Guild Press has a CD ROM with the history of the border wars including the Quantrill Raiders and Jessie James. It is supposed to be historically correct and the most accurate account of all known names. There was also a book written in the 1877 called Civil War Book "Noted Guerrillas" 1877. It was reproduced in 1966 and can be found at used book stores. John Newman Edwards also wrote a book about the same subject in 1867 called Shelby and His Men . I have been told that his books are the most accurate. Someone I know does have this information and this is what he said "Also I have found reference to John (and several other Maupins) all in the western theater in the GP CD ROM." The ones who want to know should look for this CD or possibly the book. I think it may be your best bet. You might want to try a search engine. This is also information he gave to me: "Also I recall seeing John Maupin listed in Quantrill's roster - I assume this is why you were interested in 'noted guerillas'. The Official Records Civil War CD-ROM More comments from my source: "Guild Press is 1 of 3 vendors who advertise - CDROMs of the Official Records for Armies (and Navies also). Reading off a tube is not as nice as an old book but you cannot beat the search capability for research. They list for $70 U.S. - I found a vendor by just searching thru Yahoo who sold it for $55. I may recall the name Maupin but it may have been only listed in 1 or 2 Quantrill/Anderson roster lists I have gathered which were published in certain books (and web sites). I'll have a quick look for any hits on the name. I have had good luck with Amazon finding reprints of a couple of old books - they search various used book stores. Here is a web site devoted to a researcher. There are many Civil War buffs out there and you can probably find many more. How accurate they are, who knows. This site has John Maupin down as John Maughn and claims he was from St. Louis. I don't think that is accurate. <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com:0080/~sterlingprice/guerilla.htm"> http://www.geocities.com:0080/~sterlingprice/guerilla.htm</A> Another site with a list of the men: <A HREF="http://www.everton.com/usa/GENEALOG/GENEALOG.QUANTRIL"> http://www.everton.com/usa/GENEALOG/GENEALOG.QUANTRIL</A> this site lists two Maupins: Maupin, John + Quantrill Maupin, Thomas + Quantrill Killed 1865 Breihan says that he became a Texas cattleman after the war. This is another site with a list of Anderson's men: <A HREF="http://www.mcmsys.com/~nblock/">http://www.mcmsys.com/~nblock/</A> Another site under the Quantrill Flag <A HREF="http://www.rulen.com/partisan/">http://www.rulen.com/partisan/</A> this site lists: Maupin, John Quantrill Was at Lawrence August 21, 1863. Later went to Texas with George Shephard but soon returned. Attended reunions. Under the Museum Archive the have the reunion photos posted. Here are a few sites that either lists or has just about every book ever written on the border wars:<A HREF="http://www.blueandgrey.com/html/b_g_books.html"> http://www.blueandgrey.com/html/b_g_books.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.usmo.com/~momollus/books/Cwmo.htm"> http://www.usmo.com/~momollus/books/Cwmo.htm</A> John is the one you usually see in the historical records, but my friend tells me there are several listed on the CD. My father's mother was a Maupin from Putnam County and she told my dad that Quantrill's men had stopped by their farm to get fresh horses for a trip to St. Louis. She was a very small child. She knew that her dad knew some of them and thought he had a relative in that group that came by for horses. Edwards' book is probably the most quoted and excerpt from it are all over the Internet. This site, which is a government site, references Edwards list of names as accurate. <A HREF="http://homepages.go.com/~snowrose1/farms/Misc.html"> http://homepages.go.com/~snowrose1/farms/Misc.html</A> There are many who see Edwards book as accurate and others who do not. This is from a critic of the book. Guerrilla Mythmaker Exraordinaire As the years passed by and Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War lost their immediate hold on people's hearts and minds, a professional journalist and former Confederate cavalryman named John N. Edwards waged a one-man war to refurbish the image of the Missouri guerrillas. How well he succeeded can be seen in his extraordinary influence on subsequent historians of the war in the West. Edwards, who had served under Brig. Gen. Jo Shelby during the war, set about in the mid-1870s to change the public's perception of wartimes Bushwhackers from wanton killers to noble--if improbable--knights of a gallant brotherhood. In his book Noted Guerrillas, Edwards concentrated on the much-maligned historical figure of William Clarke Quantrill, portraying his as a "bashful and timid" youth who "knew nothing of the tiger that was in him until death had been dashed against his eyes in numberless and brutal ways, and until the blood of his own kith and kin had been sprinkled plentifully upon things that his hands touched." Disregarding Quantrill's rather unsavory prewar life, Edwards excused the guerrilla leader's undoubted excesses as mere self-defense and acts of honor. "He lifted the black flag in self-defense," wrote Edwards, "and fought as became a free man and a hero." Other guerrillas also found themselves recast in the heroic mold. Fletch Taylor, a Clay County Bushwhacker, was depicted as "a low massive Hercules...built like a quarterhorse, knowing nature well, seeing equally in darkness and light, rapacious for exercise, having an anatomy like a steam engine, impervious to fatigue like a Cossack, and to hunger like an Apache, he always hunted a fight and always fought for a funeral." Quantrill, in Edwards' recounting, was "a living, breathing, aggressive, all-powerful reality...viligant, merciless, a terror by day and a superhuman if not a supernatural thing when there was upon the earth blackness and darkness." But even Edwards could not totally refurbish Quantrill's image. With a notable lack of apology, the writer noted that Quantrill and his men, when faced with captured Union soldiers who "begged for mercy upon their knees, heeded the prayer as a wolf might the bleating of a lamb." Despite such lapses, however, Edwards' book proved influential, making Quantrill the focal point of nearly all subsequent historical accounts of the Kansas-Missouri fighting, at the expense of other, often times more successful guerrillas like "Bloody Bill" Anderson and George Todd. And the whitewashed image of Missouri Bushwhackers as Southern cavaliers, whatever the true historical facts, had proved irresistible to a certain segment of writers and apologists in the 115 years since Edwards' book. Cowan Brew However you choose to view it, that facts as far as names and events go are probably the most accurate. The history buffs I know tell me that the Edwards book may be the most accurate for statistics. It can be purchased at: OAK HILLS PUBLISHING P. O. Box 8012 Springfield, MO 65801 ohp@pcis.net You can also search the Internet, ABE books, Amazon finds books that are out of print for people. I'm not sure about the CD mentioned by my friend. Hope this helps some of you who are interested. Phyllis Abbott