I have the discharge of John Brannon from the Civil War, he was in Co. C & A of the missouri Volunteers. Pretty interesting history.

Union Missouri Volunteers
8th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry
Organized at Springfield, Missouri, from August 6th to September 15, 1862.
Attached to the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Divison, Army of the Frontier, Department of Missouri to June, 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, District of Southwest Missouri, Department of Missouri to August 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition to December 1863.
2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition Army of Arkansas to January 1864.
7th Army Corps, Department of Arkansas to May 1864.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps to September 1864.
3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps to Februay, 1865.
2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps to March 1865.
1st Separate Cavalry Brigade, 7th Army Corps to July 1865.

Service: Springfield Missouri August 9, 1862.
Blount's Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas October 17 to December 27.
Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas December 7.
Expedition from Fayetteville to Huntsville December 21 to 23.
Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren December 27 to December 29.
Bloomfield, Missouri May 12, 1863.
Joined Davidson's Division at Pilot Knob, Missouri June 1863.
March to Clarendon on White River, Arkansas, Steele's Expedition against Little Rock, Arkansas August 1 to September 10.
Grand Prairie August 17.
Brownsville August 25.
Bayou Metoe or Reed's Bridge August 27.
Reconnoissance from Brownville August 29.
Ferry's Landing September 7.
Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock September 10.
Pursuit of Price September 11 to 14.
Near Little Rock September 11.
Duty at Little Rock until March 1864.
Duvall's Bluff December 1 and December 12, 1863 (Detachments).
Indian Bay February 16, 1864.
Clarendon March 15.
Fitzhugh's Woods near Augusta April 1st (Detachment).
Cache River Cotton Plant April 21 to 22.
Operations against Shelby north of the Arkansas River May 12 - 31.
Stony Point May 20.
Searcy June 3 (Detachment).
Bealer's Ferry, Little Red River August 6 - 16.
Jones' Hay Station and Long Prairie August 24.
Expedition in pursuit of Shelby August 27 - September 6.
Expedition from Lewisburg to Strahan Landing November 26 - December 2.
Expedition from Brownsville to Augusta January 4 - 27 (Detachment).
Duty in the Department of Arkansas till July.
Mustered out July 20, 1865

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 26 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 352 men by disease.
Total 382. (Civil War Service by National Parks Service)