I thought you might enjoy this article in this morning's Dallas Morning News. You can find the complete article at <A HREF="http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/columnists/kbiffle/stories/110302dntexbiffle.2475.html"> http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/columnists/kbiffle/stories/110302dntex biffle.2475.html</A> This is from the very end where it talks about J. P Waldrip. Who was who? About 90,000 saw military service in the Civil War, reckoned historian Ralph A. Wooster, whose realistic estimate included many under 18 and over 45. Dr. Wooster co-authored The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Returning to the Hill Country's miseries, historian Johnson said, "At times the Germans were hard- pressed to separate the bandits from the Confederates. "After the Nueces affair, Hill Country settlers were terrorized by a man named J.P. Waldrip, who was either a Confederate enforcer or simply an outlaw. With his two sons, he led a group of 60 irregulars. He is alleged to have killed twice as many German settlers as the Indians killed during all their depredations in the hills." After the war, grand jurors in the Gillespie County seat of Fredericksburg wanted to bring some of those they considered war criminals to trial. They indicted 23 accused members of Rebel partisan lynch mobs. Renegade Waldrip was one. But no one was ever brought to trial. Even so, Jim Waldrip got his. He made a catastrophic miscalculation in 1867 when he assumed that passions had cooled sufficiently to permit him a postwar visit to beautiful Fredericksburg, one of his favorite wartime stomping grounds. Historian J. Robert Baulch of Schreiner College in Kerrville told me about what swiftly ensued when a Teuton spotted him. "Fredericksburgers quickly gathered and drove him into the barn behind the Nimitz Hotel where he was shot and killed." His last words were a fitting epitaph to the war in the Hill Country. He moaned, "Oh, God, please don't shoot any more." Kent Biffle is a regular contributor to the Texas & Southwest section. Visit my web site. http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/u/r/Buford-J-Murray/index.html <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/u/r/Buford-J-Murray/index.html">My web page</A> Marca Lee McInnes Murray