Enlisted in Co. C, 12th Missouri Cavalry on 1 Nov 1863 at Maysville, MO.
Died of smallpox at the contagious disease hospital on Arsenal/Quarantine Island and was buried there. After a flood in 1876 washed away all headboards and means of identification, was one of 470 soldiers reinterred at Jefferson Barracks as an Unknown Soldier.
Sources: Missouri Digital Heritage and volume XX, Roll of Honor
Died of smallpox at the contagious disease hospital on Arsenal/Quarantine Island and was buried there. After a flood in 1876 washed away all headboards and means of identification, was one of 470 soldiers reinterred at Jefferson Barracks as an Unknown Soldier.
Sources: Missouri Digital Heritage and volume XX, Roll of Honor
Enlisted in Co. C, 12th Missouri Cavalry on 1 Nov 1863 at Maysville, MO.
Died of smallpox at the contagious disease hospital on Arsenal/Quarantine Island and was buried there. After a flood in 1876 washed away all headboards and means of identification, was one of 470 soldiers reinterred at Jefferson Barracks as an Unknown Soldier.
Sources: Missouri Digital Heritage and volume XX, Roll of Honor
Died of smallpox at the contagious disease hospital on Arsenal/Quarantine Island and was buried there. After a flood in 1876 washed away all headboards and means of identification, was one of 470 soldiers reinterred at Jefferson Barracks as an Unknown Soldier.
Sources: Missouri Digital Heritage and volume XX, Roll of Honor
Gravesite Details
Roll of Honor lists name as James Colran (probably due to poor handwriting)
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