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7th Regiment Missouri Cavalry, CSA

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Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke Division Commander	Solomon G. Kitchen Colonel, 7th Reg.	Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson

By authority of the Secretary of War, dated August 20, 1862, Colonel H. E. Clark recruited and equipped a regiment, which was known as Clark's Regiment of Recruits, Missouri Volunteers. In October, 1862, Colonel Clark was captured and his regiment appears to have broken up and the companies scattered. Having been exchanged, Colonel Clark returned to Missouri in January 1863, and collected eight companies of the regiment, which he organized into a battalion. Later two other companies of the old regiment were gotten together and joined the battalion. The battalion organization having been declared null and void, S. G. Kitchen was chosen Colonel in July, 1863, and the organization designated Kitchen's Regiment, Missouri Cavalry. The regiment was designated by the Confederate War Department as the 10th Missouri Cavalry and finally as the 7th Regiment Missouri Cavalry
1861	References from the Official Records and other sources	1864
1862	1863	1865

Much of the above information was extracted from The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies using software prepared by and with the permission of Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.

	Enlistment Rolls of the 7th by James E. McGhee	7th Missouri POW Deaths
	7th Missouri Unit History	S. G. Kitchen Biography by Ray Nichols
	Surrender and Parole	Personal Accounts & Miscellany
	Photo Roster of the 7th Missouri	Confederate Military History

Several years ago, my father recruited me (much in the same way Tom Sawyer recruited help with his fence project) to assist in the search for our family history. At that time we knew that Sam Meatt(e), my great-grandfather, fought for the Confederacy but little else about that aspect of his life. We were successful in finding his enlistment and other records in the National Archives. He enlisted in the 7th Missouri Cavalry on August 30, 1862 and surrendered on May 25, 1865. The 7th Missouri was a little known unit that fought the entire war in the Trans-Mississippi (Missouri and Arkansas). We hope that the creation of this web site will help provide some information about the 7th to others. If you have additional information on the 7th, its commander or individual soldiers that fought with the unit, I would appreciate hearing from you. Individual soldier information will be added to the web site once information is received and confirmed.

I would like to acknowledge James E. McGhee's contributions to the content of this page. Jim has been of considerable assistance in locating, providing and transcribing information on the 7th and its soldiers.Jim is the author of several books on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi and has published a new book, Missouri Confederates, A Guide to Sources for Confederate Soldiers and Units 1861-1865. It is an excellent resource for those researching information on Missouri units. The book is currently available from the Camp Pope web site (http://www.camppope.com)

Mark C. Meatte

Other Sites of Interest
Missouri Division-Sons of Confederate Veterans
Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet
Index of Civil War in Missouri Links
The American Civil War Homepage

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