Kirby This incident about Jack Cato has puzzled me for quite a while since I did not know of anyone named Jack in the Missouri Cato's in that era. This is the conclusion I have come up with. In Sam Hildebrand's book "Sam Hildebrand rides again" Sam makes mention that on one of his excursions back to Mo he hooks up with Wash. Nabors and James Cato and on page 37 he mentions that they stayed up all night and kept charging the Federal camp and found out later that they had killed over 30 Federals that night. Jack is a nickname for James and since Jack had bragged of killing so many Union men, this could be the same man, especially since he rode with Hildebrand. My Father had a brother named James Henry that was always called "Jack" On William Cato, Joanne Eakin Chiles in her book, Missouri Prisones of War, transcribes a bunch by the name of Cata which is in fact the Cato bunch from Bollinger and Stoddard counties. In the Census of Mo there are no Cata's in this area. William is listed as a bushwacker, Gratiot prison, confined to ball and chain for violation of Oath. I have been told that the end result for this was normaly punishable by death. (not critizing Joanne for if you don't study the family as I have it is an easy mistake to make) Adruain