Here is Doc Baxter's description (years later) of Rutch Smith's wounds suffered on October 21, 1864, at the battle of the Little Blue River during Price's Raid into Missouri: EVIDENCE OF PHYSICIAN STATE OF ARKANSAS, County of Izard I, E A Baxter a duly registered and practicing physician in Melbourne Izard County, Arkansas, do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with S R Smith of Lunenburg Ark (Izard Co) Arkansas, who is an applicant for a pension under the Statutes of Arkansas. That at his request I have made an examination of his physicial condition and find: State description and character of wound The left leg is off 5 inches below the Knee, and he was shot through the left hip glancing the head of femur was shot through right Knee ball exiting at under side of patella coming out in popliteal space. Physical condition and to what cause is his incapacity for manual labor attributable Due mainly to the above mentioned wounds, and to debility natural to his age. and that said disability is not result of his own vicious habits still presisted in Not due to vicious habits. Extene of disability Totally disabled It is amazing that Rutch survived.