Embracing Local History: Part 98 – THE CAPTAIN HARRIS MANSION - CHAPTER 3 – THE TINSMAN CONNECTION
Captain Thomas Clark Harris (1824-1887) moved his family to Kirksville, Mo., after serving as a 1st Lieutenant, a 2nd Lieutenant and a Captain in the Civil War. His last assignment was with Company H of the 7th Missouri Cavalry. This happened to be the same unit with which a man named Jacob Alfred Tinsman of Adair County served as a Sergeant. Readers may remember that in Part 88 of this history, Jacob had been stationed a short distance from the Westenhaver farmhouse when Corporal Hervey Dix became the first casualty of the Civil War in Adair County in 1861. Jacob had heard the gunfire and set...
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