Original CIVIL WAR CDV PHOTO CONFEDERATE COLONEL JOHN M STEMMONS DALLAS TEXAS

  

2.5x4 inches in excellent condition. Rivers gallery st louis mo.

Photographers mark on reverse with stamp. Colonel stemmons was born in kentucky aug. 21, 1830 and moved to greenfield missouri in 1855. With the threat of war he joined colonel clarkson's fifth regiment of missouri state guards as a private following general sterling price.

13 days after enlisment he was made captain and assigned duty as a staff officer in which capacity he witnessed the overthrow of general lyon, at wilson's creek, where general price and mcculloch gained one of the signal victories of the war. Buster, then adjutant of clarkson's regiment having been disabled by a bayonet wound in this engagement, colonel stemmons was ordered to take his place, and as such he bore himself gallantly in the engagement at dry woods, which soon followed. Colonel stemmons had his horse wounded under him in this engagement. He fought multiple battles and skirmishes and when the enlistment of the regiment expired, he declined to lay his arms down and again enlisted in a battalion of state troops.

He was elected a lt. Colonel of the command and as its leader he rode at its head at the battle of elk horn in arkansas, where he was slightly wounded. Later in the war he was severly wounded and made prisoner of war. After the war he moved his family to dallas where he became an attorney.

His name is synonymous with dallas history as he his son leslie and grandson name samesake john stemmons were important in shaping the history of dallas texas. A fine addition to your collection. The item "Original CIVIL WAR CDV PHOTO CONFEDERATE COLONEL JOHN M STEMMONS DALLAS TEXAS" is in sale since Thursday, December 08, 2016.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "mustangace" and is located in Desoto, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States.