Bruce, What a wonderful piece of genealogical detection. You make it fun just to observe the delight of others! Thanks, Gae GOODRICH Seal MO-CW-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: MO-CW-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 90 Today's Topics: #1 Re: Green Hancock in Southern Serv [Mapmaker3@aol.com] #2 To Mapmaker re: Green Hancock [j wood ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from MO-CW-D, send a message to MO-CW-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:19:39 EDT From: Mapmaker3@aol.com To: MO-CW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Green Hancock in Southern Service J. Unfortunately, I cannot shed light on the identity of your ascendants, but perhaps I found a clue in your ancestor's military service record to where he spent his youth. Namely, Platte County. Let me elaborate. I looked up Green Hancock' military service record in the online Missouri Secretary of State's Office website (just plug that in with quotation marks around it in Google.com). The Missouri State Archives at the Secretary of State's building in Jefferson City seems to have several cards for Green, so the following is a combination of those. Private Green (nickname "Spruce") Hancock served in Captain W. H. Frazer's Company B of the 10th Cavalry Regiment (CSA). He enlisted 5 Aug 1862 in Vernon County (see paragraph below). Evidently Green served the rest of the war in this company and regiment because he surrendered at New Orleans 26 May 1865 and was paroled at Shreveport, LA on 7 June 1865. His residence is listed as Platte County, Missouri at the time of his surrender and parole (which leads me to suspect he was raised in Platte County, or that he was fearful his Bates County family would suffer if he stated his residence was in Bates County). You mentioned the family story that at the Battle of Pilot Knob Green pulled the wounded Billy Kemper off the field. I found two cards for a Private W. T. Kemper or William Kemper also of Company B (and Company A) of the 10th Missouri Cavalry Regiment of Major General John Sappington Marmaduke's Dviision. Kemper's home was Papinsville, of the southeast corner of Bates County, located very close to Pleasant Gap. If Green Hancock did assist a wounded Billy Kemper it must have worked, since Kemper survived to attend the 9th Reunion of Ex-Confederates in Kansas City in 1891 and also the 6th Annual Reunion of the U.C.V., Marmaduke Camp No. 615 at Butler, Bates County on 2 Aug 1902. The date and place of Green's enlistment tells me he enlisted during the lightning fast large-scale recruiting drive that several Confederate colonels orchestrated across southwest and west-central Missouri in August 1862 under pressure from pursuing Union cavalry. Note that this was hundreds of miles behind Union military lines. Under these circumstances, it is possible that the closest of these recruiting parties to where Green was living in August 1862 was in neighboring Vernon County. That is the extent of my ability to advise you about Green Hancock's military experience based on what I found. I cannot speak further about Green's Company B of the 10th Missouri Cavalry, because my specialty is guerrilla warfare in Missouri and someone more conversant about regular southern forces will have to tell you more about what the 10th accomplished. I hope that helps. Bruce Nichols ______________________________Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:09:05 -0700 (PDT) From: j wood <woojaq@yahoo.com> To: MO-CW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: To Mapmaker re: Green Hancock Mapmaker, Thank you for all this information. It certainly gives me a lot of material to work with. I have read a great deal about the MO and KS-MO battles, from books to small blurbs, and accounts of many 'incidents' along the MO-KS border, and Quantrell's raid on Lawrence. Even Bios on William Anderson, Jesse Woodson James, and Quantrell. (My grandfather Wood was an apprentice to Frank James, who was working as an Ostler/hostler at one time). Now I can see that I need to branch out to other states, and try to find the movements of Co B, 10th Cavalry (CSA), as well as look into Green's officers, and even "Billy Kemper", now that you have informed me that he was real, and survived his ordeal. I am particularly interested about Green's surrender at New Orleans and being paroled at Shreveport. There must be a story there as well. Your message has reinforced the idea that he may have led a misleading life after the war, fearing retaliation of some sort. His various aka's that I have been able to find were Green, Theodore, Green T., Theodore G, etc. Again, thank you for all these leads, every paragraph has something I want to check out! J Wood - ------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page