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"Birge's Western Sharpshooters" was a multi-state, Federal unit organized at St. Louis, Missouri and mustered into federal service on November 23, 1861. Initially two companies were raised in Ohio, three in Illinois, one in Michigan, and four were organized at St Louis' Benton Barracks of Missourians and detachments of volunteer candidates sent by recruiting officers from Iowa, Minnesota and ...
Horace E. Dimick was a gunsmith and firearms dealer active in St. Louis, Missouri from 1849 through the early 1870s. Dimick expanded from a small custom gun store, to a larger emporium selling a variety of firearms and even manufacturing cannons.
From August to September, 1861, he helped raise a company of men for military service, and reported to Benton Barracks at St. Louis, Missouri, for induction. He was appointed captain of Company E, Birge's Western Sharpshooters (later, the 66th Illinois). From December 1861, to February 3, 1862, he participated in the north central Missouri ...
The regiment was raised by MG John C. Fremont at St. Louis' Benton Barracks as the Western Theater counterpart to Berdan's sharpshooters. Members were recruited from most of the Western states, predominantly Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Missouri.
The regiment included two Independent Sharpshooters (ISS) companies: Company A formerly "Company A, Holman's Independent Battalion of Sharpshooters" and Company B (Captain John Welker) formerly "Company A, Birge's Western Sharpshooters". Company A was armed with Sharps carbines and Company B was armed (at least initially) with Dimick long ...
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Burke was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, around 1830, the son of Walter Burke. [1] As a child his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri.On April 8, 1846, he entered the Vincentian Seminary at St. Mary of the Barrens in Perryville, Missouri as a secular student.