- Name: John Dunlap Stevenson
- Sex: M
- Birth: June 8, 1821, born in Staunton, Virginia
- Death: January 22, 1897 in St. Louis, MO and is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, Plot: Block 90, Lot 2115 and is listed on FAGrave
- Note: Franklin County Veterans Hall of Honor: The War With Mexico
Brigadier General John Dunlap Stevenson soldier, born
in Staunton, Virginia, 8 June, 1821. He spent two years in the College of South
Carolina, was graduated in law at Staunton in 1841, and in 1842 began practice
in Franklin county, Missouri. He organized a volunteer company in 1846, and
served in General Stephen W. Kearny's invasion of New Mexico. After his return
he removed to St. Louis, was frequently a member of the legislature, president
for one term of the state senate, and in 1861 was an earnest supporter of the
Union. In that year he raised the 7th Missouri regiment, and during the siege of
Corinth commanded the district of Savannah. He then led a brigade in Tennessee,
was made brigadier-general of volunteers, 29 November, 1862, served in the
Vicksburg campaign, and made a charge at Champion Hill that broke the enemy's
left flank. He led a successful expedition to drive the Confederates from
northern Louisiana, commanded the district of Corinth, and then occupied and
fortified Decatur, Alabama On 8 August, 1864, being left without a command, he
resigned; but he was re-commissioned and given the district of Harper's Ferry.
During the reconstruction period he was in charge of northern Georgia. At the
close of the war he was made brevet major-general of volunteers, and in 1867,
for his services at Champion Hill, brevetted brigadier-general in the regular
army, in which he had been commissioned a colonel on 28 July, 1866. He left the
army in 1871, and has practiced law in St. Louis. 7
Father: Levi Lamb Stevenson
Mother: Elisabeth Dunlap
Marriage Hanna
Stevenson b: ABT 1820 in Virginia
Lizzie
Stevenson