You may be referring to Capt Hiram Bledsoe, who's Battery figured prominently in some of the early battles in Missouri, including Lexington, Sep 1861. "At the beginning of the war between the States, in 1861, he [Hiram M. Bledsoe] organized the 1st Missouri Battery, which afterwards became famous as 'Bledsoe's Battery.' One of his guns was called 'Old Sacramento,' and was captured by Col. Doniphan's men at the battle of Sacramento.[Mexican War]" "Capt Hiram Bledsoe had been wounded in the groin at Big Dry Creek on Sep 2 [1861]. He directed his gun from a rocking chair [at Lexington]. 225