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Hello,

Taking a clue from the gentleman who posted that there is a Randolph County in Missouri, I emailed Jim McGhee, THE expert on Missouri Confederates who posts often on the Missouri Message Board and he nailed the man in question. As follows:

>>>>Randolph County was in the 3rd Division. Huntsville is in Randolph Co. There was a Capt E. T. Owens that commanded a MSG company in the 1st Cav Regt, 3rd Division. Perhaps this is the Thomas Owens referred to in the article? I have checked the Missouri captains and find no Thomas Owens in a Missouri Confederate unit.

Thus, it appears to me that Capt. E. T. Owens is the only officer from Randolph Co. that fits the clues provided in the notice, and that he is the one the ladies made a flag for at the beginning of the war.>>>>>

So thanks to Jim's research this flag was for Owens' company of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard.

For those that do not know how the MSG organized, they did so by divisions. Each division was comprised of the men and units of several counties. There were at least 8 divisions. Each division could have its own cavalry and infantry regiments so there was not only the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Third Division, but perhaps the 8th Division had its own 1st Cavalry Regiment as well. So you have to be careful with MSG nomenclature.

Owens, apparently, only served in the MSG and did not go into Confederate service when many MSG units did so in 1862.

Thanks Jim for the help.

Greg Biggs

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