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 346 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI tie ; Company I, Madison count}' ; Captain, H. W. Bradley; first lieutenant, C. H. Cummings ; second lieuenant, "V. A. Dunlap ; Company K, Ste. Genevieve county; captain, Gustavus St. Gem ; first lieutenant, Leon Bogy : second lieu- tenant, Robert D. Brown. The organization of this regiment was completed in September. 1864, and as soon as companies were ready they were sent to their resp)ective counties and assisted in the defense against General Price; Companies A, G, and H were sent to Patterson and later returned to Pilot Knob where they were joined by Companies F and I and took part in the engagement at that place ; later the regiment was sent to Rolla and was there joined to the command of Gen- eral Thomas Xash ; the regiment I'emained a part of the force under General Nash until nuistered out in March, 1865. The surplus companies which had been raised for the Forty-seventh Regiment were ordered to be organized into the 50th. The or- ganization, however, had not been effected at the time of General Price's raid through the country and the companies were sent back to their counties before the organization was completed. After Price had passed on to north ilissouri and work of organization was taken up and David IMurphy was made lieu- tenant colonel at first and then in the spring of 1865, was made colonel of the regiment. B. Newey was the lieutenant colonel ; the com- pany officers were as follows : Company A, ^lississippi county; captain, E. P. Deal; Company B, captain, Charles Perry; Com- pany C. Cape Girardeau county; captain, Charles F. Bruihl ; Company D, Scott county ; captain. W. W. Campbell; Company E, cap- tain, Arthur 'SI. Kuson ; Company F, Iron county : captain, Robert L. Lindsay ; Com- pany G, Perry county; captain. Christian Popp ; Company H, captain, Lindsay Jlur- dock; Company I, captain, William R. Vaughn ; Company K, captain, Clinton Spen- cer. The only service the regiment saw was that of the respective companies in their own counties; in the summer of 1865, they were ordered to St. Louis and were a little later mustered out of service. The Sixth Regiment Missouri Cavalry was organized February, 1862, by consolidating two battalions and a company; these battal- ions were known as Wright 's and Wood 's, and the company was the one raised by H. P. Hawkins. The regimental officers were: C. Wright, colonel; S. N. Wood, lieutenant col- onel; H. P. Hawkins and Samuel ]Iontgom- ery, majors; during the remainder of the j^ear, 1862. the regiment saw service in south- west ^Missouri and Arkansas. It was then sent to ]Iemphis, Tennessee, and took part in the battles around Vicksburg, some of these battles being Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Greenville, Champions Hill, Black River and Bridgeport. From Vicksburg the regi- ment went to Jackson and then to Louisiana ; it served in Louisiana until the close of the war when it was nmstered out. The Tenth Alissouri Cavalry was organized at Camp Magazine near Jefferson Barracks, in December, 1862; its colonel was F. M. Cornyn ; the regiment was made up in large part of men from Southeast ^Missouri. After its organization it was sent to the South and was divided for a time, parts of it being sta- tioned at Helena, ilemphis, Columbus, Ken- tucky. In the early part of 1863 the regi- ment was brought together at Memphis and then sent to Tuscumbia and took part in the operations against General Vandorn; its fur- ther service was confined to northern ilissis- sippi and Alabama and won for itself an en- viable record for bravery and activity. The Engineer Regiment of West ^Missouri