Information Sheet
R Burgess, Thomas Ervin, 1838-1915.
640 Collection, ca. 1862.
One folder.
This collection
consists of copies of a Civil War photograph, service record, and genealogical
data of Sergeant Thomas E. Burgess of Gasconade
County, Missouri. Burgess served in Dallmeyer’s
Battalion of Missouri Militia, the 10th Missouri Cavalry, and the 2nd
Missouri Cavalry in the Union army, 1861-1865.
Thomas E.
Burgess was a farmer in Gasconade
County when the Civil War
began. He enrolled in September 1861 in
Dallmeyer’s Battalion, Missouri Militia.
He was in the hospital when the unit was mustered out in January
1862. In September 1862, Burgess
enlisted at Rolla in the 10th Missouri Cavalry. The unit was organized at Benton Barracks in St. Louis in October, and was sent to Memphis, Tennessee,
for duty. Burgess and the 10th
Missouri spent most of the war in Tennessee, Mississippi,
and northern Alabama, but returned to Missouri in 1864 to
participate in the campaign against Sterling Price. The regiment returned to Tennessee in December 1864. Various detachments served in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia,
and Alabama
until the regiment mustered out in June 1865.
Burgess and other men in the 10th Missouri Cavalry whose
enlistments had not expired were transferred to the 2nd Missouri
Cavalry (“Merrill’s Horse”) and served until that regiment mustered out in
September 1865 at Nashville,
Tennessee. Burgess returned to Gasconade
County following the war, then moved
to Gentry County.
He died at Albany in Gentry County
in 1915.
The collection
consists of a copy of a contemporary photograph of Burgess in uniform, a copy
of his service records from the Adjutant General of Missouri, and genealogical information
collected by the donor.
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