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 CHAPTER XXVIII REGIMENTAL HISTORIES Union Troops Organized — Home Guards and State Militia — Third, Fifth, Sixty-Fourth, Sixty-eighth, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Second, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Forty-seventh Infantry — Sixth and Tenth Missouri Cavalry — Engineer Regiment, West Missouri Volunteers — Twenty-third and Twenty-ninth Regiments of Enrolled Militia — Other Commands of State Guards — Ninth and Second Infantry — Noted Confederate Organizations. The Union troops organized in Missouri for service in the Civil war on the Union side were of five different kinds. The first of these were Home Guards, as they were called, en- listed for a period of three months. At a somewhat later period there began the enroll- ment of what was called the Six Months Mili- tia. The third group of organizations was called the Missouri State Militia, the fourth group were the Missouri Volunteers. This group contained the principal number of regi- ments and of course, saw active, hard service in the campaigns of the war. Just about the close of the war, 1865, there were enlisted in Missouri a number of regiments kno'wai as the Enrolled Missouri Militia. These regiments served for a very short time, the organization of some of them was never even completed owing to the fact that peace was made al- most immediately after they were enrolled. An effort is made to furnish a statement of all the troops enlisted on both sides dur- ing the war. The information here given concerning Union troops is taken from re- ports of the Adjutant General of Missouri published in 1863 and 1865, and is as full and complete as it has been possible to make it. An account is given first of the troops en- listed for service in the Union armies. It has already been said that the Missouri State Militia was the term under which the state troops seiwing for the Union were known, while the Confederate troops under authority of the state were called the Missouri State Guard. The first Union troops of Southeast Mis- souri were called at first Home Guards and their term of enlistment was three months. A battalion of four companies was organized in Cape Girardeau in June, 1861, under the command of Major George H. Cramer. The officers of the companies were as follows: Company A, John M. Cluley, captain; Com- pany B, William J. Stevenson, captain ; Com- pany C, ^lichael Dittliuger, captain, and Company D, Arnold Beck, captain. As the name implies these troops were in- tended for the defense of Cape Girardeau and the surrounding communities ; they were to be in fact, as the name implies, home guards. 341