Lorie, Now we are getting somewhere, although you need to name your ancestor from Salem who served in the 3rd and 11th Missouri Cavalry. By the way, Salem is the county seat of Dent County in the northern Ozarks and that country saw considerably more Civil War action than did Unionville in Putnam County. Also, I am wondering if your ancestor in the 3rd and 11th MO Cav was a Confederate, since their units have such low regimental numbers. Maybe not. Just wondering. If you give us his name, we may know. The best place to start with knowing what the 42nd MO Infantry Regiment did during the war is to see the short history of that regiment in Frederick Dyer's landmark "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion," which is in all libraries. Perhaps some kind soul reading this will be helpful to print that for you in this fine forum. Offhand, I have forgotten the URL to find the online version of Dyer. I found most of my answers using the site Lois Krone was kind enough to give us as _http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers _ (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers see) which is the online site for the Missouri Secretary of State's Missouri State Archives. I see that a number of GUFFEYs of Putnam County (Bird, Ephraim, your ancestor Jacob B., James C., Joseph, Joshua, McDonald, and William B.) generally did the same thing in the Civil War. This is also true with a few TRENTs (Alexander, James, and your ancestor Robert B.). Nearly all these Guffeys and Trents joined the 45th EMM (commonly called the "Putnam County Militia") when it formed under General Order Number 19 in August 1862. Robert Trent served 52 days on active duty at Unionville from 6 August until 7 November and Jacob Trent enrolled 4 August and served 24 days from 1 September to 7 November all in 1862, also in Unionville. Their duties were roughly as I wrote earlier, I would imagine (all EMM not under hostile conditions did the same guard duty, administrative stuff, occasional patrols, and the like). When the 11 Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia regiments were formed from the best of the 80 or so EMM regiments in spring 1863, Jacob Guffey (and a few of the other Guffeys and Trents--but not Robert Trent) was detailed into the 2nd Provisional EMM Regiment for service between 30 March and 20 November 1863 in Company G. You will want to see the history of this regiment in Dyer's, too. The 2nd PEMM performed all its service in 1863 in northeast Missouri, but I am not sure where Company G was stationed. There was not much action in northeast MO during 1863 except in the counties along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers where guerrillas and behind-Union-lines Confederate recruiters were active. The companies of the 2nd PEMM were stationed in towns all over northeast MO and performed all duties since the region was relatively quiet in 1863 so that the Union command pulled out just about all other troops there. I don't really know what Jacob encountered in his eight months of active duty in the way of action, because the EMM and PEMM units did not keep many records. I just know Putnam County was really quiet in 1863. When the PEMM program was disbanded in October 1863 due to political infighting among the northern politicians at Jefferson City, Jacob and all the other PEMM troops reverted back to their inactive EMM identities, on inactive status to be brought back to active duty when an emergency arose in their area. The following year both Jacob Guffey and Robert Trent (and many of the other Guffeys and Trents) enlisted 12 August 1864 at Hartford, east-central Putnam County, in Captain Maize's Company D of the newly-formed 42nd Missouri Infantry. Jacob was mustered in 16 August in Macon City, Macon County, at the Union district base and Robert was mustered in there also on 30 September. They both served (as did other Guffeys and Trents) for the rest of the war in the 42nd MO Infantry and Robert was mustered out 28 June 1865. Jacob died 13 May 1865 at Tullahoma, Tennessee. The record does not tell where he is buried, but his remains would eventually end up in a national cemetery in the Tennessee area or his family would have brought them back home for burial. I hope this helps. Please give us the name of your Salem, Dent County, ancestor, and we will see what we can find on him. Bruce