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PARSONS, Mosby Monroe, soldier, born in Virginia in 1819; died in Camargo, Mexico, 17 August, 1865. He removed to Cole county, Maine, early in life, practised law, was attorney-general of Missouri in 1853-'7, and subsequently became a member of the state senate. He was a captain in the United States army during the Mexican war, and received honorable mention for his service at Sacramento. At the beginning of the civil war he acted in concert with Governor Claiborne F. Jackson in his endeavor to draw Missouri into the Confederacy, was active in organizing the state militia, and raised a mounted brigade which he commanded at Carthage, Springfield, and Pea Ridge, with the rank of brigadier-general, subsequently serving under General Sterling Price until the last invasion of Missouri in 1864. The next year he went to Mexico, joined the Republican forces, and was killed in an engagement with the imperialists.
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