CRAYNOR's REGIMENT STATE MILITIA INFANTRY Does any one know anything about this Regiment and their activities in 1861 ? Also, were there any military prisons in MO during the Civil War. I have an ancestor that was with this regiment and died Dec. 31, 1861. Family lore has it that he died at Andersonville prison but this prison wasn't even built until 1863. So am wondering if it could have been another prison. Thank You for any help anyone can provide..........Dorothy

Dorothy, There were Federal military prisons in Missouri, but I don't think there were any Confederate. http://home.usmo.com/~momollus/MOREG/Inf.htm CRAYNOR'S REGIMENT STATE MILITIA INFANTRY. Organized in Gentry Country for six months October 1, 1861. Engaged in scout duty in Northwest Missouri till February, 1862. Mustered out February, 1862. Source of Data: "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1340 http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/cvware.htm Craynor’s Missouri Infantry Regiment (Union- 6 month regiment) Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri for the Year 1863. St. Louis, MO, 1864, pp. 149-151. Usually includes a list of officers of the regiment by company, plus an "Historical Memorandum" which recounts the activities of the regiment for the past year by company. Occasionally includes other, miscellaneous information. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, compiled and arranged from official records of the Federal and Confederate armies, etc. Des Moines, Ia.: Dyer Publishing Co., 1908, 3 vols., pp. 1340. Volume 3 has brief histories of Northern regiments which vary in length from one paragraph to one page. Histories include information on regiment’s organization andcommands it was attached to, with a chronology of its wartime activities Dorothy Mead <dotndash@netins.net> wrote: CRAYNOR's REGIMENT STATE MILITIA INFANTRY Does any one know anything about this Regiment and their activities in 1861 ? Also, were there any military prisons in MO during the Civil War. I have an ancestor that was with this regiment and died Dec. 31, 1861. Family lore has it that he died at Andersonville prison but this prison wasn't even built until 1863. So am wondering if it could have been another prison. Thank You for any help anyone can provide..........Dorothy Arleigh Birchler, MDiv, BSN 1718 Fisher St #2 Madison WI 53713 608-251-4437 (Ali Sengaree - Allah'ka cli here chaya) Brams Addition Life&Choice Musick/Porter Fan Club Pleasure, Pain, Power, and Love