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"The brothers enrolled at the call of the governor for 50,000 men for six months.They enlisted in the Missouri State Guard, fighting at Carthage, Wilson's Creek, and Lexington.They then joined the Confederate army in December of 1861, fighting at Belmont, Missouri and Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Russell DuVal died at Corinth planting the flag on top of the Union breastworks. Just as he shouted "Victory", he was killed. Henderson and Thomas Isaac died at Baker's Creek (Champion Hill) during the Vicksburg Campaign."
(Article and picture from 'North & South, The Magazine of Civil War Conflict' - Volume 2 Number 5 - written by William Garrettt Piston and Thomas P. Sweeney.)