Daniel Boone Pinegar's Military Career in the CSA Cavalry.
Copyright 2007 Kent Pinegar
This is a work in progress.
As I find information, I will add it.
Daniel enlisted for service in the Confederate Army on 7 June 1863, in
Hartville, Wright Co., MO. On 29 February 1864, he was mustered,
as a
Private, into Company A, 14th Battalion, Missouri Cavalry Volunteers
CSA, under Lt. Colonel Robert C. Wood. His unit was
assigned to Marmaduke's Brigade, lead by Brigadier General
John Bullock Clark, Jr., in Marmaduke's Division, and under Major
General John Sappington Marmaduke. The Missouri Confederate Army
was
under the command of Gen. Sterling Price.
The first action I can say, with some certainty, that Daniel was
involved in was at the Battle of
Poison Springs, in Arkansas on 18 April
1864. What he did from muster
to Poison Springs, I don't know yet. He saw action at
Jenkins Ferry, and chased Union forces, under Gen. Steele, back to
Little Rock, AR.
Daniel participated in Price's 1864 Misssouri Expedition, 31 Aug to 19
Dec 1864.
Wood's battalion of cavalry was part of 1,200 men that left Tulip, AR.
on the morning of 31 Aug 1864, on the Benton Road, as the advance of
the Army of Missouri. He saw action at Pilot Knob. Wood's
battalion was dispatched to destroy railroad depots, etc., at Cuba, MO,
on 29 Sept, and rode a train to destroy the Gasconade Bridge on 4
Oct. Information on Price's Expedition through MO can be found in
several books and on the web, so I will not add anymore detail.
After a mostly unsuccessful trek through Missouri, Kansas, and Indian
Territory (Oklahoma). Gen. Price and his 6,000 men re-entered
Arkansas, and Confederate controlled territory, on 2 Dec 1864, at
Laynesport, Arkansas. He was quoted as saying he marched 1,434
miles; fought forty-three battles and skirmishes; captured and paroled
over 3,000 Federal officers and men.
I don't remember where I read this, but apparently Gen. Price marched
his army to the area around Shreveport, LA, which was the Headquaters
of the Confederate Army in the West. The next major move was the
surrender by Gen. Price in New Orleans, LA, on 26 May 1865. At
this point, all Confederate troops marched to Shreveport, LA for
disposition. Daniel was paroled at Shreveport, LA, on
7 June 1865.
References:
1) Report of Gen. John B. Clark, Jr., Price's 1864 Missouri Expedition.
http://www.missouridivision-scv.org/johnbclark1864moraidreport.htm.
2) THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL MARMADUKE BY JAMES DUNLAVY AN IOWA PRIVATE
CAVALRYMAN, Excerpted from the Iowa Journal of History and Politics,
April, 1913. Iowa State Historical Society. URL:
mobile96.com/muster2003/M2003/DUNLAVY.pdf.
3) Edwards, John, Shelby and His Men,
1867.
4) Joseph Orville Shelby, http://www.civilwarhistory.com/shelby.htm.
5) Bearss, Edwin C., Steele's
Retreat From Camden and the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, 1995.