Living in Stoddard County in southeastern Missouri, Solomon George Kitchen made his living as a surveyor before studying law. Kitchen served as a judge and state senator, but running as a secessionist, lost his election to be a dele-gate to the 1861 Missouri State Convention. Kitchen joined the Missouri State Guard in June 1861, as captain of Company C, 2d Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel by September 1861. In January 1862, Kitchen mustered into Confederate service as captain of Company B, 2d Missouri Cavalry (CSA). In October 1862, Kitchen resigned to assume com-mand of Clark’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion (CSA) as a lieutenant colonel. When the battalion was reorganized in July 1863 as the 7th Missouri Cavalry (CSA), Kitchen was promoted to colonel and placed in command. Leading his regiment during the fight at Byram's Ford on October 23, 1864, Kitchen was wounded. At the end of the war, Kitchen surrendered and was paroled in Wittsburg, Arkansas, on May 25, 1865. After the war, Kitchen returned to Missouri and resumed practicing law.
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