Robert Bevier

Robert S. Bevier (April 28, 1834, Painted Post, New York – February 24, 1889, Owensboro, Kentucky) was an American military officer.

He was a Missouri colonel in the American Civil War and fought with the Confederate Army.

[2][3][4] With the coming of the Civil War, Bevier enlisted in the Confederate Missouri State Guard in 1861.

At the Battle of Pea Ridge on March 6–8, 1862, Bevier was in command of Bevier's Missouri Infantry Battalion which fought with the Missouri State Guard on the left wing of the Confederate forces.

It was captured en masse at the fall of Vicksburg[7] although paroled soldiers were formed into a consolidated 3rd and 5th Regiment which fought until the end of the war.