Saline County, Missouri - The whole text, 1881 (part 10 of 28)

John W. Parsons, ordnance master in Bledsoe's battery; enlisted M. S. G., 1861. Transferred to Joe E.- Johnson's army, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, 186S. Released on parole. In all the battles in Missouri in 1861, and.in all under Gen. Johnson to Vicksburg. Now lives in California.

George W. Lewis, private ; enlisted in 1864, Marmaduke's escort, Capt. Stallard. Surrendered at Shreveport, June, 1865. In all the long fighting of Price's last raid. Died at home a few months after the surrender.

D. W. Lewis, private; enlisted June, 1861, in Gordon's regiment, under Shelby, and detailed, 1862, into Stallard's company, Marmaduke's escort, Battles - Pea Ridge, Lexington, etc., and the battles on Price's last raid.

Dr. A. P. Brown, private; enlisted in December, 1861, in Robertson's regiment. Captured four days after on Blackwater by JefF. C. Davis' command. Took the oath, and came home after three months' imprisonment.

William Kiser, corporal; enlisted in Capt. Crews' company, 1861. Re-enlisted December, 1861. Captured at Blackwater, December 19, 1861. Released on taking the oath, 1862. Was in Missouri State Guard battles.

Wm. A. Snoddy, private; enlisted in Ed Brown's company, 1861 (see list), and re-enlisted in Capt, Stallard's company, Marmaduke's Escort, 1864. Surrendered in 1865, at Shreveport. Battles - Booneville, Lexington, and all the fighting of Price's last raid.

John J. Snoddy, private; enlisted, in 1862, in Stallard's company, Marmaduke's escort; re-enlisted in 1864; surrendered in 1865, and died at home, in 1876.

E. H. Lewis, private; enlisted in 1862, in Capt. Cake's battallion sharpshooters ; re-enlisted under Gen. Shelby, and surrendered in 1865. Battles - Carthage, Pleasant Hill, Little Saline, Prairie Grove, etc.

Capt. John Clark, captain; enlisted in 1862, under Shelby, afterwards captain of Marmaduke's escort. Killed at Helena, July, 1863. Battles - Spnngfield, Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Darcy, etc.

Channing M. Bulkley, private; enlisted, August 19, 1862, under Gen. Marmaduke; killed at Springfield, January 8, 1863, shot through the heart.

William A. Bulkley, private; enlisted under Marmaduke, September, 1861. Was at battles of Lexington, Pea Ridge, Hartsville and Springfield; wounded in hip and spine, January 11, 1863; died at Little Rock, the next September.

C. M. Pinkerton, private; enlisted in Shelby's command, in 1862, and in Marmaduke's escort ; discharged on Washita river, 1863. Battles - -Carthage, Lexington, Prairie Grove, Hartsville, Springfield, Marshall, Cane Ridge, etc.

John J. Little, private ; enlisted August, 1862, 1st Missouri Cavalry, company H. Wounded at Clarendon, Arkansas; taken prisoner, but escaped. Surrendered 1865.

James B. Brown, private ; enlisted, 1862, in-Capt. Sutherlin's company. In second battle of Pea Ridge, and wounded in left thigh. Surrendered in 1865.

W. B. Brown, private; enlisted in 1861; first, in Saline Jackson Guards, second, in Col. McCullough's regiment, and then under Gen. Shelby. Was wounded, by being thrown from his horse. Surrendered, 1865. Battles - Three at Newtonia, two at Lexington, two at Booneville, &c.

Chas. E. Wood, sergeant-major; enlisted in Clark's brigade, in. Price's last raid, and at the desperate battles of that raid. Surrendered, 1865.

John R. Durrett, private ; enlisted under Shelby, in 1861. Surrendered in 1865. Battles - Booneville, Helena, Cape Girardeau, Hartsville, Westport, etc. Was wounded slightly at Westport. Surrendered in 1865.

Joseph M. Cott, private; enlisted, first in M. S. G., in 1861, then under Congreve Jackson; then under Parsons, Green, and last in Gockrell's brigade. Surrendered in 1865. Battles - Pea Ridge, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, Franklin, Nashville, luka, etc.

B. J. Orear, private ; enlisted in 1863, in Jackman's brigade. Then under Gen. Green. Was in the battles of Price's raid. Surrendered, 1865.

Thos. L. Sidenstriker, private; Enlisted first in Robertson's regiment. Captured at Blackwater, December 19, 1861. Then in Marmaduke's escort. In the battles of Price's last raid. Mustered himself out in April, 1865.

W. A. Irvine, private; enlisted. May, 1861, in Capt. Ed. Brown's company. Again in Capt. Ruxton's company, December, 1861. Captured at Blackwater, December 19,1861 ; released on oath in 1862. Joined Price's raid in 1864. In all the battles of the raid. Surrendered, 1865.

D. W. Price, private; enlisted in Robertson's command, December, 1861. Captured at Blackwater with the command. Released on oath, March, 1862. Then in company K, Shank's regiment, Shelby's division, 1864. Surrendered at Shreveport, 1865. In all the battles of Shelby's division. Price's raid.

J. A. Rice, private; enlisted in Ed. Brown's company, May, 1861. Disbanded, June, 1861. Rfe-enlisted in company E, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division, 1864, and in all the battles of the division on the retreat. Surrendered, 1865.

R. W. Haynie, private, 3d corporal; enlisted in Crews' cornpany. May, 1861. re-enlisted in Robertson's command and captured at Blackwater. Exchanged at Vicksburg, September 8, 1862. Transferred to company G, 9th regiment Missouri infantry as orderly sergeant, in Parsons' division. Surrendered at Shreveport, 1865. Battles - Little Rock, Saline River, etc.

Marion Peterman, private ; enlisted in Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division, 1864; in the battles of the last raid; surrendered at Shreveport, 1865.

Wm. H. Handley, private; enlisted in company A, 10th Missouri Cavalry, Marmaduke's division, November, 1862; battles Prairie Grove, etc., and all the battles of last raid; surrendered at Shreveport, May, 1865.

Jacob Rockwell, private, 2d sergeant; enlisted June, 1861, Capt. Crew's company, M. S. G. ; then in Robertson's regiment of recruits ; captured at Blackwater December, 1861; released on oath March, 1862; re-enlisted under Shelby August, 1862; wounded and captured on the retreat after the battle of Marshall; remained in prison at Camp Morton, until paroled, March, 1865.

John Robertson, assistant wagon master; enlisted, December, 1861, in Robertson's regiment of recruits; captured at Blackwater; released on oath April, 1862.

J. D. Snelling, private; enlisted in company D, Williams' regiment, Shelby's division, 1864. In all the battles of the last raid. Surrendered June,. 1865.

E. D. Haynie, private, 2d lieutenant ; enhsted in Saline Jackson Guards May, 1861, in Robertson's recruits. Captured December 19, 1861. Re-enlisted in company E, 1st Missouri Cavalry, Col. Gordon. Wounded in stomach at Westport, 1864. Surrendered June, 1865.

John W. Benson, M. D.-, surgeon; first in Saline Jackson guards, then in Robertson's regiment of recruits. Captured at Blackwater, December 19, 1861, and held a prisoner, until released on oath.

W. O. Burgess, private; enlisted in Saline Jackson guards, April, 1861, then in Robertson's command. Captured at Blackwater. Exchanged at Vicksburg, then in 9th regiment Missouri infantry. Battles - Booneville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Little Rock, etc. Surrendered at Shreveport, 1865.

Jacob Burns, private ; enlisted in Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, 1st Missouri cavalry, Shelby's division, 1864. Battles - Westport and Newtonia. Surrendered, June, 1865.

Wm. Bishop, private; enlisted, April, 1861, in Brown's company, M.S. G. Battles - Boonville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Lexington^ and Pea Ridge. Wounded at Wilson's Creek. Re-enlisted, July, 1862, in Morgan's Ark. regiment. Discharged, October, 1862.

Geo. G. Duggans, M. D., reg. surgeon; in June, 1861, in Parsons' brigade. Taken prisoner and exchanged, 1862. In Well's regiment, King's brigade, Magruder's division.

J. B. Stockston, private; enlisted in 2d regiment infantry, M. S. G., September, 1861. Captured with Robertson's recruits, December, 1861. Exchanged. Enlisted in company G, 9th regiment, Missouri infantry, 1862. Surrendered, 1865.

Jesse Marr, private; enlisted under Bledsoe in 1861, in Raines' division. Disbanded in 1862. Battles - Lexington and Pea Ridge. Benj. T. Poe, captain in State Guard; enlisted, 2d sergeant August,

1862, company D, 11th Regiment and 2d Brigade Parsons' division. Battles - Prairie Grove, Marshfield, Jenkins' Ferry, Pleasant Hill and Little Rock. Surrendered in 1865.

G. Thos. Martin, private ; enlisted June 1861, Gordon's company, Weightman's brigade, M. S. G. Discharged December, 1861 ; in C. S. A., February, 1862, in Taylor's company 6th Regiment Missouri Infantry, Slack's brigade, Price's division, transferred to various commanders. Battles - Carthage, Wilson Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge, Corinth 1st and 2d, luka, around Vicksburg, etc., etc. Surrendered 1865.

Lemuel D. Stevenson, private; enlisted June, 18*61, Gordon's company, Weightman's brigade, M. S. G. Discharged December, 1861, in C. s. A., February, 1862, in Taylor's company 6th Regiment Missouri Infantry, Slack's Brigade, Price's division. Transferred to other commanders. Battles -Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge, 1st and 2d Corinth, luka, around Vicksburg, etc., etc. Surrendered 1865.

Rich B. Davis, private; enlisted fall, 1864, company C, 9th Regular Cavalry, Shelby's division. Battles - Lexington, Westport, and all the battles of the retreat. Surrendered, 1865.

Andrew C. Dysart, private; enlisted, 1862, in Smith's company, Boyd's regiment. Stein's division. Battles - Blue Mills and Lexington. Discharged November, 1862.

Godfred Wermelskirchen, private; enlisted, 1863, in Co. C, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's brigade. In all the battles of Price's retreat. Taken prisoner at the Blackwater capture, 1861, and held until November, 1862. Surrendered, 1865.

John W. Patterson, private; enlisted in Shindler's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's brigade, September, 1862. Battles - Lexington, Okalona, Mark's Mills, etc., etc. Surrendered, 1S65.

John W. Ehart, private; enlisted, 1861, in company K 1st Missouri Cavalry, Shelby's brigade. Captured in Arkansas December, 1863, and afterward in the battles of Price's retreat, 1864. Surrendered, 1866.

John L. Hall, private; enlisted June, 1861, M. S. G. Discharged December, 1861. Re-enlisted February, 1862, 6th Infantry, Slack's brigade. Price's division. C. S. A. Battles - Carthage, Springfield, Lexington, Pea Ridge. and Corinth. Died August 4, 1862, of pneumonia.

Percy Boulware, private; September, 1864, in Anderson's Guerrillas. In fights at Fayette, Rocheport, and Centralia. November, 1864, enlisted in company C, Gordon's regiment, Shelb5''s division. In all the battles of Price's retreat.

Simeon G. Davis, private ; September, 1864, in Anderson's Guerrillas. In fights at Fayette, Rocheport, and Centralia. November, 1864, enlisted in company C, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. In the battles of Price's retreat south.

Joseph F. Wood, private; enlisted spring of 1861, Captain Gaines' company. Battles - Booneville and Lexington. Captured at Blackwater with Robertson.

N. H. Lewis, Lieutenant; enlisted 1881 with Robertson's recruits, and captured December 19, 1861, released 1862. Re-enlisted with Captain Anderson.

F. R. Martin, lieutenant; enlisted June, 1861, in Gordon's company, Weightman's brigade, M. S. G. Battles - Carthage, Oakhill or Springfield, Dry Wood, i-icxington and Crane creek. Captured while sick at home. Released on oath. Went to Kentucky. Returned to Missouri and died May, 1867.

Thos.J. Gauldin, private; enlisted 1861, in Captain W. B. Brown's company. Discharged in September 1861. Re-enlisted in Robertson's recruits, but was not captured at Blackwater. Escaped, and joined Col- onel Dave Shank's regiment, Shelby's brigade. Battles - Booneville. Lexington, Wilson's Creek, Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Helena, Hartsville, Marshall, and in all the battles of Price's retreat, 1864. Surrendered 1865.

John W. Reynolds, private ; enlisted in 1861, in Captain Ed. Brown's company, Parsons' division, M. S. G. Battles - Booneville, Drj^ Wood, Lexington. Re-enlisted in 1864, in Marmaduke's escort. See roll.

G. D. Tucker, 3rd, lieutenant ; enlisted in captain Ed. Brown's company. Battles - Booneville, Wilson's Creek and Lexington. Re-enlisted, private, in 1864, in Marmaduke's escort. See roll.

James C. Kitchen, private; enlisted in 1861, in Captain Ed. Brown's company. Re-enlisted in 1864, in company G, 4th, Missouri cavalry. Battles - Booneville, Lexington, Tabo, Little aad Big Blue, Westport, and Newtonia. Surrendered in 1865.

W. B. Dick, corporal; enlisted in June, 1861, in Capt. Crews' company. Re-enlisted in Robertson's recruits, December, 1861, but escaped when the command was captured at Blackwater. Battles - Booneville, Carthage, Drvwood, Wilson's Creek, and Lexington.

John W. Guthrey, 2d corporal; enlisted May, 1861, first, in Capt. Ed. Brown's company, then in Capt. Ruxton's company C, Col. Robertson's regiment. Captured at Blackwater, December 19, 1861. Exchanged company. Re-enlisted December, 1861, in Robertson's recruits. Captured at Blackwater. Released ono ath, 1862. Battles --Booneville, Dry Wood, and Lexington.

Geo. Casebolt, company commissary; enlisted in the fall of 1864, in Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. Transferred to Slayback's regiment. Battles - Independence, Newtonia. Surrendered, 1865.

Wm. H. Bowen, color -sergeant; enlisted in Robertson's recruits, December, 1861, and captured with them December 1,9, 1861. Released on oath, August, 1862. Died September 22, 1862.

J. V. Davis, private; enlisted, October, 1864, Capt. Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. Afterward transferred to Edmonson's company, 9th Missouri Infantry. In all the battles of Price's retreat. Surrendered in 1865.

C. H. Davis, 'private; enlisted, October, 1864, in Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. Afterward transferred to Edmonson's company, 9th Missouri Infantry, same division. In all the battles of the retreat. Surrendered, 1865.

John B. Davis, private; enlisted, 1861, in Robertson's recruits. Captured on Blackwater, December 19, 1861. Exchanged, September, 1862. Rdoined the Confederate army.

Thomas Evans, private ; enlisted, 1862, in Quantrell's Partisan Rangers. Was in all Quantrell's battles and fights in Missouri, and in his last fight in Kentucky, where he was taken prisoner, and retained on charge of killing Lieutenant Cunningham, U. S. A., until 1866, when he was par-

A.J. Casebolt, private ; enlisted in the fall of 1864, in Nixon's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. He was in all the battles of Price's retreat, in one of which his horse was shot from under him. Surrendered in 1865.

Geo. M. Rider, private; enlisted, first, in Confederate army, fall of 1861. Was captured near Warrensburg, and there enlisted in the U. S. A., and staid till the war was over. Was very young. Ran away to the army.

John W. Evans, assistant surgeon; enlisted in 1861. Was in Galbraith's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's brigade and division. Battles - Lexington, Booneville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Corinth and all Shelby's battles. Was captured in the fall of 1862, while on furlough. Was released as surgeon, after six months, and returned to his command.

H. D. [Clay] Evans, lieutenant ; enlisted in 1861. At home on furlough, December, 1861, was captured with Robertson's recruits at Blackwater. Exchanged at Vicksburg in 1862. Rejoined Shelby, company A, Gordon's regiment, as lieutenant, and was in all the battles in which Shelby was engaged. Surrendered at Shreveport, 1865; and died in the fall of 1880. _ . _

Hezekiah Smith, private; enlisted, 1864, in Galbraith's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's command, C. S. A. Battles - Lexington, Westport and Newtonia. Was taken prisoner at the last mentioned battle, in 1864, and sent to Rock Island, and was discharged at the end of the war.

James M. Evans, private; enlisted in 1861. Was in Galbraith's company, and then Gordon's regiment, Shelby's division. Battles - Booneville, Lexington, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Corinth and in all Shelby's battles, until he was killed accidentally at Memphis, Tennessee, by the discharge of his own pistol.

Wm.M. Hutchess, private ; enlisted in Saline Jackson Guards April, 1861. Re-enlisted in Robertson's recruits, and was captured December 19, 1861, at Blackwater. Re-enlisted under Gen. Marmaduke, October, 1863. Battles - Booneville- and Lexington, and all of Marmaduke's battles after October, 1863. Surrendered, May, 1865.

James M. Odell, private; enlisted in 1864, in Capt. Diver's company, Wood's regiment, Shelby's division, and was in all the fights and battles of the raid, from Waverly to Newtonia.

John K. Lewis, private; enhsted in 1862, in Kirtly's company; afterwards in Marmaduke's body guard. See roll. Wounded in three places witn piece of shell, and disabled for seven months,

James P. Adams, private; enlisted in 1864, in Capt. Harris' company. Wood's battalion. In all the fights and battles of the great raid, from Independence to Newtonia.

John B. Peterson, private; enlisted in 1861, in Emmerson's company, and captured with it at Blackwater. Was exchanged in 1862 and returned home. In 1862, re-enlisted in Capt. Jackson's company of cavalry, under Gen. Parsons. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Lone Jack, Little Rock, Helena, Mansfield,Camden, Jenkin's Ferry.

captured December 19, 1861. Took the oath of loyalty at Alton, and returned home. In 1862 re-enlisted in Capt. Elliott's company, Gordon's regiment, Shelby's brigade. Battles - Pennville, Prairie Grove, Hartsville, Little Rock, Camden, Coon creek, Cove creek.

Andrew J. Odell, private; enlisted October 1864, in Diver's company. Wood's regiment, Shelby's division. Was in all the fights of Price's retreat from Glasgow to Newtonia.

Richard E. Holmes, private; enlisted 1861, in Robertson's regiment of recruits, and captured December 19, 1861. Took oath of loyalty April, 1862; and came home.

W. S. Kinkead, private; enlisted in Capt. Emmerson's company, Robertson's recruits, but was not captured with the regiment at the Blackwater capture. In 1864 re-enlisted in Capt. Payne's company, Wood's regiment. In all the battles and fights of the Price raid, from Independence to Newtonia. '

William K. Smith, private ; enlisted in M. S. G., in 1861. Re-enlisted -in 1863, in company H, 10th Missouri cavalry, under Gen. Marmaduke. Battles - Pea Ridge, Jenkin's Ferry, Cane Hill and Pine Bluff. Surren- .dered, 1865.

George W. Gilliam, private; 3d lieutenant. Enlisted in 1861, in company G, Marmaduke's, afterward McCulloch's regiment, Gen. Forrest. See muster roll.

Asa P. Thompson, private ; enlisted June, 1861, in Sutherlin's company. Brown's regiment. Wounded in the shoulder at Big Blue, 1864, and died at Cane Hill two weeks after, November 6, 1864.

James Thornton, private. Enlisted in Capt. Diver's company,* Col. Wood's regiment in October, 1864. Was in the battles of Lexington, Big Blue, ^dependence, Newtonia and near Fort Scott.

James K. Staples, private. Enlisted in Capt. Paul's company and Col. Wood's regiment, Shelby's division, in 1864. Unarmed and in no battles.

John S. Staples, private. Enlisted in 1861, first in Capt. Brown's company M. S. G.; again in 1864 in Col. Wood's regiment, Woodson's company, Shelby's division. In battles of Booneville, Drywood and Lexington. In last campaign was unarmed.

P. M. Thompson, captain. Enlisted in M. S. G. on Col. Dill's staff. Was at the battles of Drywood and Lexington. Captured at home in this county.

George Willis, private. Enlisted in company G., Williams' regiment, Shelby's division, 1864. In the battles of Booneville, Little and Big Blue, Independence and Westport. Surrendered in 1865.

James Neff, private. Enlisted in 1861 in Capt. Brown's company, Col. McCuUough's regiment, Parsons' brigade. Battles - Booneville, Carthage and Springfield. See biography.

John M.Tennill, private; enlisted, 1861, in M. S. G. In 1862, re-enlisted in company E, 1st Missouri cavalry. Battles - Booneville, Lexington, Dry Wood, Cape Giardeau, Wilson's Creek, Hartsville, and others. Badly wounded at Cape Giarardeau. Taken prisoner many times, but escaped. Surrendered in 1865.

L. James Wilkes, private; started south with Robertson's recruits and captured, December 19, 1861, on Blackwater; taken to St. Louis and Alton and released on parole. Enlisted, November, 1863, in companv E, 1st Missouri cavalry. Battles of Hickory Station, Ditch Bayou, Marks' Mills, Prairie De Ann, Little Mission, Big Blue, etc. Wounded and captured at Big Blue.

V, W. Dawson, private; enlisted, 1862, in CuSpin's company, Gordon's regiment. Captured at Helena and held seven months, and exchanged at Richmond; and* joined 2d Missouri cavalry, in Sutherlin's company, 1865. Battles - Wilson's Creek, Hartsville, Marshfield, Poison Spring, Marks' Mill, Marshall, Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Helena. Surrendered, 1865.

Wiley Fackler, Marmaduke's and Shelby's staff; enlisted in July, 1861. Taken prisoner with jRobertson's recruits, December 19, 1861, and released on parole at Alton, Ills. Returned to the army, and on Marmaduke's staff. Again captured, but soon exchanged. Marmaduke's provost-marshal. Wounded at Hartsville. Battles of Booneville, Hartsville, Springfield, and nearly all of the battles west of the river. Surrendered in 1865. Afterward killed by the Indians on the plains.

E. M. Brasher, major; volunteered in M. S. G. in Raines' division, then in Shelby's brigade C. S. A. Battles of Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Hartville, Cape Girardeau, Helena, Marshal, Prairie Grove and Little Rock. Captured at Marshall, and held eleven months.

A. C. Major, private; volunteered, and was captured in Robertson's recruits December 19, 1861, on Blackwater and taken to St. Louis, and then to Alton, Ills. Died in prison January, 1862, of congestion.

Wilson's Creek and Lexington. Captured December 19, 1861, with Robertson's recruits on Blackwater. Taken to St. Louis and to Alton. Released on parole. Killed in 1863, by militia.

John Paxton, private ; enlisted in Elliott's company, 1st Missouri Cavalry, 1864. In all the battles of Price's retreat south, 1864. Surrendered June, 1865.

A. C. Garnett, private; volunteered in M. S. G., in 1861, in Capt. Ed. Brown's company, and was in the battles of Booneville Drywood, Lexington, etc. Captured with Robertson's recruits December 19, 1861. Taken to St. Louis, then to Alton, Ills., and released on parole. In 1862, enlisted in company E, 1st Missouri cavalry. In battles of Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Helena, Little Rock, Prairie DeAnn, Mark's Mills and all the fights of Price's last raid.

Wm. L. Paxton, private; captured December 19, 1861, with Robertson's recruits on Blackwater, taken to St. Louis and to Alton, 111. Released on taking oath in the spring of 1862. In 1862 enlisted in Elliott's company, 1st Missouri cavalry. Was in all the battles fought by Shelby after 1862. Surrendered, June, 1865.

Dr. T. A. Martin, private; enlisted in Collin's famous battery, 1st Missouri cavalry in 1862, and was in all the battles in which Shelby was engaged, and surrendered June, 1865.

Thomas J. Gauldin, private; volunteered in Capt. Wm. Brown's company, M. S. G. in 1861, and on the 19th of December, 1861, was captured with Robertson's recruits on Blackwater, taken to St. Louis, and to Alton Ills. Released on parole in the spring of 1862, and in the fall of 1862, enlisted in company K, 8th Missouri cavalry. Shank's regiment, and in all the battles engaged in by Shelby after the fall of 1862. Surrendered, June, 1865.

James M. Gauldin, private; enlisted in 1864, in Shelby's division, and was in all the battles of Price's retreat south; surrendered, June, 1865.

John A. Gilliam, private; captured, December 19, 1861, with Robertson's recruits on Blackwater, taken to St. Louis, and died in prison of measles.

Thos. T. Major, orderly sergeant; volunteered in Crews' company. May, 1861; discharged, September, 1861. Battles - Carthage and Wilson creek, where he was captured, but escaped.

E. S. Carpenter, private; captured on Blackwater with Robertson's recruits; taken to St. Louis, then to Alton, Illinois. Released on taking the oath, and came home.

Noel Chamberlain, private; enlisted in 1864 in Marmaduke's escort company. Battles of Lexington, Little Blue, Westport, Little Osage, Newtonia, etc. Surrendered, 1865.

Wm. Montgomery, private; enlisted in 1862 in Shelby's old regiment, 1st Missouri Cavalry. Battles of Big and Little Blues, etc. Deserted Price and returned home, and joined company A, Capt. Crane.

C. C. Wingfield, private; enlisted in 1864 in Col. Wood's regiment. Battles of Lexington, Big and Little Blues, Westport, Little Osage, and Newtonia. Captured at Newtonia and taken to Rock Island. Released at the surrender.

J. S. Burke, private. Captured on Blackwater, December 19, 1861, with Robertson's recruits, taken to St. Louis, then to Alton, Illinois, and released on oath in 1862. Re-enlisted in 1864 in Col. Wood's regiment, under Shelby. Battles - Big and Little Blues and in all the battles of Price's retreat.

Thos. B. Mclntire, 2d lieutenant, was first under Gen. Price, then under Gen. Joe. E. Johnson. Battles - Lexington, Pea Ridge, Corinth, luka, Grand Gulf, Champion Hill, Big Black, and taken prisoner at the siege of Vicksburg, and held for eighteen months.

Chas. W. Do wnes, private; enlisted in 1864 in Capt. Divers' company, Woods' battalion. Battles - Lexington, Independence, Big and Little Blues and Westport, where he received a flesh wound in right shoulder - not serious.

Patrick Cooney, private; enlisted, 1864, company C, Col. Crisp's regiment. Battles - Lexington, Big and Little Blues, Independence, Westport and Newtonia.

John H. Stephens, private; enlisted, 1864, in Capt. Elliott's company, 1st Missouri cavalry. Was at the battles of Independence, Blues, Westport and Newtonia, but being unarmed, took no active part.

Federal, Or Union, Soldiers' Record Company B, Seventh Regiment Missouri State Militia

This company was in all the battles with Shelby, from the summer of 1863, inclusive, until Gen. Price's army was finally ejected from the state, in 1864.

Muster Roll Company F, 71St Regiment E. M. M.

MUSTER ROLL COMPANY F, 71ST REGIMENT E. M. M. A. Burnsides, .captain, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. W. P. Hunter, 1st lieutenant, resigned April 4, 1863.

G. S. Burnsides, 2d lieutenant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. F. F. Audley, 1st sergeant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. W. A. Burnsides, 2d sergeant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. - McLaughlin, 3d sergeant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. H. H. Renick, 4th sergeant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. O. B. Gwinn, com. sergeant, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. Sam Huffman, 1st corporal, relieved from duty April, 7, 1863. ^ J. H. Robinson, 2d corporal, relieved from duty April 7, 1863.

E. Audley, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. John Armstrong, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. W. J. Bittle, relieved from duty December 23, 1862.

D. L. Cameron, relieved from duty November 5, 1862. Ab. Chron, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. H. Clark, relieved from duty December 23, 1862. Wm. Clark, not ordered into service. F. Chapman, discharged for disability.

George Erwin, relieved from duty December 23, 1862. James Elson, relieved from duty December 23, 1862. Eug. Earls, relieved from duty December 23, 1862. Jo. Edwards, paid com'n tax.

J. J. Ferril, discharged December 19, 1862. Elected county judge. . E. Goodman. John Harris, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. M. Harris, died November 11, 1862. H. C. Harris, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. Stephen Harris, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. H. Hughes, discharged December 23, 1862. Wm. Hyland, relieved from dutj^ April 7, 1863. T. E. Hisler, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. John Hatton, deserted December 24, 1863. Jo. Hoffman, not ordered into active service. B. W. Johnson, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. D. Jackson, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. Robert Jackson, discharged for disability January 15, 1863. Ab. Jackson, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. James Kelly, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. M. F. Kirby, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. W. T. Lemon, relieved from duty April 7, 1863. D. P. Lemon, exempt for disabiHty. T. J. Lemon, exempt for disability. D. Little, not ordered into service. Steph. Mayfield, died February 17, 1863.

Muster Roll, Company G, 71St E. M. M.

Wm. L. Corum, captain, relieved from duty, December 21, 1862. J. R. Fulkerson, 1st lieutenant, relieved from duty, April 3, 1863. William H. Browning, 2d lieutenant, relieved from duty, April 3, 1863. John A. Fulkerson, 1st sergeant, relieved from duty, April 3, 1863. S. C. Aulger, 2d sergeant, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. Jno. Carmett, 3d sergeant, relieved from duty November 30, 1862. Wm. C. Thompson, 4th sergeant, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862.

I. N. Wood, 5th sergeant, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. G. W. Wood, 1st corporal, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. W. P. Lindsay, 2d corporal; relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. I. N. Patterson, 3d corporal, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. S. B. Harrison, 4th corporal, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. S. B. Holland, 5th corporal, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. E. H. Fulkerson, 6th corporal, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. Pete Akeman, private, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. B. Aulger, private, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. M. Aulger, private, reUeved from duty, April 5, 1863. J. S. Aulger, private, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. J. Buck, private, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862.

A. M. Bouldin, relieved from duty, November, 30, 1862. Chas. Bishop, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. L. Carey, relieved from dut)-, November 30, 1862.

F. Campbell, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. W. D. Carmack, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. S. C. Carey, relieved from duty, February 20, 1862.

B. G. Doyle, relieved from duty, November 20, 1862. J. W. Davis, relieved from duty, December 23, 1862. P. Duffey, relieved from duty, December 23, 1862. Aug. Deerking, relieved from duty, December 23, 1862. I. W. Elsea, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863.

T. C. Elliott, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. Jas. Friell,'relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. N. Graham, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. P. Hagan, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862.

J. W. Hayse, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. W. R. Hayse, relieved from duty, November 30, 1862. W. J. Highly, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. W. H. Harrison, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. Jo. Hicks, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. Jo. Havelin, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. G. W. Harris, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. T. D. Harris, relieved from duty, April 5, 1863. A. P. Harris, relieved fropi duty, April 5, 1863.

John F. Philips, colonel; Thomas T. Crittenden, lieutenant colonel; Benjamin H. Wilson, captain; R. J. Leaming, 1st lieutenant; Johm S. , Crane, 2d lieutenant *

C. H. Parker, private; corporal, sergeant, enlisted August 9, 1862, under Captain Love, discharged June, 1865. Battles - Lone Jac;k, Prairie Grove, Van Buren, Br ownville, Kentucky, etc. Taken prisoner by gnierrillas, 1863.

J. H. Montgomery, 1st lieutenant ; in company H, 1st Missouri infantry, October, 1862. Wounded in action. Discharged, June, 1864. Battles - Gaines' Landing, Mansfield, etc.

Joseph Pittman, private; enlisted, 1860, in Capt. Wilson's company, 7th regiment, M. S. M. In all the battles with Price's raid. Discharged, 1865.

William Nye, private; or sergeant; enlisted in 71st E. M., 1862. Transferred to 5th Prov. regiment, 1 863. With Captain Bingham, in Home Guards, 1864. Escaped from Glasgow, when bombarded by Shelby, 1864.

,Thomas D. Parks, private; enlisted September, 1864, in company C, 45th Regiment Missouri Volunteer infantry. Died of typhoid fever in St. Louis, March, 1865.

G. S. Burnsides, 1st lieutenant and captain company E, 71st E. M. M., and of company 5, Missouri Prov. Regiment; enlisted August, 1862. Discharged 1863. See roster. Lone Jack, battle of.

H. B. Tickemeyer, private; enlisted August, 1862, in company F, 7th Regiment M. S. M. Battles of Prairie Grove, Little Rock, Saline River, &c.

Wm. L. Grain, 1st sergeant; enlisted 1862 in company F, 7th M. S. M. Battles of Fayetteville, Booneville, Jefferson City, Big Blue and Mine Run.

John S. Burnsides, corporal; enlisted, 1861, company L, 9th Missouri cavalry volunteers. Battles - Prairie Grove, Cross Hollows, Marks Mills, Saline River, etc. Discharged, 1865.

Benj. Sullivan, private; enlisted in company H, 9th M. S. M. Battles - Fayette, Ft. Scott, Lexington, Independence, Little and Big Blues, Newport, Newtonia, etc./ Discharged, 1865.

R. S. Sandidge, 2d sergeant; enlisted in company E, 7th regiment M. S. M. Was captured at Prairie Grove, 1862, and escaped soon after. Promoted to captaincy, but never mustered in.

Reconstruction Period, And Political Events

The period of time that intervened between the closing of the war, in April, 1865, and November, 1870, in Missouri, and 1876 in the Gulf states, is generally known as the " Reconstruction period ." The surrender of the Confederate armies, in the spring of 1 865, left the states known as the Confederate States, under military government; and either one of two courses was open to the United States government, in its dealings with the states so lately in rebellion. One was, to carry out the terms upon which Gen. Sherman had received the surrender of Johnston's army, restoring the southern states to their forfeited places and rights in the Union, or to take them (as they had been) overthrown by the war, to disfrahchise those engaged in rebellion, and to enter upon a plan of reconstruction.

The first, it is claimed, was the plan favored by President Lincoln, and the plan that would have been adopted had he lived. Had such a plan been adopted, the "solid south" would then never have been known in party history. But President Lincoln yielded up his kindly life in the very hour of his ^reat triumph, and the direction of affairs passed into other and less kindly hands. The terms of the Johnston surrender were repudiated, and the government entered upon a regular plan of reconstruction and rehabitation of southern states.

Missouri, it is true, did not come under this classification .exactly. The general government inaugurated the reconstruction of the Confederate states proper, while the state government established reconstruction in Missouri. During the very days of the surrender, the constitutional convention of Missiouri was in session, and the constitution then adopted, disfranchised all who were in sympathy with the south and the Confederate states.

Under the Gamble regime, in the election canvass of 1862, secession had already perished as an issue, except in certain localities. All candidates for office, and neai-ly all who attempted to vote, professed loyalty to the Federal government. The legislature elected this year was overwhelmingly loyal, and proceeded at once, January, 1863, to elect U. S. senators in the places of Trusten Polk and Waldo P. Johnson, whom the senate had expelled for disloyalty.

County officials were also elected this year under the Gamble provisional government; and, in Saline, as elsewere in the state, parties began to assume the names of " conservative " and "^radical."

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As will be seen by the foregoing table, W. L. Corum was elected to the lower house of the general assembly, J. J. Ferrill, county judge; B. H. Hawpe, sheriff; P. E. Maupin, coroner; and J. C. Keithley treasurer. At this time J. R. Berryman was clerk of the county court by appointment of Gov. Hall. Civil law and processes were maintained to a great extent during the next two years, notwithstanding the prevalence of martial law, and the presence of the military in the county.

In 1863, there was a warm canvass between the "conservative" and *' radical " parties for the judges of the supreme court elected that year.

The radicals nominated H. A. Clover, Arnold Krekel, and David Wagner. The conservatives, without regular nomination, voted for Barton Bates, W. V. N. Bay and J. D. S. Dryden. Judges Bates, Bay and Dryden, were elected. Saline voting for them.

At the adjourned term of the legislature, November, 1863, an act was passed submitting the call of a constitutional convention to the people at the next election, November, 1864. In these elections of 1862, 1863, and 1864, the vote of county, as well as of the state, was very small, the application of even so mild a test oath as that to support the constitution of the United States, had cut off nearly all the southern sympathizers, not already in the army. Between four and five hundred votes being all that were cast.

At the election in 1864, which was national, state and county, county officials were elected, and the proposition for a convention voted on. The records contain no table of this election. The convention carried by a small majority in the state. P. W. Thompson was elected county judge ; P. E. Maupin, county clerk; and J. R. Berrj'man, circuit clerk.

At the election of delegates to the convention, F. M. Fulkerson was elected delegate from this district, and the convention assembled on the 6th of January, 1865. Judge Fulkerson was elected by the " Radical " party, and was, of course, in fuU sympathy with their views. The original design of the callers of this convention, known in history as the " Drake Convention," was only to pass certain amendments to the existing constitution, but soon after its first assembling, the convention determined to make a new constitution in toto .

One of the first acts of the convention was to abolish slavery in Missouri; the next was to fix the qualifications of voters, by the passage of the famous III section, and the test oath of loyalty founded on it, which were as follows :

Oath Of Loyalty

Section III. At any election held by the people under this constitution, or in pursuance of any lav^r of this state, or any ordinance or by-law of any municipal corporation, no person shall be deemed a qualified voter, who has ever been in armed hostility to the United States, or to the lawful authorities thereof, or to the goverement of this state, or has ever given aid, comfort, countenance, or support to persons engaged in any such hostility ; or has ever in any manner, adhered to the enemies, foreign or domestic, of the United States, either by contributing to them, or by unlawfully sending within their lines money, goods, letters, or information ; or has ever disloyally held communication with such enemies, or has ever advised^ or aided any person to enter the service of such enemies; or has ever, by act or word, manifested his. adherence to the cause of such enemies, or his desire for their triumph over the armies of the United States, or his sympathy with those engaged in exciting or carrying on rebellion against the United States ; or has ever, except under overpowering compulsion, submitted to the authority, or been in the service of the so-called " Confederate States of America;" or has ever left this state, and gone within the lines of the armies of the so-called " Confederate States of America " with the purpose of adhering to said states or armies, or has ever been a member of, or connected with, any order, society, or organization inimical to to the government of the United States, or to the government of this state; or has ever been engaged in guerrilla warfare against loyal inhabitants of the United States, or in that description of marauding commonlv known as "bushwhacking;" or has ever knowingly or willingly harbored, aided, or countenanced any person so engaged ; or has ever come into, or has ever left this state for the purpose of avoiding enrollment for, or draft into the military service of the United States ; or has ever, with a view to avoid enrollment in the militia of this state, or to escape the performance of duty therein, or for any other purpose, enrolled .himself, or authorized himself to be enrolled, by or before any officer as disloyal or as a southern sympathizer, or in any other terms indicating his disaffection to the government of the United States in its contest with the rebellion, or his sympathy with those engaged in such rebellion, or having ever voted at any election by the people in this state, or in any other of the United States, or in any of their territories, or held ofHce in this state, or any other of the United States, or in any of their territories, or under the United States, shall thereafter have sought or received, under claim of alienage, the protection of any foreign government, through any consul, or other officer thereof, in order to secure exemption from military duty in the militia of this state or in the army of the United States; nor shall any such person be capable of holding in this state any office of honor, trust, or profit under its authority; or of being any officer, councilman, director, trustee, or other manager of any corporation, public or private, now existing, or hereafter established by its authority; or of acting as a professor or teacher in any educational institution, or in any common or other school; or of holding any real estate or any property in trust for the use of church, religious society, or congregation.

But the foregoing provisions in relation to acts done against the United States^ shall not apply to any person not a citizen thereof, who shall have committed such acts while in the service of some foreign country at war with the United States, and who has, since such acts, been natur-alized, or may hereafter be naturalized under the laws of the United States; and the oath of loyalty hereafter prescribed, when takfen by any such person, shall be considered as taken in such sense.

of the third section of the second article of the constitution of the state of Missouri, adopted in the year 18'65, and have carefully considered the same ; that I have never, directly or indirectly, done any of the acts in said section specified; that I have always been truly and loyally on the side of the United States, against all enemies thereof, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support the constitution and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will, to the best of my ability, protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the government thereof to be destroyed or overthrown, under any circumstances, if in my power to prevent it; that I will support the constitution of the state of Missouri, and that I make this oath without any mental reservation or evasion, and hold it to be binding on me."

Under this section, no person was permitted to practice law, or be a minister of the gospel, or print, or to teach, or to preach, or to perform the marriage service, without first taking the oath of loyalty. The final vote in the convention on the third section, and the test oath, was as follows :

Ayes - Messrs. Barr,Bonham, Bunce, Childers, Clover, Davis of Nodaway, Dodson, Drake, Esther, Folmsbee, Fulkerson, Gamble, Gilbert of Lawrence, Henderson, Holsworth, Holland (now a citizen of Marshall, Saline county), Hume, King, Leonard, McKerhan, McPherson, Mack, Smith of Mercer, Smith of Worth, Strong, Sutton, Swearingen, Weatherby, Williams of Caldwell, and Williams of Scotland - 30.

Sec. 2. The governor shall be at least thirtyyfive years old, a white male citizen of the United States ten years, "and a resident of the state of Missouri seven years next before his election.

While this section was under consideration, March 8, 1865, Mr. (now Dr.) Holland, of Henry (now of Saline), moved to strike out the wordfe " white male," which was lost by a tie vote, as follows :

Ayes - Messrs. Badd, Bush, D'Ooult, Drake, Ellis, Evans, Filley, Foster, Gilbert of Lawrence, Holcomb, Holland, Husmann, King, Linton, McKernan, McPherson, Meyer, Nixdorf, Owens, Rohrer, St. Gem, Thilenius, Williams of Caldwell, WiUiams of Scotland, and Mr. President (Krekel) - 25.

Noes - Messrs. Bonham, Bunce, Childress, Clover, Cowden, Davis of New Madrid, Davis of Nodaway, Dodson, Fletcher, Folmsbee, Fulkerson, Gamble, Henderson, Holdsworth, Hume, Mack, Martin, Newgent, Peck, Rankin, Smith of Mercer, Strong, Sutton, Swearingen, and Switzler - 25.

11, to Strike out the words/' white males," in sections three and five, in the article on the legislative department, whereby any person, white or black, male or female, would be eligible to a seat in the general assembly. On the 8th day of April, 1865, the constitution was adopted, and on the 6th of June, 1865, was submitted to the people, for their adoption or rejection. The vote in Saline was as follows - only 451 votes cast:

New Constitution

On the 1st day of July, 1865, the votes having been counted, Gov. T. C. Fletcher issued his proclamation declaring the constitution adopted and in force in Missouri on and after the 4th of July, 1865.

By ordina.nce of the constitution, all the state and county offices were vacated, and to be filled under the constitution at the next, or first general election, November, 1866.

The general assembly which assembled in November, 1865, passed extremely stringent registry laws in order to enforce the test oath of the constitution. The supervisor of registration for each district was elected by the people, and the board of registration of three for each county were appointed by the supervisor. The extreme rigor of the test oath, and the firmness with which it was enforced by the board of registration in Saline county, caused many scenes of violence and bloodshed - which became more bitter and violent, as time wore on, until it at length became necessary for the board to demand and receive a guard to protect them in their duties through Saline county.

Even as early as the canvass of 1866, several leading republicans, such as Carl Schurz and B. Gratz Brown, began to consider the propriety of universal amnesty and enfranchisement. Gen. Frank P. Blair, who had been an anti-slavery man always, and a general in the Federal army, now that slavery was abolished and the war over, returned to his old political allegiance, the democratic party, and denounced the test oath of the constitution, demanding, as he said, a more magnanimous policy. In this campaign the democrats threw off their bogus name of "conservative," and re-assumed their rightful name. Gen. Blair made a general canvass of the state, and party excitement ran high. During the canvass Gen.

Blair spoke at Marshall, in Saline county. The republicans interrupted his speech, and a melee ensued, in which a republican named Butt wa ^ dangerously wounded, but afterward -recovered, though it was thought at the time that his wound was certainly mortal.

The vote in Saline county under the new registry law increased slightly in this election, amounting to a total of 798 votes. The vote of the county for the various ofKces, in 1866, was as follows:

State Auditor And Registrar Op Lands

After the election of 1867, the excitement in a great measure died out. The soldiers from both armies had now nearly all returned home, and were busily engaged trying to remove the havoc war had made. Quiet and peace generally reigned in Saline. On the 7th of January, 1868, the 24th general assembly met, and enacted a new registry law, more rigorous than the old one, authorized the governor to appoint the supervisor of registration in each senatorial district, each year of a general election. On the 14th of the January previous (1867) the supreme court of the United States had decided the test oath in Missouri to be unconstitutional, this act of the legislature passing a new registry law for the more rigid enforcement of the III. section and test oath, created great excitement in the state, and in Saline county, and hastened the inevitable day when the whole would be repealed. An amendment of the constitution, enfranchising the negroes, was submitted to the people, at the November election, 1868, and voted down. The vote of Saline, in November, 1868, was as follows:

Constitutional. Amendment

In this election, Judge Landon, the probate judge, declared that his term of office had not expired, and that he was not then a candidate for the office of probate judge. But many thought he was mistaken, and Mr. T. M. Dow, democrat, ran for the office getting the democrat vote. Judge Landon's decision was sustained, and he continued to hold the office for two years longer, or until the flood of 1870.

During the year 1869, the break up in the republican party grew wider and wider, upon the question of universal amnesty and enfranchisement- Carl Schurz stumped the state in favor of universal enfranchisement, and in this year it became evident that if the test oath was not voluntary abolished by the republicans, the republican party itself would be rent in twain. It soon became evident to all that the iron-clad oath for voters, jurymen, ministers, lawyers, teachers, etc., must be repealed. In 1870, the democrats, believing that the discord in the republican party would soon result in the repeal of the test oath and III. section, declined any part in the can-- vass as an organized body, and refused to make nominations. After this, the division in the republican party grew rapidly; and on the 31st of August, 1870, when the republican state nominating convention met at Jefferson City, it was plain to all that a split was imminent. On the third day of the session the committee on resolutions made two reports, a majority and a minority report. The majority platform, which was reported by Carl Schurz, chairman of the committee, was liberal, and declared that the time had come in Missouri for general amnesty and the repeal of all test oaths. The minority platform, on the contrary, declared that such time had not arrived, and that the popular vote of the state should determine when it had arrived. The minority platform was adopted, 349 for, 342 against. As soon as the vote was declared, 250 delegates, headed by Carl Schurz, withdrew from the body, amid the wildest excitement. The seceders proceeded to organize a separate convention, adopted the liberal platform, and nominated a full state ticket, headed with B. Gratz Brown for governor.

The straight republican convention also nominated a full state ticket. The canvass was one of the most exciting ever witnessed in Saline county. At first, as there seemed no hope for the relief of any disfranchised democrats until the liberal party were established in power, there was very littie noise or disturbance; and the registrars, Vandyke, Bingham and , proceeded to register the county, applying the test oath as rigorously as in former years. But toward the latter end of the canvass the liberal movement became so strong that it became aggressive. Mr. R. B. Thorpe, of Saline, member of the liberal republican state committee, applied to the supervisor of registration of this district for the removal of the old board of registers in Saline, and the appointment of a new board, more in sympathy with the liberal movement. Being a liberal repiiblican himself, the supervisor, Col. Richard Ritter, immediately did as he was requested, removed the old board, appointed Dr. Robert McNutt, S. C. Aulger and George Smith registers, with orders to take a new registration in Saline. In this new registration the III section was almost wholly ignored, and the only oath required was that the affiant had not been in arms against the United States, and would hereafter support the constitution of the United States. Under the call of Mr. R. B. Thorpe, member of the liberal state committee, a liberal county convention, consisting of delegates from every township in the county assembled in Marshall and nominated candidates for the county offices. The election of 1870 resulted in the election of the liberal republicans not only in the state, but also in Saline county. The vote of Saline at this memorable election was as follows:

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Devol and Comingo were the democratic and republican candidates; Beard and Smith the radical republican nominees. Wagner liad no opposition.

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For the constitutional amendments, of which there were several, the most important, however, being that repealing the third section and the test oath, the vote in Saline stood : For, 2,340 ; against, 22.

In 1872, the "Liberal Republican party," having accomplished its mission of enfranchisement, had ceased to exist as a distinct organization. The democratic party in Saline (and throughout the state) organized for the campaign, and held its convention in Marshall. A full ticket was nominated, except county treasurer, which was given to the liberals. The republicans also put out a fuU ticket.

Congress. State Senate

The vote in SaHne for state officers, in 1872, was as follows : Democratic, 2,841 ; republican, 1,293. Woodson was elected . governor, over Henderson. For county officers, the vote was as follows:

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In 1874, the republican party undertook to play the " Passive Policy " which had proved so successful for the democrats in 1870, and nominated no candidates for either state or county offices. A party, called the " Tadpole Party " was formed, for whose candidates the republicans voted. C. H. Hardin, the democratic candidate for governor, was elected over Gentry, the Tadpole candidate, by a majority of 37,462 votes, which was also the majority of the whole state democratic ticket. In Saline the vote on the state ticket stood 2,696 democratic, and 1,112 republican, and Tadpole.

The county canvass this year, was an exceedingly bitter and exciting one, especially as related to county clerk. Two aspirants for the democratic nomination for county clerk canvassed the county, the one. Colonel W. S.Jackson as an old-line, life-long democrat, and the other, James R. Berryman, as a democrat only since the war. The democratic county nominating convention met in Marshall, and after an exciting contest nominated Berryman by a decided majority. Colonel Jackson denounced the nomination as brought about by fraud in Cambridge and Blackwater townships. At his desire, by a call of the chairman, the convention re-assembled in Marshall about one month afterwards. A committee, composed equally of Jackson and Berryman delegates, was appointed to investigate the charge of fraud, which, after investigating the whole matter, unanimously reported that the whole proceedings had been fair and square, and that Berryman had received the nomination without fraud. Colonel Jackson refused to acquiesce and appealed to the people on a charge of fraud. But he did not run himself, but, with his friends, brought out Captain C. M. Sutherlin, who was, soon afterwards put upon the " Tadpole " ticket for county clerk, and Colonel W. S. Jackson stumped the county for him. The canvass on the county clerkship was close and very angry. Upon this office the democratic party was divided, the republicans of course, all voting the " Tadpole " ticket. About one thousand democrats bolted the regular nomination for county clerk, and voted for Sutherlin, who was finally elected by the small majority of 30 votes, while the remainder of the " Tadpole " county ticket was overwhelmingly defeated. . The vote upon county offices, in this election was as follows: Democratic candidates are marked with a*:

Representative

In January, 1874, at an adjourned session, the Twenty-seventh general assembly had submitted the question of calling a constitutional convention to the popular vote, at the next general election, November, 1874, and it had been carried by the small majority of 283 votes. The election for delegates to the convention was fixed for the 26th of January, 1875, and the convention was appointed to meet in Jefierson City, May 5, 1875. The canvass in Saline was warm and bitter. Two delegates were to be elected from this senatorial district, consisting of Saline, Lafayette, and Pettis counties. A democratic convention was called to meet in Brownsville, to nominate regular democratic candidates for delegates to the convention. Delegates to the nominating convention, at Brownsville, were regularly appointed by Lafayette and Pettis counties, who met at Brownsville on the appointed day. But, by some mistake, mismanagement, or, as it was claimed, by some pre-arranged " hocus pocus " of the Saline committee, no delegates from Saline were appointed, or met at Brownsville. The Brownsville convention, after waiting one day for the Saline delegation, proceeded to make nominations without them. A. Y. Hull, of Pettis county, and H. C. Wallace, of Lafayette, were nominated. It was then published over Saline, that the Brownsville convention had treated Saline county with indignity, and contempt - had given her no chance to appear in the convention, and calling upon the citizens of Saline to vindicate their county pride and honor by nominating one of her own men, by a primary election, against A. Y. Hull, of Pettis. Taking the charge against the Brownsville convention as true, the people of Saline almost went wild with indignation. A primary election was held a short time before the -election, and Hon. Wm. Letcher was almost unanimously nominated, every precinct in the county voting for him, except Marshall, which voted for Sam'l Boyd, Esq. At the election, January 26, 1875, only about 400 votes were cast for Hull and Wallace in Saline, the remainder all being cast for Letcher and Wallace, who were elected, and Mr. Hull, one of regular democratic nominees, was defeated.

In the great presidential election of 1876, Tilden and Hendricks received, in Saline county, 3,938 votes, and Hayes and Wheeler, 1,728 votes. Candidates for state offices about the same.

For county officers, in this year, N. B. Ross, for surveyor; J. H. Irvine, for assessor; A. McAlister, for coroner; L. W. Scott, for public administrator; E. V. Garnett for circuit clerk, and J. M. Brown, for. probate judge, had no opposition.

For county clerk, to fill the unexpired term of Capt. C. M. Sutherlin, who had resigned, the canvass was again hot and exciting. Col. W. S. Jackson, who had been deputy for Capt. Sutherlin, now came out for the office, and, at a primary election held, received the democratic nomination in spite of very determined opposition. After the nomination this opposi- tion, composed of some democrats who could not, and would not condone Col. Jackson's bolt and support of part of the Tadpole ticket, two years before, combined, of course, with the republican party. In the short canvass following, people were excited and wound up to the highest pitch. Many personal collisions occurred. In a published circular, the opposition charged Col. Jackson directly with robbing and thieving during the war, giving time, dates and affidavits. But in vain. He triumphed over all his enemies, was elected to fill the vacancy, and two years after was elected for the full term, which he was filling when he died. In 1876, the opposition put forward Oapt. Robt. Ruxton as his opponent. The vote was as follows :

In 1878, the republicans being in an apparently hopeless minority, made no regular nominations in Saline county. There was a heated controversy over the democratic nominations, especially over the nomination for county clerk, as usual. Col. Wm. S. Jackson was again a candidate for county clerk, opposed by Mr. Peyton Brown of Miami township. The result was the nomination and election of the following officials: Wm. S. Jackson, county clerk ; Geo. Lankford, circuit clerk ; Sam'l Davis, representative; M. C Sandidge, recorder; John R. Cason, sheriff; Wm. M. Walker, collector; I. P. Martin, treasurer; D. D. Duggins, county attorney; Nicholas Smith, and B. G. Orear, county justices; and Jno. W. Sparks, presiding county justice; by a democratic vote of about 4,000.

In the canvass of 1880, which was also presidential and state election, three county tickets were in the field. The democrats, somewhat dissatisfied with the workings of primary elections, determined to once more call a county convention. They did so, resulting in the following nominations for county officers: For representatives, Robt. Frazer, 1st district; V. C. Yantis, 2d district. County Judges: 1st district, James Davis; 2d district, Nicholas Smith ; probate judge, James Cooney; treasurer, J. P. Martin; collector, Wm. M. Walker; public administrator, L. W. Scott ; sheriff, John R. Cason; and county attorney, D. D. Duggins. The greenbackers and the republicans also held conventions, and nominated full county tickets, except for one office, upon which they united. Just before the election, the death of the county clerk. Colonel W. S. Jackson, necessitated a new democratic convention to nominate his successor, which resulted in the nomination of Robert J. McMahan. At the November election, 1880, the entire democratic county ticket was elected, but by a decreased vote and decreased majorities, as compared with the election of 1878-

The appointment of the new registers was obtained by Mr. R. B. Thorp, member of the liberal republican committee, and Mr. R. S. Sandidge, editor of the Progress ney/spaper, who made a trip to Sedalia and held a long interview with Col. Ritter, the new supervisor. At this interview Hon. Geo. R. Smith-, then a leading liberal republican, was present. Upon hearing the representation made by the Saline men, Mr. Smith said to Ritter: " O, yes. Colonel, give them a liberal registration. Let the intelligent, liberal people over there have a voice." This was done and Messrs. Sandidge and Thorpe bore to Marshall great and joyful news to the opponents of the radical republicans.

Incidents Of The Rbc0N8Tbucti0N Period

May 29, 1866, Gen. Frank P. Blair, elected in- 1860 as the first republican congressman from Missouri, afterward colonel of the first regiment of Union volunteers from this state, major-general in the Federal army, and commander of one of Sherman's most important army corps, addressed the people of Saline county, in the public square at Marshall, in the interest of the conservative or " Andrew Johnson " party, as it was called. A large crowd was present upon the occasion. Hon. W. H. Letcher and others were upon the stand, which had been erected on the north side of the public square.

A number of ex-militiamen, who were radical republicans, were in attendance, and as they were not in sympathy with the speaker, and even considered him " a traitor to the republican party and to his country," and moreover, being unduly excited and stimulated generally, they began to interrupt him, and make other demonstrations calculated to disorganize the meeting. One or two called out, "That's a d - d lie!" "You're a liar!" and other violent expressions were used. Gen. Blair himself addressed the turbulent and hostile crowd that were sitting and standing in the rear of the main audience on an embankment thrown up from the court house excavation, and asked them to keep quiet, and let the meeting go on. The interruptions continuing and growing more violent, the general at last addressed his partisans near him, saying: "Are there not enough young men of you here to make those fellows behave, or else drive them off the ground?" A number of men responded and a charge was made on the disturbers, who were routed and driven from the meeting. One of them, a Mr. Butts, was wounded by a pistol shot in the shoulder. A number of shots were exchanged, but no one else was seriously hurt. It was at first reported that Butts was mortally wounded, but he soon recovered. In a few seconds quiet was restored, and the general went on with his speech.

The majority of the adult males, of the county, were anti-radical in politics ; but as no one could vote unless he was registered, and as no one could be registered, unless he could take the oath prescribed by the Drake constitution, and as but few could do that, there were hundreds of men disfranchised. There was very great dissatisfaction throughout the county. Very many men who had served in the Federal army could not vote; nor could many citizens who had been considered loyal during the war, and persecuted therefor by the confederates.

In 1867, a number of men living in the county and disfranchised, avowed their purpose of attending the meeting of the board of registration and breaking up the session, if they were not permitted to register. The sherifi of the county, J. W. Wall, learned of their intention some days before the meeting, and quietly detailed a number of citizens who were radicals to be on hand, ready to repulse any attack that might be made upon the board. Arms had been sent up from Jefferson City and concealed in the court house, where the radicals repaired and waited for the occasion to use them.

A few disfranchised persons did gather at the court house, ex-Federals and ex-Confederates, and avowed their intention of going up stairs into the room where the board was in session. The sheriff met them at the head of the stairs, drawing his revolver, and commanded them to go back. Upon their refusal he called out to his men to " fall in." The latter sprang to their guns. The disfranchised men then retirejl, indignant, but discomfited.

History From 1865 To 1870

In July, 1865, Capt. Grain's company of militia, which had been stationed at Marshall, was disbanded, and the men, who were from this county, returned to their homes. Just at this time the county was filled with horse-thieves and robbers of every sort, and cases of robbery and thieving were quite common.

The Confederate soldiers from the far south now began to return home. They came singly, in squads, and by companies, as they could. A Col. Thompson, with a considerable company from north Missouri, camped near Marshall, with a hundred head of Indian ponies from Texas, in the latter part of July.

To the returning Confederates, and to some of the recently discharged militia, was attributed the most of the stealing and plundering. The sad ending of the Confederate ' cause had demoralized many of the boys in gray, who were down in Louisiana and Arkansas, very seriously, and it is said -they would steal or take anything in the way of a four-footed beast that would carry them back to their home in old Missouri. Even the property of their honored and honorable old leader, " Old Pap Price," was not secure. Shortly before he started from Shreveport for Texas and Mexico, Gen. Price had two pairs of v/hite mules and a wagon, about all the property he possessed, and with these he calculated to make the trip. The night before he started, some of the disbanded troops stole his mules, leaving the general afoot. The next morning he assembled his soldiers, and made them a speech about his mules, saying to them that he had been with them since the opening of the war, sharing their dangers and trials; that he was now an old man, and poor; that he could not walk to Texas, and they must help him^ find his mules. The "boys" could not resist this appeal, and the mules were found hid in a cane-brake, and restored to the kind-hearted but brave old warrior, . Some of the ex-militia were equally eager to possess themselves of good horses as their late enemies.

During the summer and fall of 1865, many families who had left the county during the war, and had been residents of other states, returned to their old homes.

August 28, Col. W. A. Wilson, long a prominent citizen of the county, and recognized as the leader of the Federal element of the county, died at the Missouri House, in Marshall.

April 2, 1866, a mass meeting of the citizens of the county who favored President Johnson's policy of reconstruction was held at Marshall. Geo. W. Baker presided. Speeches were made by Hon. W. H. Letcher, Col. J. T. 5rice, and others, and letters were read from Col. John F. Phillips and Col. W. F. Switzler, sympathizing with the objects of the meeting.

The number of crimes against property in the county not decreasing, but seeming to be on the increase, and there being a great many lawless persons in the county, whom the authorities seemed unable to control and subdue, the law-abiding, well-disposed citizens of the county, of all parties, ex-Confederates and ex- Federals, met, pursuant to call, . in the M. E. Church, at Marshall, April 21, to consider the situation. Benj. Chase was chairman of the meeting. An association was formed called the " Honest Men's League," having for its purpose the suppression of crime and lawlessness. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the presence of troops in the county, "no matter under what pretext," would be productive of no good; that an executive committee of five citizens be appointed to take measures to co-operate with the authorities to suppress and repress all lawlessness in the county, and bring to swift and severe punishment all offenders against justice and law ; and that other committees auxiliary to this should be formed in all other townships in the county. Col. J. T. Price, Hon. John W. Bryant, Judge Landon, Messrs. Trigg, Vance, Brown, and Corbin spoke in favor of the resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.

Branches of the Honest Men's League were organized at Arrow Rock, Miami, Brownsville, Cambridge, and Grand Pass. About the first of May, some fifteen or twenty members of the Arrow Rock branch, accompanied Deputy Sheriff F. M. Sappington on an expedition to a farm three miles from town, for the purpose of breaking up a band of criminals quartered there. The house was surrounded, and an attack made upon it, but the scoundrels escaped. The leader, one James Marshall, fired several shots as he ran from the house and away. Ed. Marshall, Cyrus James, and Marion Claybrook, were the names of his comrades, all of whom followed their leader, and in the darkness got safely away. A woman, who was in the house, received a buckshot in her arm, from the attacking party, and one of the members of the gang was badly wounded. In this attack on the outlaws, Capt. Geo. Bingham, an ex-Federal, and Col. W. S. Jackson, an ex-Confederate, rode side by side. Col. Price, of Arrow Rock, directed the movements.

A day or two after the occurrence above narrated, the Jim Marshall gang rode up to the residence of a Mr. Goode, in Cooper county, and killed Mr. Jacob Goode and his son Jerry. A little son, a boy twelve years of age, named Finis, seized a gun, and as the murderers were retreating, fired at them and shot one dead. Papers found on his body showed that his name was Marion Claybrook, and that he formerly belonged to the 10th Missouri Confederate cavalry. ,

In August of this year, the Saline county southern relief society was organized, with Mrs. W. B. Sappington as president, Mrs. W. O. Maupin and Mrs. J. W. Bryant, of Marshall, Mrs. Henry Boyer, of Miami, and Mrs. Joseph Fields, of Miami, as vice-presidents, and Miss MoUie Fisher, of Arrow Rock, as secretary. The object of the society was to relieve the distress and suffering among the families of southern soldiers in this county first, and next to aid the suffering people of the far south generally. Fairs, concerts, and other entertainments were given at Marshall and Arrow Rock, and other means taken to raise funds to carry out the purpose of the society. About $1,412 was raised, of which $1,061.12 was expended in this county; the rest was sent to the far south.

The county jail at Marshall was not in very good condition, as in the fall of this year a one-legged man, imprisoned for counterfeiting, made his escape therefrom one night, being followed soon after by two colored boys. Thereafter, until the new jail was constructed, dangerous or important criminals were sent to Lexington for safe keeping.

In December, 1866, Gov: Fletcher called out thirty-four companies of the militia, as he said to put down the bushwhackers and guerrillas " who were still engaged in their nefarious calling of murdering and robbing the peaceful citizens of this state." Mr. J. H. McAlister was appointed enrolling oifEcer for this county, and the mililia were ordered to meet him at stated times in several townships. The governor shortly after proclaimed martial law in Lafayette county, and there was great disorder in that county for some time.

In March, 1867, a spirit of lawlessness pervaded Miami township, and many serious outrages were committed. About the middle of the month some men, said to be ex-militiamen " from the bottom," three of whom were named Elson, visited Miami and for a time held undisputed sway in the town.- They were intoxicated and their conduct was very violent. They began firing on some colored men, one of whom ran and took refuge in the hotel. The outlaws followed him and began firing through the windows of the hotel indiscriminately among the inmates. Some of the citizens of the place caught up such weapons as they could lay hands on and commenced to repel the assaults of the ruffians. In the melee Joseph Elson was killed by a shot fired by Mr. J. A. Saufley and another member of the raiders was killed. The Elsons had no good feeling towards the people of Miami, as they alleged that a relative of theirs had been murdered during the war by Confederates through the connivance of the -citizens of that place.

But the killing of one of their number did not deter the " men from the bottom" from repeating their visits to Miami and continuing their depredations. The Marshall Progress of April 5, 1867, contained the following: * * * " Naturally enough, and as all good citizens, regardless of past political affiliations, now well know, a confederation in villainy and public plunder has been formed between some of Missouri's worst characters of bushwhacking infamy, and miscreants who, during, the late war, were pretended adherents of the Federal cause. They are a class of fellows whose chief delight is to fiendishly prey upon orderly society. Hyena-like, in their fits of intoxication they perambulate the streets of Miami, yelping sounds which more properly belong to the wild beast of the forest. Up to the recent difficulty in that town, when, on the Christian Sabbath, they commenced an inh uman assault upon some unoffending and defenseless negroes, they had become intolerable. Their outrages and insults to society were almost a daily occurrence, Sunday not excepted. The commercial interests of the town are nearly ruined. The honest farmer goes elsewhere to do his trading. He shuns the place, and will not go there if he can avoid it. If found in the town he, in common with the citizens of the place, is liable to personal insult and injury from these ruffians, who congregate there almost daily from the bottom. * * * The negroes have become especially obnoxious to these scoundrels, who visit their cabins after night, rob, insult, and spread terror among colored families generally. On last Wednesday night some negro families near Miami were robbed, and the next night a colored man, who had in the meantime sworn out a writ for the arrest of two of this clai* whom he identified, was visited and shot. The same two men, one a reconstructed bushwhacker, who was with Quantrell at Lawrence, and the other a discharged militiaman, are now somewhere in the Miami bottom, and the writ for their arrest is in Constable Audsley's pocket. Let the people of Miami township place their writs in the hands of Sheriff Wall and they will be served."

The Saline county agricultural and mechanical association held its fifth annual fair at Miami, October 15-20, 1867. During the progress of the fair a large United States flag, which was floating over the grounds, was torn down in the night by some rantankerous idiot, and carried away. The circumstance was greatly regretted by all sensible people in attendance, and earnest efforts were made to discover the perpetrators. The officers of the association passed the following preamble and resolutions by a unanimous vote:

Whereas, This community, and especially the stockholders and directors of this association, have received at the hands of some irresponsible vagabonds and interested villains in popular commotion and civil strife, a deep wound and unmitigated insult in their action last night in tearing down the flag of our association and of our country ; therefore be it

Resolved, That in their action they have reflected the sentiments of not a single property-holder or gentleman in our county, and have inflicted an irreparable wound upon the feelings of every member of this board.

Resolved, That we will use all diligence in ferreting out the perpetrators of this most wanton and disgraceful act, and having them properly punished as the law may direct, and as further penalty for their insult and offense to us, if they are discovered, we will exclude them from these grounds for all time to come.

Notwithstanding all this, news of the affair got abroad, and Saline county enjoyed the unenviable notoriety for a time and in certain foreign circles of being a county where the United States flag was not permitted to wave.

The court house which took the place of the one destroyed during the war, and which was burned in the early spring of 1881, was finished in the month of December, 1867. It had been begun in 1866. Buckner & Walker were the contractors. Its cost was about $40,000.

For some years after the close of the war, particularly in the year 1867, various railroad projects were proposed to the people of the county. Some of these were tangible, others impracticable, and a few impossible, but all received attention. There were proposed lines from every important city in the country to every other city, all to cross Saline county in every direction, with Marshall as the focus of many of them. If all these had been completed, a map of the county would have resembled a sketch of a garden spider's web. One of these proposed railroads was given the lengthy title of the " Chicago, Marshall, Sedalia, Fort Scott and Galveston railroad."

In the spring of 1867, numerous bank robberies in this part of the state caused some alarm in Saline county, and at public meetings, held at Marshall and Miami, companies were organized, having for an object the protection of property from thieves, robbers, and depredators of every sort. The best men of the county were members of these organizations.

The year 1868, was distinguished from other years in the history of the county, by reason of its being the first presidential year in the history of the county after the war, in which the people took an active interest. Horatio Seymour, of New York, and Gen. F. P. Blair, of Missouri, were the democratic candidates, respectively, for president and vice-president; and Gen. U. S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax, the nominees of the republican party. Although there was a large majority of the adult male citizens of the county in favor of the democratic candidates, a great many of them were not allowed to vote, by the terms of the Drake constitution, and the republicans, having the power in their own hands, so directed matters that an easy victory was won by them.

many large meetings in this county, in aid of their principles and candidates. A meeting at Miami, July 25, was addressed by Hon. Henry Clay Dean, of Iowa, and Gen James Shields, democratic candidate that year for congress, " the hero of Cherubusco," and " the only man that ever whipped Stonewall Jackson;" one at Cambridge, August 29, was addressed by Gen. Shields, Nat. Claiborne, and N. J. Colman; one at Marshall, August 26, by Gen. Shields and the local orators. The republican meetings had for orators : Mr. Johnson, candidate for attorney-general; Judge Walker, of Lexington; Mr. Bierbower, the editor of the Marshall Banner, and others.

Bacon Montgomery was the superintendent of registration for this district. Judge F. M. Fulkerson, Matthew Vandyke, and, Frederick Moor constituted the board of registrars for this county. The most rigid requirements were exacted of those presenting themselves for registration. There was great dissatisfaction on the part of the democrats at the action of the board. It was claimed that this action was wholly proscriptive, unjust, oppressive and even illegal. In Malta Bend precinct, for example, Wm. A. Jones, a Union man, never had any sympathy with the rebellion, but did have sympathy for some rebellious relatives in Virginia, was rejected. J. L. Pierce was rejected because he said he did not rejoice over victories on either side. A. F. Brown was rejected because he thought the emancipation proclamation should not have been issued when it was. Patrick Mitchell, a Union man all through the war, was rejected because he associated and " kept company " with his neighbors who had been southern sympathizers. Jacob Miller, a strong Union man, who had suffered at the hands of the rebels for his loyalty, was rejected because he preferred the old constitution of Missouri to the new one. G. W. Washburne, W. R. Beaman, Jno. S. Prunty, David Small, J. H. Rockwell and others, who took no part whatever on the side of the rebellion, but, on the contrary, had given material aid to the Union cause, were rejected because they had felt sympathy for their rebel relatives, in Tennessee and Virginia. Many more of such instances of rejection occurred in the other precincts of the county.

The republicans justified the action of their officials, that it was in accordance |with the letter and spirit of the new constitution, and the laws thereunder, which were founded on justice and correct principles of government. One of their leaders said: "As it was unjust and wrong to show favors to rebels and their sympathizers, during the war, so it is unjust and wrong to grant them favors now." The use of the new court house was refused, by the republican county authorities, to Gen. Shields,, in which to make a democratic speech, although they always used it for party meetings.

near Cambridge, and one lynching followed. Joseph Tillman, a desperado, was assassinated the night after Christmas, near New Frankfort. The next week another hard character named Carlisle, shot and killed Chas. Crytel, a German shoemaker, in a saloon at Cambridge, for a refusal to drink. Carlisle was arrested, and Mr. Epperson, the constable, started to Marshall with him, but on the way an angry mob took the prisoner from the officer's hands and either hung or drowned him.

Railroad projects still engaged the attention of the people. January 6, a meeting at Marshall was attended and addressed by the representatives of four proposed railroads : The Keokuk and Fort Scott ; the Booneville and Arrow Rock ; the Columbia, Rocheport and Marshall, and the Louisiana and Missouri river.

History From 1870 To 1881

In January, .1870, the county court began to take steps for the erection of a new jail. For some time the old one had been very insecure, and prisoners were constantly escaping.

The assessor's estimate of the value of property in the county for the year 1870 was $9,145,927, of which $6,840,105 was real estate. In 1869, the total value was $8,604,623. The whole number of children of school age in the county in the latter year was 7,721 ; the number of public schools, 68 ; of school houses, 62. The value of the latter was $36,000.

About the 1st of March, Daniel Wheeler was assassinated at Miami by some one unknown. He was a respected citizen, and lately from the north. Patrick Guthrie, a young man living in the place, was arrested, charged with the offense, but eventually acquitted.

May 8. - Gen. Robert Wilson, ex-United States senator, and a prominent citizen of Missouri for many years, died at the residence of his nephew, Capt. Ben. H. Wilson, near Marshall.

June 3. - The corner-stone of the present Catholic Church at Marshall was laid. Father (now bishop) Ryan, of St. Louis, delivered the address.

In this year the democrats of the county adopted what was known as the " passive policy." That is, they nominated no tickets of their own, but voted for the candidates of the liberal republicans, as against the radical republicans. The particulars of this contest are detailed elsewhere.

July 9. - Mr. Burgess was shot by Mr. Cunningham near Sulphur Springs, with Stephen Neil as accomplice. Cunningham and Neil were arrested, released on bail, and left the country. Mr. Burgess recovered

August 3. - The dead body, of John O'Conner was found near Frankfort. Verdict of coroner's jury was that death resulted from exposure to the sun, the deceased being unwell when put off the steamer Mountaineer.

September 20. - A negro. West Hawkins, under arrest for attempted rape of a white woman, was taken from jail and hanged by a mob. November 9. - The county election resulted in a victory for the democrats and liberal republicans, as detailed elsewhere. ^November 18. - Another negro was hanged by a mob, for attempted rape of a white girl, near Miami. So closed a year long to be remembered by the people of Saline.

March 2. - The general assembly passed an act abolishing the Saline county court of common pleas, and the grand jurors, meeting on this day, learned that their actions would be null and void. The business of this court was transferred to the circuit court. On same night, Henry Wilson shot and killed a saloon-keeper named H. C. Collins. Wilson fled in the darkness, reached the river, secured a skift" and was rowing down the river, when he was captured at the bridge on the road from Marshall to Booneville. - He was brought back, tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was afterward pardoned.

March 18. - Mrs. Joseph Furr and her nine-year-old son, were drowned while crossing the creek near Arrow Rock. There was much talk, about this time, of re-opening the old Spanish silver mines on Blackwater, and of ghosts and other strange sights having been seen in the vicinity. Both silver and ghosts disappeared together. The bachelor's club created much diversion, and wasted much time in commenting of love in the abstract. On April 15 and 17, the wind blew a perfect gale, upsetting and unroofing houses. The ferry boat at Miami was torn from its moorings, and carried some distance down stream, where it landed on a sandbar.

August 9. - Occurred the sale at auction, of some twenty-five thousand dollars in county bonds, to pay off indebtedness. They were purchased at an average price of 96^ per cent, by bank of Missouri, at Arrow Rock, and Messrs. Dunnica, Cardell & Montague, conjointly.

November 10. - The trial of Patrick Guthrie for the murder of Daniel Wheeler, created much excitement, and resulted in the acquittal of Guthrie. The last occurrence of note for this year, was the accidental shooting of Mr. Samuel Boyd, while passing near a riotous crowd. Mr. Boyd soon recovered.

Early in this year, infamous lies, about the killing of negroes in this county by a Ku-klux klan, were circulated throughout the papers of the state. The stories were utterly without foundation, but created a bad reputation for us abroad. A deal of trouble grew out of arrests of prominent citizens, by deputy U. S. Marshal Frankel, for alleged irregularity in the sale of leaf tobacco, and several parties were fined.

June 1. - The mass convention with respect to the nominees of the Cincinnati convention, was the most harmonious for years, and infused new life into the democracy.

July 4. - George Weker was found lying in a ditch near Marshall, covered with blood from thirteen wounds inflicted with a knife. Suspicion pointed to one John Carlisle. He was arrested, tried, and the jury failed to agree. A second trial resulted in his conviction of murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to be hanged on the 22d of July, 1873. On the 1st day of July, 1873, he effected his escape from jail.

During this month, the decision of the supreme court, making void the $400,000 in L. & M. R. R. R. bonds, creating much demonstration and rejoicing throughout the county. September 9th, the democrats and liberals held a convention and nominated a joint ticket, which was elected by a large majority at the ensuing election. The year 1872 was memorable in the political annals of the county from the fact that it was the first year in which the democratic candidate for president carried the county since 1836. At the November election the vote stood:

After having been urged many times by the grand juries of the county to build a new jail, the county court, in May of this year, made an appropriation of $20,000 to be used in this way.

The panic of this year was severely felt in the county, as shown by the suspension of the Saline county bank, of Marshall, and the Miami bank.

Early in this year an effort was made to organize a new county, to be called Brown county, out of Saline, Pettis, Johnson and Lafayette ; a bill to this effect was introduced in the legislature, but was defeated.

In March it was discovered that John T. Carlisle, the escaped murderer, was then a convict in the state penitentiary, whither he had been sent from Laclede county, for grand larceny, under the name of Clark Anderson.

On March 20th, occurred the death of Dr. J. A. Gaines, aged 51. Dr. Gaines was an old and highly esteemed citizen of the county, and much lamented in his death.

May 2. - In the afternoon of this day, a whirlwind or cyclone passed over the county, causing great damage to property, and some loss of life. A negro cabin containing three children was struck by lightning, and burned, together with its inmates. A perfect deluge of rain followed, and several parties were drowned while attempting to ford streams.

At the June term of court, John T. Carlisle was brought from the penitentiary, and re-sentenced by Judge Wood, to be hung on the 24th day of July, the prisoner showing no emotion during the sentence. Carlisle's attorneys took exceptions to certain rulings of the judge, and appealed to the supreme court. The court sustaining the rulings of Judge Wood, Governor Woodson was asked to commute his sentence, but refused to interfere. Thus it happened that Carlisle was the victim of the first criminal execution in Saline county. By order of the court the execution was performed in the old jail building, a trap door being cut in the floor and the rope tied to a beam overhead. About thirty persons witnessed the execution, which was superintended by Sheriff F. M. Sappington. The prisoner was composed and resigned to death, and after a short religious service by Father Murphy, the trap was sprung and the soul of Carlisle was sent to eternity.

1875. September 27th, began the trial of August Houth, for the murder of Henry T. Schmidt, the details of which are given elsewhere; and following this, on the loth of November, began the trial of Levi Hagan, for complicity in the Faber and Dawson murder, in 1864, for which a special term of court was called. In November, the indexing case of Saline county against B. H. Wilson, was decided by the supreme court, in favor of the plaintiff. The county sued to recover money overpaid to Wilson, for indexing the circuit court records. The case was sent to Cooper county, on a change of venue, where the plaintiff obtained a judgment for $1,885.13. Wilson appealed, and the supreme court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court. In December, the trial of Thomas B. Fulkerson, on the same charge as Levi Hagan, mentioned elsewhere, was held at Warrensburg ; and the prisoner was discharged, the state entering a nol -pros. During this year, the new jail was completed, and one long discussed question was settled.

The Centennial almanac, published by the newspapers of the county, contained the shipments of Saline county, for 1875, and revealed the fact that Saline needed, and could support a railroad, and this almanac was no small factor in its construction. At the March term of court, Robert Hardin was convicted of murder in the second degree, in the killing of Thomas Cambell, and condemned to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. In April, a strong call was made upon W. H. Letcher to become a candidate for attorney general. The centennial celebration held in Marshall, on the 4th of July, was of interest, Mr. James Cooney being the orator, and the exercises concluding with the firing of cannon and a gorgeous display of fireworks. George N. Colbert, once judge of the probate court, died on the 1st of October. Memorial exercises for him were held by the Masons, njembers of the bar, and the Baptist Sunday-school of Marshall.

The election this year was a warm contest, much being said about the reduction of salaries for officials. The official returns of the vote of Saline county, showed a vote of 3,942 for Tilden, against 1,728 for Hayes. For governor, Phelps received 3,898 against 1,760 for Finklenburg.

On the night of the 2Jst of December, an extraordinarily large and brilliant meteor passed over this county, moving toward the northeast, and eclipsing the moon and stars in brightness. Stephen Smith and E. G. Stewart, two well-known citizens, died in December. The Ditzler- Sweeney debate at Malta Bend closed the events of the year.

On Wednesday evening the 7tii of March, there came into Marshall the van-guard of the first railroad to be built in Saline county. Mr, Blackstone, the president of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, together with the chief engineer, and Mr. Mitchell, had been surveying the route, and learning the temper of the people on the line of the road between Mexico and Kansas City, in regard to subscriptions toward building the road. A meeting of citizens and an informal talk was held in the office of Mr. Boyd. In reply to some incredulous remarks, Mr. Mitchell said, if the communities along the line of the road, would raise the amount asked by the company, that he would give his individual bond forfeiting fifty thousand dollars in the event his company did not build the road within two years. The railroad officials departed next day; but Saline county had been disappointed in railroad schemes so often, that she preferred to w^alk by sight rather than by faith ; and thus her skepticism drowned any enthusiasm.

One John Bartlett was arrested for attempted rape upon Mrs. Carrie Hinton, and his preliminary examination began in Marshall, on the 7th of May. While the examination was in progress, a Mr. Parks, a brother of Mrs. Hinton, came in and fired at the prisoner. The prisoner was furnished with a pistol, by his father, and surrounded by his relatives, all armed, stood ready to defend his life. By the prompt action of the officers. Parks was disarmed, and quiet restored without bloodshed. Bartlett was committed to jail in default of ^800 bail, and at the ensuing term of court was tried and acquitted.

Rats were numerous in the houses and fields all over the county, some 110 rats having been plowed up in breaking an acre of land. Meetings were held in several townships, and farmers were urged to concerted action in poisoning them before the coming of the new wheat crop.

The Missouri river was higher this year than it had been since 1844. In June all the low table-lands, lying between Laynesville and Miami, were submerged.

At St. Louis, March 6, 1878, a contract was completed with the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company for the building of that railroad through Saline county. P. H. Rea and others represented the county.

A meeting of the veterans of the Mexican war was held at Marshall, March 18th. There were present W. W. Arnett, John L. Smith, C. H. Parker, Thomas S. Sibley, Daniel AUaway, Campbell Gilmer, W. N. Taylor, J. A. Lewis, Andrew Campbell, John B. Brown, Thomas J. Edwards, N. H. 'Lewis.

Tuesday night, March 26, "Dog Row," the west side of the public square, Marshall, was nearly destroyed by fire. The first building on the north end of the row was the first house erected in Marshall, by Henry Simmons, in 1836. One near by, of logs, was built by Jerry Odell, in 1837.

In the latter part of the month of June, a mob of white men shot and killed a negro boy named Philip Johnson, only fourteen years old, who was under arrest for striking a white boy on the head with a stone. Jerry Goodwin, a landlord of the place, and others were afterward arrested for being concerned in the mob, but upon examination were discharged.

In the early part of October, the Chicago & Alton railroad was completed to Marshall, the first railroad to reach the place. A grand banquet was given the railroad officers and employes by the citizens ; even the track-layers were feasted at Jackson's hotel, and treated to forty gallons of lager beer by Mr. McGinniss, proprietor of the " Senate " saloon. Speeches were made and fireworks went up in the evening, amid the scream of locomotive whistles, the ringing of bells, and the cheers of the citizens. On the 7th of November, the new road met with its first accident. A brakeman named Gus Garst was run over by the cars at the Marshall depot, and killed.

For some years the county had been infested with Norway rats to the extent that they had become a plague. The representatives from this county secured the passage of a bill through the legislature oifering a bounty on every rat killed. In the spring of 1878, it was announced that the rats had nearly all disappeared from the county.