Jackie, here is one site: http://www.geocities.com/swmolos/Confederate_MIssouri_History.html <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/swmolos/Confederate_Missouri_History.html"> Confederate_Missouri_History</A> Read it all the way through...check this out: " Thousands of Missourians enlisted in the Confederate army. Official records of Confederate pensioners show only about 40,000, but heritage groups have uncovered records of more than 100,000 Missourians in Confederate service. An imposing force of Partisan Rangers and other groups were never counted, but it took over 50,000 Yankee troops to enforce a toehold in Missouri." I had some other sites..and am looking for them..this one is easier to read if you cut and paste it so you don't have to keep moving from side to side. I had always wondered why a slave state went Union when the decisons were called upon and not until I read this did I understand why. Most of those people in Missouri surely did not have slaves. I don't think slavery was the question for many of the people who fought the Union. As Americans everywhere..shoot, as people everywhere..but maybe Americans more than others..they did not like being told what to do. Besides the ancestor who was almost hung for "hiding" a Confederate soldier (his son who has snuck home to see his family on leave)...... another family ..the one I spoke of where murder occurred...a Missouri (Union) troop came to their place and took what food there was..the crops weren't in..so they just cut up feather beds and pillows and dumped them in the molasses barrels...then they came back when the crops were in..they took the father..an old man..out and hung him..perhaps he had tried to stop them, I don't know...then they took all the food. The story goes one of the boys took off to neighboring kin...who cut the troop off on some bluffs..got the food back..and uh, got revenge for the murder. But of course usually these stories don't end that way...the people were helpless..many with their men off at war. Terrible time, that war. The stories out of it make me cringe. I imagine all Civil Wars are the same. Marti