Bruce; look at the SOS files below and you can get a feel for what transpired:

1. Saline County Jackson Guards
http://www.sos.mo.gov/TIF2PDFConsumer/DispPDF.aspx?fTiff=/archives/AdjutantGeneral/Civil_War/ServiceCards/s737/1705.tif&Fln=S409694.pdf

2. MSG to CSA card with report of transfer to Col W.P. Johnson specifically for recruiting some time after May 15 1862.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/TIF2PDFConsumer/DispPDF.aspx?fTiff=/archives/AdjutantGeneral/Civil_War/ServiceCards/s737/1708.tif&Fln=S409697.pdf

3. Repeat of #2 above
http://www.sos.mo.gov/TIF2PDFConsumer/DispPDF.aspx?fTiff=/archives/AdjutantGeneral/Civil_War/ServiceCards/s906/0208.tif&Fln=S253663.pdf

I'm convinced based on the Saline County references that these 3 cards are all the same man and that is how I latched onto the J. Drury Pulliam of Saline County as your fellow. Couple that with the amount of extended family left in Howard and Calloway counties and the fact that there appear to be 2 distinct references to him being on Price's Staff at Elkhorn Tavern with a distinct reference to being sent from Corinth to recruit in '62 I make my case. FWIW. It appears the history reference is likely the 1881 St. Louis Historical Co. publication not a Goodspeed's.

John R.