Glenn,

June 14, 1861 is just after the 16th Ill Inf Regt was deployed at critical locations along the railroad between Palmyra and St. Joseph across the breadth of northern MO to guard that vital facility. In some locations unit records tell us the infantrymen arrested people of southern sympathy especially when those residents "mouthed off" to the soldiers or otherwise displayed hostile intentions in the first hours of the troops arrival. Utica is on that railroad, so I assume the same thing happened there. Broadfoot's recently published itenerary of the regiment including Company C failed to mention this incident and I didn't pick it up in the St. Louis papers, local records, or anywhere else. Where did you find it?

Bruce Nichols