I just wanted to tell everyone that I enjoy reading all the info you post on this list. I have posted just a few times in the past and had some conversations with some of the listers regarding my "wild" bunch from MO. Mostly, tho I just enjoy reading because I don't have a lot to add other than my personal history which is of course, only important to me.. I grew up on stories of my g g uncles and g grandpa who served in the Confederacy (and other units as well if the stories are believed). My dad would always say, "did you know your g grandpa was a go-rilla?" Didn't take long before I realized he was speaking of guerillas of another elk. When I was a child they were my heroes, and now that I am old lady, guess they are my heroes still even tho not all were heroic. I always heard how my g grandma would tell of her handsome, blue eyed old man who would step out on the porch of a clear night and give the rebel yell - a combination of a Cherokee war cry, a Celtic shot and! all the lost lonesomeness of the southland. She used to "fear what the neighbors mought think - ahearin that ole man out thar ahowlin at the moon!". (My people weren't wealthy or educated - just common folk.) Anyway, thank you all for adding to my knowledge of Missouri during the Civil War - aside from our family stories.