Robert Bevier

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Robert S. Bevier (April 28, 1834, Painted Post, New York – February 24, 1889, Owensboro, Kentucky) was an American military officer. He was a Missouri colonel in the American Civil War and fought with the Confederate Army.[1]

Bevier fought in the Wakarusa War against Kansas Jayhawkers in 1855. He opened a law practice in Macon, Missouri in 1858, and was a founder of Bevier, Missouri, which was laid out in 1858 and named for him.[2][3][4]

With the coming of the Civil War, Bevier enlisted in the Confederate

lieutenant.[2][5]

The regiment was involved in nearly continuous combat during the war. The regiment went on to fight in the Iuka-Corinth Campaign at

Vicksburg Campaign. It was captured en masse at the fall of Vicksburg[7] although paroled soldiers were formed into a consolidated 3rd and 5th Regiment which fought until the end of the war. Robert Bevier was one of two Lieutenant Colonels in this consolidated regiment.[8]

Bevier later wrote a war history, A History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, published in 1879.[9]

Works

  • Bevier, R. S. (1879). History Of The First And Second Missouri Confederate Brigades: 1861 - 1865 And From Wakarusa To Appomattox, A Military Anagraph. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand and Company.
    ISBN 978-1492310273
    . Retrieved February 16, 2017.

References

  1. ^ "Soldier Details – Bevier , Robert S." National Park Service. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0786400164
    . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  3. ISBN 978-1340907884
    . Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  4. ^ "Colonel R. S. Bevier — Bevier, MO". Waymarking.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  5. ^ "Order of Battle". Pea Ridge National Military Park website. National Park Service. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Missouri State Pension Archives for Confederate Soldiers, cited at "Colonel R. S. Bevier — Bevier, MO". Waymarking.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  7. ^ Jason A. Stewart (November 2009). "Remembering the Confederacy's Forgotten Warriors: The Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment". H-Net. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  8. ISBN 978-0786400164
    .
  9. ^ "History Of The First And Second Missouri Confederate Brigades: 1861 - 1865 And From Wakarusa To Appomattox, A Military Anagraph (product description)". Amazon.com. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

Further reading

  • Tucker, Phillip Thomas (1995). Westerners in Gray: The Men and Missions of the Elite Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment. McFarland & Company.
    ISBN 978-0786400164
    .

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