. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. ri. In 1861 he en-tered the Confederate army as a member ofthe Ninth Missouri Infantry imder GeneralsParsons and John B. Clark, and saw somehard service. He was in the battle of Lex-ington and the Black Water campaign, wherehe was taken prisoner and carried to , iwo months later lie was sent to-Alton, Jllinois, where he remained ninemonths. There six hundred prisoners wereincarcerated, some of whom were reprievedby taking the oath of allegiance to the gov-ernment ; many died of measl
. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. ri. In 1861 he en-tered the Confederate army as a member ofthe Ninth Missouri Infantry imder GeneralsParsons and John B. Clark, and saw somehard service. He was in the battle of Lex-ington and the Black Water campaign, wherehe was taken prisoner and carried to , iwo months later lie was sent to-Alton, Jllinois, where he remained ninemonths. There six hundred prisoners wereincarcerated, some of whom were reprievedby taking the oath of allegiance to the gov-ernment ; many died of measles and onlysixty were left to be exchanged. These weretaken to Nicksburg and from there to HorseHead Lake, above Little Rock, where theyformed the Ninth Missouri Infantry, andwere in a number of hotly contested engage-ments ill Arkansas and Louisiana, includingthe battles of Little Rock, Mansfield, Pleas-ant Hill and Jenkins Ferry. The Doctorwas with Cienerals Buckner and Price whenthey surrendered to General Canby; theNinth Missouri Infantry, commanded byLieutenant-Colonel Gaines, the Doctor being. M. ?U, ^id-^^^c^. ?c^<<^ ^ VORK \\ t. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 309 the adjutant, Iiaving l^een detailed to takecharge of all supplies at Shreveport until thearri\al of the federal troops fnjni BatonRouge; after which, with other Confed-erates, he was sent on transports to He made his way home withouta dollar in money, with no clothing, excepthis uniform, and health so impaired as torequire a six-months vacation to recuperate. Dr. Rhoades commenced the study ofmedicine under the preceptorship of M. Powell, of Collinsville, Illinois, wherein partnership with that gentleman he alsoconducted a drug store. In 1866 he attend-ed lectures at the St. Louis IMedical Col-lege, where he was graduated, in 1868, andfor a year engaged in practice at his oldhome in Saline county. In 1870 he movedto Bigelow, and a year later came to Gra-ham, where he has since successfully en-gage
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