* Andrew Co MO: * Civil War Militias, Andrew Co - Goodspeed's 1888 History of Andrew & DeKalb Counties has quite a few pages on the county in the Civil War. Andrew Co info is on pages 222-228.
ADELHART, Frederick. Frederick fought in the Civil War with the 10th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He and his wife were living in Monroe Township in 1900. They had a son, William Ernest Adelhart who married Nellie Marie ROYSTON. Alison Fuchs (Nov 26, 2001)
"The BENNETT family came to Empire Prairie in NE Andrew County in the mid 1850's from Sussex Wisconsin, having been there only a few
years from earlier coming to the US., and into Canada.... When the Confederates (hooligans, as they were viewed by the Bennett family) were riding down the road looking for northern sympathizers,
my great-great grand father would place himself in the basement, in the
bottom of the chimney well/flue, until they passed. The next night or two
the Yankee (hooligans still) sympathizers would come down the same road
looking for confederate supporters, and Gramps would find himself back in
the basement and chimney. That's the extent they had in the war effort.
Apparently that's all they knew about it, and all that was ever said." John L. Bennett, jbennett10@kc.rr.com (2004 post at MOAndrew-L)
GEORGE, Ezra died in 1863 and was buried near his Andrew Co home, in the family cemetery, McGlothlin. Isaac Newton GEORGE, his brother, survived the war. In 1864 Isaac became a private in Company B, of the 21st Regiment in the Missouri Infantry. According to on-line data, the 21st was involved in the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely (AL) and were stationed at Mobile and Montgomery, AL while Isaac was serving.
* HOLT, Solomon, Obituary - Served in Co. G of the 85th Illinois Infantry
* KEELEY, John Wesley Keeley. He fought in the Civil War and was discharged in St. Joseph in 1865. Jacque Blotz (Jan 21, 2001)
* MALONEY, Richard. Richard Maloney came to this country about 1857 from Ireland and he served as a Union Soldier in the Civil War, signing up in Mo. After the war he went to Tx. for a time and fought the Indians, then came back to Mo. He had a son, John Hirman Maloney b. 6-4-1867 in Cosby, Mo. Richard also had another son, William. I think Richard was married to Americas Beckett. Joyce Rhodes (Oct 26 1997)
* STARKWEATHER (Charles E.) lived in Savannah from about 1862-1869, owning land in Savannah from after the Civil War until 1869. He served in the Civil War out of St. Joseph, but his home was Savannah. C.E. served in the 42nd regiment out of St. Joseph. He and wife Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane WORTHEN STARKWEATHER had at least 3 children born in Andrew Co between 1863 and 1867. Charles sold mercantile goods to the St. Joseph-Denver City Railroad. Somewhere he gave his occupation as "mechanic", perhaps for the railroad or a steamboat, before coming to northwest Missouri. When C.E. could not pay his taxes and the land was put up for sale by the sheriff, C.E. moved his family to Iowa. His son William G. Starkweather was born in St. Joseph MO in 1861. Richard's daughter Cora E. was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Savannah. Although Richard served in the Civil War, he never received a pension. Jackie Hart Stegeman (Feb 24, 1999 and Sep 27, 2000)
Effects of the Civil War on Andrew County, MO