With Porter in North Missouri: A Chapter in the History of the War Between the States - Softcover

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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Joseph Aloysius Mudd (1841-1916) was a young medical student from Millwood, Lincoln County, Missouri, living in St. Louis. On June 15, 1861, he joined the Missouri State Guard regiment of John Q. Burbridge, and fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in southwest Missouri (August 10, 1861). At the expiration of his term of service, Mudd returned home to his studies. However, a peaceful life in Yankee-occupied Missouri was not possible for the pro-Southern young man. He sought out and joined a new Confederate regiment being recruited clandestinely by Colonel Joseph Porter. Mudd rode with Porter and fought in several small, local battles, after one of which (Moore's Mill, July 28, 1862), he decided to leave the regiment. He departed Missouri for his uncle's home in Bryantown, Maryland, finished his medical studies at the University of Maryland, and rejoined the Confederate service as an assistant surgeon at Howard's Grove Hospital near! Richmond, Virginia, where he served until the end of the war.