Kay, Reuben, Missouri Home Guard Military Orders to Capt. Kay, Photo, Sept. 14, 1860

Photograph

St. Joseph Museums

Reuben Kay Military Orders from MO Home Guard, 1860 (1)

Name/Title

Kay, Reuben, Missouri Home Guard Military Orders to Capt. Kay, Photo, Sept. 14, 1860

Entry/Object ID

P1993.1H.122

Description

Kay, Reuben, Missouri Home Guard Military Orders to Capt. Kay, Photo, Sept. 14, 1860. Copy of actual order in SJM collection (94.23.8). From Headquarters, 1st Batt, 4th Div. MVM St. Joseph, Missouri You and Commissioned Officers Requested to Attend Special Meeting of Battalion Officers. This request was signed by ? ? Tracy Adj. The meeting was to be held at Major Smith's Office near the Union Armory on Saturday night September 15 at half past seven o'clock. Dated September 14, 1860. Kay would later be important in St. Joseph's Confederate effort, a one-time prisoner of war of Union Army camps including Johnson's Island. SJM has letter Kay wrote home in its collection. (94.23.9) St. Joseph, Missouri resident Reuben Kay was an aide to Colonel John Taylor Hughes, 1st Infantry, 4th Division, Missouri State Guard (Confederate) and fought at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861. Kay was a graduate of the Kentucky Military Institute. Later in the war, Kay served as adjutant of the 7th Missouri Cavalry and became assistant adjutant general on the staff of General M. Jeff Thompson. In August 1863 he was captured in Randolph County, Arkansas and was sent to prison camps in Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Johnson's Island, Ohio, before being paroled in early 1865. After the war he returned to St. Joseph, but finding it changed, he moved to Frankfort, Tennessee, and went into the dry goods business. Reuben Kay died of pneumonia on December 18, 1883 at the age of 44.

Made/Created

Artist

unknown

Date made

1860

Place

Location

UNKNOWN

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Kay Family, Missouri Home Guard

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

10 in

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jul 14, 1992

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Reuben Kay

Related Entries

Notes

66.24.1 A, 66.24.1 B, 66.24.2 A, 66.24.2 B, 66.24.3 A-B, 66.24.4, AM1966.024.00008, AM1966.024.00009, AM1994.023.00008, AM1994.023.00009, P1993.01H.00115, P1993.01H.00116, P1993.01H.00117

Provenance

Notes

Copy of military order in SJM collection made by Don Reynolds, SJM staff photographer, 1966