, was stationed at Benton Barracks until April 10 when it moved to Pittsburg Landing Civil War Archive:...

mustered into Federal service on October 31, 1861. Training continued at Benton Barracks, Missouri. The 55th was part of Sherman's Yazoo Expedition. The regiment...

of volunteers from Missouri and other western states at St. Louis's Benton Barracks. Merrill enforced a level of discipline unusual for volunteer regiments...

arrived at St. Louis, Missouri, where they were assigned quarters at Benton Barracks. While Colonel Clark headquartered in Jefferson City, the regiment...