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4 unusual facts about Samuel Ryan Curtis


Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

Robert H. Carnahan

In December of 1861, his unit became part of the Army of the Southwest Missouri led by General Samuel Ryan Curtis.

Samuel Ryan Curtis

In 1864, Curtis returned to Missouri, fighting against the Confederate invasion led by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

After Pea Ridge, Curtis' small army moved east and invaded northeast Arkansas, capturing the city of Helena, Arkansas in July.


Franklin Archibald Dick

He was assistant adjutant general to Nathaniel Lyon at Camp Jackson (the first Missouri Civil War incident); Missouri provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis; law partner with Montgomery Blair at the Blair House in Washington D C after the Civil War.


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