Grenville Llewellyn Gove, son of Moses Johnson, born in 1840 at Readfield, Maine, moved from Boston in the 1850s to join the anti-slavery New England Emigrant Aid Colony in Manhattan, Kansas.
He enlisted in Company F, Sixth Kansas cavalry as a private, but was soon made a corporal. In the summer of 1862 he was assigned to duty as a recruiting officer and raised Company G, Eleventh Kansas cavalry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. In May, 1864, he was promoted to captain and remained in command of the company until his death at Olathe, Kan., Nov. 7, 1864. Gove county and a Grand Army post at Manhattan have been named in his honor.
—Sources include http://www.govecountyks.com/history and Page 768 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, ... Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
He enlisted in Company F, Sixth Kansas cavalry as a private, but was soon made a corporal. In the summer of 1862 he was assigned to duty as a recruiting officer and raised Company G, Eleventh Kansas cavalry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. In May, 1864, he was promoted to captain and remained in command of the company until his death at Olathe, Kan., Nov. 7, 1864. Gove county and a Grand Army post at Manhattan have been named in his honor.
—Sources include http://www.govecountyks.com/history and Page 768 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, ... Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
Grenville Llewellyn Gove, son of Moses Johnson, born in 1840 at Readfield, Maine, moved from Boston in the 1850s to join the anti-slavery New England Emigrant Aid Colony in Manhattan, Kansas.
He enlisted in Company F, Sixth Kansas cavalry as a private, but was soon made a corporal. In the summer of 1862 he was assigned to duty as a recruiting officer and raised Company G, Eleventh Kansas cavalry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. In May, 1864, he was promoted to captain and remained in command of the company until his death at Olathe, Kan., Nov. 7, 1864. Gove county and a Grand Army post at Manhattan have been named in his honor.
—Sources include http://www.govecountyks.com/history and Page 768 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, ... Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
He enlisted in Company F, Sixth Kansas cavalry as a private, but was soon made a corporal. In the summer of 1862 he was assigned to duty as a recruiting officer and raised Company G, Eleventh Kansas cavalry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. In May, 1864, he was promoted to captain and remained in command of the company until his death at Olathe, Kan., Nov. 7, 1864. Gove county and a Grand Army post at Manhattan have been named in his honor.
—Sources include http://www.govecountyks.com/history and Page 768 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, ... Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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Capt 11th KS Cav; Olathe
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