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Prominent Colorado Confederate Veterans
State Governors
James B. Grant (1883-1885) Private, Company B, 20th Alabama Light Artillery
Battalion - CSA
Charles S. Thomas (1899-1901) Private, Georgia State Militia - CSA
US Senator
Charles S. Thomas (1913-1921) Private, Georgia State Militia - CSA
US Congressman
Atterson W. Rucker (1909 -1913) Private, 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment -
CSA
Colorado House of Representatives
Michael Beshoar (1881-1882) Major, 7th Arkansas Infantry-CSA
Erasmus I. Stirman (1885-1886) Colonel, 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment - CSA
Colorado Superior Court Judge
Melville B. Gerry (1888-1889) 1st Lieutenant, Company K, 3rd Florida
Infantry Regiment - CSA
Adjutant General Colorado State Militia
Sidney A. Sheppard (1883-1885) Lieutenant 3rd Division MO State Guard
Judges
Charles E. Broyles (Conejos County) Colonel, 36th Georgia Infantry Regiment
- CSA
Alfred N. Crowell (Bonanza Town Justice of the Peace) Corporal, 4th Virginia
Infantry Regiment - CSA
William B. Ragland (Denver District) Captain, 24th Arkansas
Infantry Regiment-CSA
David C. Smith (Gunnison County) Captain, Company D, 2nd Kentucky Mounted
Rifles Battalion - CSA
Public Safety Officials
Homer Barnard - Mesa County Constable, Private, 2nd North Carolina Infantry
Regiment-CSA
James M. Lomery - Denver Police Chief (1881 -1885) Captain,
2nd Louisiana Militia Regiment – CSA
Daniel W. Mays – Denver Police Chief (1871 – 1873) Captain,
9th Missouri Cavalry - CSA
City/County Officials
Isaac Bricker (Arapahoe County Assessor) Lt Colonel, 9th Missouri Cavalry
Regiment-CSA
Charles D. Cobb (Denver City Supervisor) Captain, Missouri
State Guard-CSA
James M. Ellis (Denver City Attorney) Corporal, Company D,
1st Mississippi Light Artillery Regiment-CSA
John B. Elrod (Garfield County School Board) Private,
Shelby’s Div-MO Cavalry-CSA
John D. Henry (Pueblo City Clerk & Recorder) Private,
Company K, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry regiment - CSA
John C. Moore (first Mayor of Denver) Lt. Colonel, General
Marmaduke’s Staff-CSA
Joel Alexander Pace (Corona Town Mayor) Captain, Company I,
3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment-CSA
Burnell Russell Ragland (Arapahoe County Election Judge)
Lieutenant, 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment-CSA
Lewis Clark Railey (South Pueblo Board of Trustees) Captain,
Army of Trans-Mississippi - CSA (QM Dept)
Martin H. Steele Railey (Denver City Board of Trustees)
Private, Company F, Colonel Madison’s Texan Cavalry Regiment
Jesse Eugene Ray (Jefferson County Commissioner) Private,
Company A, 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment-CSA
William W. Rives (Marysville City Mayor) Private, Company K,
10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment - CSA
Henry T. Sale (Garfield County Attorney) 1st Lt, 7th
Tennessee Cavalry Regiment-CSA
William M. Strickler (Mayor Colorado Springs 1888-1894 & El
Paso County Superintendent of Schools) Surgeon Hays LA
Ashabel Stanard Welch (El Paso County Deputy Clerk
1870-1879)
William Riddick Whitehead (Denver City Councilman) Surgeon,
44th Virginia Infantry Regiment-CSA
Jesse M. Walker (Mesa County Assessor) Corporal, Company D,
24th Georgia Infantry Regiment - CSA
Samuel Watson (Hindsdale County Commissioner) Private,
Company G, 2nd Virginia Infantry-CSA
Other
Edwin Preston Harman (Clerk-Denver Branch US Land Office) Lieutenant,
Company I, 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Joel Addison Hayes (1818 – 1919)
**Charter member and first president of the Colorado Bankers
Association & husband of Margaret Howell Davis
Charles C. Hemming (1916)
** President of the Colorado Bankers Association
Doctor Isaac Drake McDowell (1831-1882) Lt. Colonel, 8th Missouri Cavalry
Regiment-CSA
** Charter member and elected the first Secretary of the
Jefferson Territory Medical Society (Denver’s first medical association
formed in 1860)
William P. McLure (US Postmaster-Denver) Captain, Missouri
State Guard-CSA
Sir-Henry Morgan Stanley (1841-1904) Private, Company E, 6th Arkansas
Infantry Regiment-CSA
** Moved to Colorado after the War and lived with his sister
(Elizabeth Rowland Rees) for several years before he began his quest for Dr.
Livingston
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