My grandfather received a pension for service in the Civil War in 1900. He claimed he had entered the Union Army under the alias of Joseph E.C. Defries. In his efforts to obtain the pension, he obtained affidavits stating that he, Charles Crittenden Coleman, and Defries were one and the same. In one of the affidavits, a man by the name of Calvin Norman stated he was with him in Co. E, 51st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, and stated that Coleman/Defries remineded him of a skirmish happened near Pilot Knob concerning somesome prisoners of war that they were taking to Leavenworth. The person in charge was named August Booty, or Boody. This must have taken place between April and August in 1865. Is there any record of such a skirmish? Ellen Coleman Forrest