PROVISIONAL ENROLLED MISSOURI MILITIA
County Origins of Specified Units
by Kirby Ross
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| Within months of the creation of the Enrolled Missouri Militia it became evident to the Union command in St. Louis that the use of part-time soldiers was not the answer to addressing the rebellion in the state. Consequently it was decided to detail “picked men” from the EMM into a new, full-time organization. The result was the Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia (aka the Detailed Militia).
One independent PEMM company and eleven PEMM regiments were formed in the different regions of Missouri. All of these units, along with the EMM regiments and counties from which they were drawn, are listed below.1 |
PRIMARY EMM UNITS COUNTIES
REGIMENT OPERATIONAL AREA DRAWN FROM DRAWN FROM COMMANDNG OFFICER
1st PEMM Northeast Missouri 27th EMM St. Charles County Col. Joseph B. Douglass
46th EMM Howard County
“ Randolph County
49th EMM Pike County
61st EMM Boone County
62nd EMM Macon County
“ Linn County
67th EMM Montgomery County
75th EMM St. Charles County
Callaway Independent EMM Callaway County
1st Battalion EMM Pike County
2nd PEMM Northeast Missouri 29th EMM Scotland County Col. Edward A. Kutzer
37th EMM Lincoln County
45th EMM Putnam County
50th EMM Knox County
“ Adair County
53rd EMM Ralls County
59th EMM Warren County
62nd EMM Macon County
“ Linn County
66th EMM Sullivan County
69th EMM Clark County
“ Lewis County
70th EMM Monroe County
“ Shelby County
3rd PEMM Northwest Missouri 25th EMM Buchanan County Col. William Heron
31st EMM Gentry County Col. Bennett Pike
36th EMM Nodaway County
39th EMM Platte County
41st EMM Andrew County
57th EMM Harrison County
58th EMM Atchison County
“ Holt County
4th PEMM Northwest Missouri 25th EMM Buchanan County Col. John B. Hale
30th EMM Grundy County
31st EMM Gentry County
33rd EMM Daviess County
“ Caldwell County
35th EMM Chariton County
44th EMM Mercer County
48th EMM Clay County
“ Clinton County
51st EMM Ray County
57th EMM Harrison County
65th EMM Carroll County
“ Livingston County
Mercer Independent EMM Mercer County
5th PEMM West Central Missouri 40th EMM Pettis County Col. Henry Neill
60th EMM Osage Valley
71st EMM Lafayette County
“ Saline County
77th EMM Jackson County
6th PEMM Southwest Missouri 26th EMM Polk County Col. Henry Sheppard
72nd EMM Greene County Col. F. S. Jones
“ Christian County
73rd EMM Laclede County
“ Douglas County
“ Dallas County
74th EMM Lawrence County
“ Webster County
Kelly’s Independent Southwest Missouri 26th EMM Polk County Capt. Morgan Kelly
PEMM company
Note: Was operating as an indepedent PEMM company in the summer of 1863, but was integrated into the 6th PEMM as Company I on September 6.
7th PEMM Southwest Missouri 26th EMM Polk County Col. John D. Allen
72nd EMM Greene County
“ Christian County
73rd EMM Laclede County
“ Douglas County
“ Dallas County
76th EMM Lawrence
8th PEMM Southeast Missouri 32nd EMM Washington Co. Col. William H. McLane
56th EMM Cape Girardeau County
64th EMM Perry County
68th EMM Iron County
“ Wayne County
“ Madison County
78th EMM Ste. Genevieve County
Bollinger Independent EMM Bollinger County
9th PEMM Central/East Central 28th EMM Osage County Col. Thomas L. Crawford
Missouri 34th EMM Gasconade County
42nd EMM Cole County
43rd EMM Moniteau County
47th EMM Camden County
52nd EMM Cooper County
Maries Independent EMM Maries County
10th PEMM 2 St. Louis 1st thru 16th EMM St. Louis Col. C. D. Wolf (10 days)
11th PEMM 2 St. Louis 1st thru 16th EMM St. Louis Col. John Knapp (1 day)
Col. Henry H. Catherwood (6 days)
1 Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Second General Assembly of the State of Missouri, Appointed to Investigate the Conduct and Management of the Militia (Jefferson City, Mo.: W.A. Curry, Public Printer, 1864), pp. 224-233; Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri, December 15, 1862 (St. Louis: Adjutant General’s Office, 1862), pp. 11-12
2 Intended to replace U. S. Volunteers stationed at New Madrid in southeast Missouri. There were limited desertions in the 10th PEMM and mass desertions and mutiny in the 11th PEMM. For more on this story, see “The St. Louis Mutiny of the Provisionals”.