Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Richard gara Old Masonic College dị na Lexington ruo mgbe ọ gbara afọ 17. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ rụrụ ọrụ otu afọ dị ka osote odeakwụkwọ na onye na-edekọ ihe n'ụlọikpe, mgbe ahụ Agha Obodo America malitere. O sonyeere ndị agha Confederate dị ka onye nkịtị na Ngalaba nke 8, n'okpuru iwu nke Brigadier General James S. Rains, na Lt. Col. John Bowman's 2nd Infantry regiment nke Missouri State Guards. Private Keith lụrụ agha na Lexington, Agha nke Wilson's Creek, na Agha nke Pea Ridge. Mgbe ahụ ọ gara Memphis, sonyeere batrị Landis (John C. Landis) nke Missouri ma lụọ ọgụ na 1st na 2nd Agha nke Kọrịnt, agha nke Iuka, Hatchie River, Grand Gulf
, Fort Gibson,