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MURDER OF JAMES BOYER.
In the spring of 1862, James Boyer, then chairman of the board of trus- tees, of Arrow Rock, met his death at the Main street wharf, in that town, at the hands of one William Chase, a militiaman, who discharged the con- tents of one chamber of his pistol into the forehead of the unfortunate Boyer. The report of the pistol was heard by persons in the village, but the only known witnesses of the tragedy were the parties thereto. A negro boy ran up town and reported that a man was killed at the landing. The boy was soon followed by Chase, who deliberately told what he had done, and surrendered, voluntarily, to Captain Bingham, of the state militia. The homicide was taken to Booneville and incarcerated, but never came to trial, as he was forcibly liberated by a company of German militia, stationed at Booneville.
KILLING OF INGRAM.
In 1862, Capt. Winter, in command of a scouting party of M. S. M., from Marshall, took and shot a Mr. Ingram, in the Petite Saw bottom, he having claimed that he shot Capt. Hawk, at the Meadow's Spring fight, a short time before.
KILLING OF BOGAMIRE.
In the summer of 1852, a Union man named Bogamire was killed by the Confederate guerrillas in the town of Miami. He had been around the place for several months. He was not a soldier, but did not seem to have any particular business. The guerrillas spotted him. They believed him to be a Federal spy. It was claimed that he was seen with a com- pany of Federals en route from Clinton to Lexington. Three days after- ward the guerrillas came upon him in the town of Miami. They chased him and killed him on the banks of the river to the left of High street. The citizens buried the body in the old cemetery.
KILLING OF PARK WOODS.
In 1863, at the house where Mr. J. H. C. Fulton now resides, the militia killed a man named Park Woods. Mr. Woods was attending to the busi- ness of Huge McDowell, who then owned the farm. He was a southern man in principle, but had taken no part in the war. The militia demanded admittance into the house, which Woods refused, and they shot him dead.
EXECUTION OF DR. J. W. BENSON.
In August, 1863, a court martial was held in Marshall on Dr. Benson, who had been captured by some of the soldiers. It was charged that he had been with Quantrell, at the burning of Lawrence. This was proved. He did not deny this, but stated that he was there as a surgeon only. However, the evidence was sufficient to convict him, and he was sentenced to be shot. He was taken to the graveyard north of town, and seated on
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his coffin and facing the file of soldiers he received his death. He died bravely and cheerfully. At his own request he was shot below the face, and died without a struggle.
Major Kelly, of the 4th Missouri state militia, in command at Marshall at the time, says Dr. Benson died bravely, but reluctantly. He had been captured while on his way to Marshall to surrender himself, having been induced to take this step by certain Union men, who had agreed to see to it that he was treated as a prisoner of war. The Federals almost univer- sally regretted his death. He was a young man of many excellent traits of character. The citizens, Union and Confederate, regarded his execution as a horrible affair. Three details had to be made before men could be found who would become his executioners. But the company he had been keeping justified his execution according to the laws of war, in the view of the Federal authorities. At that time Quantrell and his men spared no Federal who fell into their hands, and the law of retaliation was everywhere in force. O, the horrible enormities of that civil war!
KILLING OF REV. KAVANAUGH.
In 1863, the Rev. Mr. Cavanaugh, formerly from Alabama, and step- father of Rev. Joe Lewis, presiding elder of St. Louis, was killed on the farm where elder T. W. Hancock now resides, by some Federal soldiers who thought him an active southern man.
KILLING OF JAMES E. ELSON.
James E. Elson, of Miami township, was killed by the guerrillas in the fall of 1863. He was a Union soldier, had been captured by the guer- rillas, and was under guard in the Petite Saw bottom, near Marshall's mill. Having asked for a drink of water, two of the guards took him to the river, near by, and while he was kneeling down and drinking, one of the guards shot him and rolled him into the river. This statement is as it was given by Capt. A. Burnsides, who said he gave it as made to citizens by one of the guerrillas afterward.
EXECUTION OF ASA HUFF.
In 1863, Asa Huff, of Capt. Garrett's company, Shelby's regiment, was left behind his command while it was in this county, on the famous Shelby raid. He remained at and about home in Cambridge township until July, 1864, living a great portion of that time in the brush, in a sort of cave dug in the ground, in company with a man named Norvell, now a prominent school teacher at Slater. One day Huff was taken sick, and a doctor was called, but that worthy refused to prescribe for the invalid until he had informed the Federals of Huff's whereabouts. The militia went out and paroled him, and as soon as he had recovered from his sick- ness they took him to Marshall and shot him. His mother went with him 21
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to the town and begged the commander, Capt. Houks, to spare her son, and when he refused, asked to be allowed to see him shot! This was also refused. Mrs. Huff is one of the pioneer women of this county.
KILLING OF CHARLES FLANNEGAN.
On Sunday evening, August 21, 1864, Mr. Flannegan, living a few miles east of Marshall, a quiet old man, who had taken the oath of loy- alty, was arrested, brought to Marshall, and shot by the Federal soldiers, under the following circumstances: A squad of soldiers from Marshall dressed themselves in citizens clothes, and went to Mr. Flannegan's on Sat- urday night, August 20, 1864, and told him they were bushwhackers, and asked for food, horses, etc., and a place to hide. He told them he was poor, and had nothing to give them but a pair of woolen socks, which they took. He told them where they could hide. They then said to him: "You have taken an oath to report us to Marshall; are you going to do it?" He replied that he would not. They then left him, and returned to town. They said they waited until the middle of the next day for him to report them, and as he did not come, the same squad, or a part of the same, went out and arrested him, and brought him to Mar- shall Sunday evening, August 21, 1864. It is not known whether he was given any regular trial, but on Wednesday, August 24, he was taken by a squad of soldiers to the ravine north of town, where Jefferson street now crosses the ravine, and then shot to death. His body was taken charge of by his relatives, and buried.
SEVEN FEDERALS SHOT BY PRICE'S MEN.
In 1864, Col. Perrie and two other Confederates, employed ahead of Price's army on recruiting service, were shot and killed while asleep in the timber north of Carrollton, Carroll county, Missouri, by a squad of Federal soldiers and Union citizens. Soon afterward, during Price's last raid, Carrollton was suddenly surrounded by rebel soldiers, and four Fed- eral soldiers and three citizens who had been engaged in the killing of Perrie, were captured, brought over the river, and tried by court-martial at Grand Pass church, found guilty, drawn up in line in the ravine east of the Meadows' residence, and shot to death.
Two of the citizens captured were named Trotter and Stanley; the name of the other cannot now be remembered. One of the soldiers tried had on Col. Perrie's boots. Two ladies, Mrs. Mary Meadows and Mrs. A. M. Creel, heard the shooting, and went out to the place of execution. They found them all dead. Dr. G. W. Hereford and Mr. A. M. Creel, of the neighborhood, had them decently buried.
The Confederates making the capture were mainly from Carroll county, and belonged to Gen. John B. Clark's brigade. It is said that the
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shooting of the Federals was approved by the Confederate officers in command of Price's army, although this is denied by many.
KILLING OF HOWERTON.
William Howerton, a Union man, who had lived about ten years in the Petite Saw bottom, and was accused of being an informer against southern men-was killed in 1864, during Price's last raid, by Pete Frazier, Bill Duck, H. D. Evans, Sid Martin and Masterton, according to his own statement, for he lived eight or ten days after he was shot. It was claimed, too, that he was shot in retaliation for the death of Harris, whom Howerton had reported to the militia.
KILLING OF ALLEN MCREYNOLDS.
On the 24th of December, 1864, Mr. Allen McReynolds was killed between his house and Grand Pass church. He was a whig in politics- that is, as the term whig was then understood. He did not approve of either abolitionism or secession. On the day mentioned, Capt. R. M. Box, of company F, 7th regiment of state militia, as it was stated, sent two men to Mr. McReynold's house to get dinner, which they did. Soon after they went away, a squad of men belonging to the same regiment, 7th regiment, M. S. M., came to the house, and announcing themselves as bushwhackers, demanded of McReynolds information concerning the Federals. Mr. Creed, who was present, warned McReynolds that they were Federal militia; but he would not believe it, and gave them, it is supposed, all the information he could-and, probably, made statements that, in the eyes of the militiamen, justified them in shooting him. Upon their demand he went out with them to point the directions to certain places. He was last seen alive, pointing, as if giving the direction to Marshall. He was then carried a little further down the road, and there shot to death. Death must have come to him instantaneously, as he was shot three times in the head, and five or six times in other parts of the body. McReynolds was a southern man in his sympathies, and what he said to the militiamen is not known-but, believing them to be friends, it is probable he " gave himself away." He was a peaceable and quiet man -was universally respected by his neighbors, and his death created a great excitement all through the western portion of the county. He was buried in the grain-field of Mr. Baltimore Thomas.
Mr. McReynolds was born and raised in Tennessee, and came to Mis- souri about the year 1828, and settled at the old homestead, the place where his brother David McReynolds now lives, though the old house is gone. He was about fifty-seven years old when killed.
In 1862, Isaac Lovelace was shot and killed with a shot-gun, by some person unknown, at a party at Mr. Gilliam's place in the Upper bottom.
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. LIST OF SALINE COUNTY SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR,
During the progress of the civil war, the Federal administration decided upon the policy of ordering a universal draft. While the matter was under discussion, a telegram was sent to Gov. Bramlette, of Kentucky, advising him of the step that was about to be taken, and asking him how he thought it would affect his state. To this the governor replied: " Come on with your draft; it won't hurt us. Kentucky's quota is full, on both sides!" The same might have been said of Saline county at one time; her quota was full and running a little over on one side, and almost if not quite, full on the other.
The purpose of this record is to give the names of the soldiers who served in either army in regular organizations. No pretense is made, how- ever, that this list is full, complete, or even accurate. There being no official records obtainable, information has been procured as best it could, and often this has been very imperfectly done. It is believed, however, that not many men have escaped mention who wore either the blue or the gray. The best has been done to make the list full and perfect, but the undertaking is a large and laborious one.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' RECORD.
SALINE MOUNTED RIFLES, M. S. G
T. W. B. Crews, captain, Franklin, Mo .; J. C. Barclay, 1st lieutenant; F. S. Robertson, 2d lieutenant, St. Louis; O. T. Sims, 3d lieutenant; J. W. Benson, surgeon; M. A. Brown, M. D., surgeon.
T. T. Major, Ist sergeant; L. W. Haynie, 2d sergeant; W. H. Jackson, 3d sergeant; Minor Major, 4th sergeant; Thos. Turner, 5th sergeant.
Wm. Kiser, 1st corporal; W. B. Fackler, 2d corporal; John Millsaps, 3d corporal; Wm. Dick, 4th corporal.
Privates .- T. S. Akerman, C. L. Beatty, J. C. Blair, Peter Bush, Jacob Barre, Peter Beverly, M. Beason, M. B. Craig, M. S. Clemmens, W. B. Cain, J. Cunningham, Isaac Cruzen, George Crabtree, M. T. Compton, Samuel Chron, T. B. Evans, H. C. Evans, J. W. Evans, John Fanner, Robert Flenner, Alex. Gibbs, R. W. Haynie, H. H. Hopkins, G. A. Hill, J. C. Handley, Alex. Hood, R. T. Irvine, J. B. Jones, R. W. Kirtley, Cyrus Kirtley, T. H. Lewis, W. B. S. Lewis, W. H. Little, Chas. Lutz, John D. Mckown, D. W. Martin, H. H. McDowell, R. T. McCallister, James Moberly, J. T. Moore, A. T. Minor, G. W. Nichols, George O. Neil, J. Owens, T. W. Ross, J. H. Rockwell, D. Strother, C. W. Sur- baugh, J. M. Stansifer, J. H. Thomas, Thomas Turner, C. L. Snelling, Joseph Waters, Thomas Wheeler, J. W. Warner, Isaac Welsh, Wm. Wallan, Reuben Wood, A. R. Chamberlain, J. W. McNutt, H. Parmalee, Samuel Holland, T. F. Huston.
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This company, under Capt. Crews, was out in the M. S. G. six months, when their term of service expired. It was present at and took part in the battles of Booneville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Drywood and Lex- ington. Lost no men in killed, wounded or prisoners. The company was mustered out, November, 1861, near Warsaw, Mo., and most of the men re-enlisted in the C. S. A.
SALINE JACKSON GUARDS, M. S. G., MAY, 1861.
Lucius J. Gaines, captain, killed December 4, 1863; James H. Eakin, 1st lieutenant; J. P. Craddock, 2d lieutenant; T. D. Wait, 3d lieutenant. J. Kirby, 1st sergeant; C. S. Mitchell, 2d sergeant; C. O. Bell, 3d ser- geant; W. W. Filey, 4th sergeant; J. W. Allen, 5th sergeant.
W. O. Burgess, Ist corporal; J. S. Miller, 2d corporal; S. M. Cambern, 3d corporal; J. Goff, 4th corporal; J. T. Smith, 5th corporal.
PRIVATES.
J. H. Abney, R. C. Ainsworth, Joseph Allen, H. Almy, J. Amlin, H. T. Barnes, J. Brisbo, W. B. Brown, W. M. Chamberlin, J. E. Clayton, G. W. Colhoff, M. S. Clemens, W. C. Condon, J. H. Cooper, D. A. Covington, G. W. Cross, J. H. Cunningham, R. H. Davidson, J. V. L. Davis, W. W. Davis, H. Davis, W. C. Dawes, A. B. Dulaney, J. M. Evans, J. W. Evans. W. B. Fackler, W. H. Ferrell, T. W. Forkner, E. F. Gaar, W. Gregory, J. D. Hall, G. S. Harvey, E. D. Haynie, E. M. Haynie, J. A. Hickerson, C. Hogshett, S. H. Hopper, C. A. Houts, W. M. Hubbell, J. M. Jackson, A. Jones, J. B. Jones, P. J. Jones, R. T. Jones, J. M. Kelly, M. Kenedy, J. W. Kief, M. D. Lacey, G. W. Manning, D. W. Marma- duke, W. A. Martin, W. H. McCormick, S. F. McMelon, J. B. McNitt, J. W. McNutt, G. J. Miller, J. K. Miller, T. W. Miller, A. T. Minor, F. Mistler, E. B. Mitchell, J. H. Neeley, T. N. Odell, J. M. O'Donald, J. O'Donald, J. N. O'Neill, R. W. Orear, J. W. Parsons, L. C. Patrick, J. H. Paul, W. J. Plott, D. Pulliam, W. Putch, P. Quinn, D. J. Ried, J. H. Rutherford, S. Scott, A. Smith, E. W. Smith, R. Smith, W. S. Smith, J. W. Stacey, J. H. Strader, A. T. Swisher, C. H. Thomas, J. Thomas, G. W. Tinder, E. Wiley, A. Wilson, A. G. Wilson, T. R. Wilson, B. Wright.
After the first battle of Booneville portions of two Saline county comp- anies, the Saline Jackson Guards, under Capt. Lucius J. Gaines, and the other under Capt. Wm. B. Brown, retreated south with Gov. Jac 2 on. At Camp Brisco, in St. Clair county, Missouri, they were reorganized into one company, into 1st Cavalry Missouri State Guards, of which Capt. W. B. Brown was elected colonel, and C. M. Sutherlin was elected cap- tain of the reorganized company. G. W. Lankford 1st, and Isaac Neff 2d lieutenant. This company was afterwards engaged in the battles of Carthage, Wilson's creek, Ft. Scott, and Lexington. After the capture of Lexington they retreated south with Gen. Price to Pineville, Arkansas. On the 10th of December, 1861, the time of the company having expired, they having only volunteered for six months, most of them returned home.
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COMPANY G, SECOND MISSOURI CAVALRY, C. S. A.
Robert Mccullough colonel, and Robt. Mccullough lieutenant colonel.
In February, 1862, about thirty to thirty-five men from Saline county, left their homes with Col. Stump Price and Col. Congreve Jackson, for Price's army, then at Springfield, Mo. Before they reached Springfield, however, Gen. Price had retreated south. They followed to Van Buren, Arkansas, or near there, and were there mustered into Company G, 2d Mis- souri Cavalry, C. S. A., for the war. Of this company, Capt. George B. Harper, of Booneville, was captain. The names of the Saline county men were-C. M. Sutherlin, 1st lieutenant; L. J. Gaines, afterwards brigade adjutant, killed at the fight at Moscow, Tenn., December 4, 1863. Wm. Putch, J. B. Breathitt, Austin Jones, John Eelbeck, died in 1862, in Mis- sissippi. Henry Romines, died at Memphis in 1862. Godfrey Dumbolt, Bryant Nowlin, Isaiah Garrett, G. W. Gilmore, promoted to 3d lieutenant and wounded at Ft. Pillow. Thos. Sellers, F. R. Durrett, brigade surgeon; P. F. Lamear, wounded at Memphis; Henry Gilliam, wounded; C. B. Hill, Wm. Hill, Wm. Norvell, killed in action at Senatobia, Missouri; Jas. Gauldin, Sam'l Copeland, W. R. Garrett, Thos. Napton, Jas. Hopper, J. W. Liggett, A. W. Scripture, G. W. Marcus, W. R. Samuels, Geo. Staples.
This company, G, participated in the following engagements :
Elk Horn, Arkansas, March 6 and 7, 1862.
Purdy Road, near Corinth, Mississippi, May 5 to 14, 1862.
Baldwin, Mississippi, June 6, 1862.
Capture of Courtland, Alabama, July 25, 1862.
Middleburg, Tennessee, August 3, 1862.
Meaden, Tennessee, September 1, 1862.
Britton Lane, Tennessee, September 2, 1862.
Iuka, Mississippi, September 13, 1862.
Iuka, Mississippi, September 19, 1862.
Corinth, Mississippi, October 3, 4 and 5, 1862.
Battle of Holly Springs and LaGrange, Mississippi, November 1 to 3, 1862.
Battle of Holly Springs and Abbeyville, Mississippi, November 27 to 30, 1862.
Abbeyville to Grenada, Mississippi, December 1 to 3, 1862.
Capture of Holly Springs, Mississippi, December 20, 1862.
Around Bolivar, Tennessee, December 23, 1862.
Perre Terre, Mississippi, April 19, 1863.
Walhalla, Mississippi, April 19, 1863.
Cochrane, Mississippi, April 19, 1863. Senatobia, Mississippi, May 21, 1863.
Byhalia, Mississippi, June 16, 1863.
Salem, Mississippi, September 9, 1863.
Collierville, Mississippi, September 11, 1863.
Wyatt, Mississippi, September 13, 1863. .
Collierville, Mississippi, October 3, 1863.
Moscow, Tennessee, December 4, 1863.
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Fort Pillow, Tennessee, April 12, 1864.
Senatobia, Mississippi, February 9, 1864.
Wyatt, Mississippi, February 13, 1864.
West Point to Pontotoc, Mississippi, February 21 and 22, 1864.
Pontotoc, Mississippi, July 10 to 12, 1864.
Harrisburg, Mississippi, July 13 to 15, 1864.
Abbeyville, Mississippi, August 14, 1864.
Raid to Memphis, August 21, 1864.
Robertson's Ferry, Mississippi, December 10, 1864.
Davidson's Creek, Mississippi, December 18, 1864.
Pascagoula, Mississippi, December 29, 1864.
Iuka, Mississippi, March 22, 1865.
This fight at Iuka, Mississippi, March 22, 1865, was the last shot fired by the command. They surrendered and got their paroles June 15, 1865, at Columbus, Mississippi, and returned to their homes, and have since made as good citizens as they were soldiers. During the war they cap- tured nearly all their ammunition and supplies from the enemy.
CAPT ROBT. RUXTON'S COMPANY, C. S. A.
Robinson's Regiment-Organized December 15th, 1861-Captured at Blackwater, December 19th, 1861.
Captain, Robert Ruxton. See biography.
1st lieutenant, J. H. Montgomery, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 22, 1862.
2d lieutenant, R. T. Hutcherson, exchanged at Vicksburg, September, 22, 1862.
3d lieutenant, J. H. McDaniel, see biography.
1st sergeant, R. H. Willis, see biography.
2d sergeant, T. J. Goddard, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 22, 1862.
3d sergeant, R. H. Hudson, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 23, 1862.
4th sergeant, H. J. Brown, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
5th sergeant, D. C. Byrd, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 22, 1862. 1st corporal, J. B. Brown, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
2d corporal, L. O. Patrick, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
3d corporal, G. W. Guthrey, released on oath, March 14, 1862. 4th corporal, J. A. Elder, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Jno. A. Brown, died in prison at St. Louis, January 1, 1862.
C. E. Ballance, died in prison in St. Louis, January 1, 1862. Jno. Byrd, died in prison in St. Louis, January 1, 1862.
S. T. Chapman, left sick in St. Louis, fate unknown.
T. J. Shannysy, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 22, 1862. S. J. Carter, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
T. S. Edwards, exchanged at Vicksburg, September 22, 1862.
A. C. Garnett, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
T. T. Garnett, released on oath, February 25, 1862.
Wm. J. Garnett, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
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Jno. P. Harl, released on oath, July 11, 1862. L. F. Hudson, released on oath, March 14, 1862. H. C. Hudson, released on oath, March 14, 1862. Wm. M. Hutcherson, released on oath, March 14, 1862 .. J. G. Harvey, released on oath, March 14, 1862. Hubert Harvey, released on oath, March 14, 1862. T. L. Harvey, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
L. P. Hickerson, released on oath, March 19, 1862. J. S. Hughes, released on oath, February 25th, 1862.
H. W. Jackson, exchanged at Vicksburg, September, 1862.
F. F. Jones, left sick in St. Louis and supposed to have been released on oath.
W. T. Jones, left sick in St. Louis and supposed to have been released on oath.
J. H. Irvine, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
H. B. Irvine, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
H. O. Lewis, released on oath, March 14, 1862. G. R. McDaniel, see biography.
T. A. H. Moore, released on oath, Feb. 18, 1862. A. J. Martin, escaped from prison, March 14, 1862. W. D. P. M. Noland, released on oath, March 14, 1862.
J. J. Page, released on oath, March 14, 1862. R. P. Patrick, released on oath, March 15, 1862. J. D. Patrick, Sr., released on oath, March 15, 1862. J. D. Patrick, Jr., released on oath, March 15, 1862. E. W. Smith, released on oath, March 14, 1862. J. A. Smith, released on oath, March 14, 1862. L. A. Smith, escaped December 16, 1861.
G. M. Snelling, released on oath, March 14, 1862. A. T. Sims, released on oath, March 14, 1862. Thos. Stewart, died in prison, January 16, 1862. Joseph Trent, released on oath, March 14, 1862. .Dr. E. M. Talbott, released as surgeon.
S. A. Thompson, died in prison on January 30, 1862. Wm. H. Willis, released on oath, March 15, 1862. P. F. Willis, released on oath, February 25, 1862. -Joseph Leddy, company drillmaster, escaped July 26, 1862, C. E. Woodward, escaped July 26, 1862, recaptured and shot August 2, 1862.
J. A. Wiley, released on oath, February 27, 1862.
L. H. Tucker, released on oath. March 14, 1861. John Ingram, escaped December 19, 1861.
This company was organized in Miami by Captain Ruxton, Decem- ber 15, 1861, and with other recruits, nearly all from Saline county, under the command of Col. F. S. Robertson, were on their way to join Gen. Parsons' brigade, in Price's army, when the whole was captured by Gen. Jeff. C. Davis' command on Blackwater, December 19, 1861, and taken to McDowell's College, Gratiot street, St. Louis, and from there removed to Alton penitentiary; and from there released on oath or exchanged in 1862.
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SALINE GUARDS, M. S. G.
Capt. Ed. Brown's Company, organized May, 1861-Cavalry.
Ed. J. Brown, captain; J. H. Irving, 1st lieutenant; R. T. Hutchin- son, 2d lieutenant; John H. McDaniel, 3d lieutenant; J. H. Montgomery, 1st orderly sergeant; Hubert Harvey, 2d sergeant; T. T. Goddard, 3d sergeant; L. H. Tucker, 4th sergeant; H. T. Brown, 1st corporal; G. C. Miller, 2d corporal; R. L. Brown, 3d corporal; John B. Harl, 4th cor- poral.
Privates .- Wm. Bishop, P. W. Harris, J. H. Miller, R. H. Willis, T. L. Harvey, L. C. Patrick, D. C. Bird, Wm. Grayson, Sidney Donahue, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Trent, Wilson Trent, Wm. Reynolds, Robert Thos. Brown, Thos. Duggins, Patrick Guthrey, Thos. Boatright.
COMPANY D, FIRST MISSOURI CAVALRY .- COL. JOSEPH O. SHELBY .- C. S. A.
Organized August, 1862, at Grand Pass, Saline county, Missouri-Soon after transferred to Marmaduke, and afterwards known as "Marmaduke's Escort." The following were from Saline county:
John B. Clark-1st lieutenant, afterwards captain, killed Helena, Ark .; Geo. Kirtley, captain, afterwards major, killed at Hartsville; Dick Stal- lard, 2nd lieutenant, afterwards captain.
Cyrus Kirtley, 3rd sergeant; Sinclair Lewis, 3rd sergeant, afterwards 1st; Geo. Nuckles, 3rd sergeant.
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