Peggy: The best account of the capture of the recruits at Blackwater is Leslie Anders, "The Blackwater Incident," Missouri Historical Review, Vol 88, No. 4 (July 1994): 416-429. I recommend it to you.

Also, the following little booklet contains a complete roster of all prisoners taken at Blackwater: Joanne Chiles Eakin, Battle at Blackwater River: Milford, Johnson County, Missouri, on December 19, 1861 (Independence, MO: Joanne Eakin, 1995).

If copies of your transcription of the diary are for sale, or should become availiable, I would like to purchase a copy.

Regards,
Jim McGhee