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Okay, I will try to make it clear as mud, if you get that pun!

I do not know what unit Buster's BN may have morphed with... I just know that a couple of men in the unit show as captured during the raid on Oct 10. But this doesn't necessarily mean they were with Buster I guess, so I may be jumping the gun a little now that I look more. It said Buster's BN was dismounted in June of 64. So I guess its just best to state it as a possibility. Thanks for keeping the questions up and making me dig deeper.

As to WEbb's Co, there are no records of it officially but it is mentioned a few times in OR's and in local diary, letters etc. He was more or less a leader of a group of "Confederates" that used the charge to catch deserters and return them, but usually they just dispatched them themselves. I have at least 2 accounts of men killed by them. The rest of the time I think they just preyed on the innocent.

As to Crawford's men I have some info on men captured, wounded during the raid. His letters include one written just after the raid describing the hardship to his wife. Here is a small list of what I have, I would have to puruse his other companies, Co B is the one I have the most info on.

Virgil Shaw Co B KIA
John F Cloud Co B Capt Wesport
Eli Ripple Co B Capt Newtonia
Charles Moore Co B WIA

I also have in Co H Monroe's the following

William Forsythe KIA Pilot KNob
Abraham Tull WIA and capt ??
Wm WItham WIA and Capt Pilot Knob
John Curtis WIA Mine Creek
Matt House Capt Union Co MO

DO you have any info on Crawford's men? Or would you like me to see what I can provide in the way of men who were lost on the raid in one form or another?

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