I would still like to know who David Plunket was who was "murdered by federal forces near Glasgow, MO", according to the notes that Jackson pinned on the clothing of two of the three men that he murdered near Bloomfield, Iowa.
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from "History of Boone County Missouri" page 477
SURRENDER OF JIM JACKSON'S BAND.
Early in June, 1865, the bottom having fallen out of the Rebellion, negotiations were entered upon looking to the surrender of the band of bushwhackers under Capts. Jim Jackson and Win. Stephens, and on Tuesday, the 13th of the month, they were consummated, and, by order of Gov. Fletcher, were permitted to surrender to Capt. H. N. Cook at " Camp Switzler " at the Fair Grounds, near Columbia, on taking the amnesty oath, giving up their horses and arms, each being permitted to leave the State. About 11 o'clock on that day, Capt. Jackson marched in his men under a flag of truce, and the following surrendered: —
1. James Jackson, formerly of Texas, then of Bourbon County, Ky., where he wa» raised.
2. Wm. M. Stephens, Randolph County, Mo.
3. Wm. S. Farley, Giles County, Tenn.
- 4. John West, Mercer County, Mo.; formerly of Audrain County. 6. Barton J. Ramsey, Montgomery County, Mo.
6. Wm. W. Hill (son of Marcus Hill), Boone County, Mo.
7. James R. Mayflold, Nowton County, Mo.
8. Sam'l H. Nunnelly, Bowie County, Texas.
9. Joel Franklin Ramsey, Callaway County, Mo.
10. Sam'l T. Rowland, Boone County, Mo.
11. George Spears, Macon County, Mo.
12. Madison Evans, Boone County, Mo.
13. Wm. McCarty, Chariton (formerly of Marion) County, Mo.
14. Abraham D. Rumnns, Boone County, Mo.
15. John Mullen, Callaway County, Mo. (Irishman.)
16. Wm. W. Martin, Callaway County, Mo.
Capt. Jackson was gaily attired in Confederate gray pants with a black stripe down the legs, and a richly embroidered shirt. The others were dressed in citizens' clothes. Each of them had from two to four revolvers, which together with fifteen horses and saddles, most of them very common, were surrendered to Capt. Cook. Abe Ru- mans wore a cane and a crutch in consequence of a wound in the left thigh received in February. Three of the party, Jackson, Martin, and one other whose name has escaped us, acknowledged to have aided in the robbery of Major Rollins in the Centralia stage on the 29th April. Jackson got his watch and money, but said he had given the watch to one West, who was then in Illinois. Martin exchanged hats with the Major, but said the hat as well as the Major's fine shawl had since been captured by the Federals. The shawl was in the hands of Captain Wood Harris, of the Howard County militia, and was afterwards sent to Rollins. Major
Rollins ascertaining that West owned a forty acre tract of land in Linn County, brought a civil action against him for the value of the watch, obtained a judgment, sold the laud under execution, and recovered the value of the watch.
Jackson and Farley did not live long to enjoy their liberty, for the week after their surrender and release they were caught by citizens of Audrain near Spencerburg, Pike County, and brought to Santa Fe, Monroe County. A squad of Capt. Mitchell's " Tigers," from Mexico, were sent to Santa Fe to ascertain who they were (for their citizen captors did not know them), and they were recognized as Jackson and Farley. A citizen went with the squad who knew Jackson was the man who robbed him and murdered Mark Young. Both of the bushwhackers were killed.
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page 546
Jim Jackson's Fight With The Federals In 1864.
In the late fall or early winter of 1864, " Captain " Jim Jackson, 3 guerrilla leader or bushwhacker, wa.s operating in this section with a small band. With seven of his men he was sitting down to supper in a house about two mile's west of Sturgeon, and within three hundred yards of the county line, when he was attacked by Lieut. Kecbaiigh, of Glasgow, with a force of Federals forty- five in number. Though surprised, the guerrillas were not disconcerted. Accustomed to every sort of fighting, they at once sprang up and made for the door, drawing their revolvers as they rose and firing them as they ran. The house, a little log cabin with one room. was completely surrounded by the Federals, but Jackson and his men cut their way out, and escaped with but the loss of one man badly wounded, and he afterward recovered, and two horses, which were brought into Sturgeon. The Federal loss was two men mortally wounded and five slightly injured. The mortally wounded
men died shortly afterward. The wounded men were all left in charge of Dr. J. S. Locjcridgc. He dressed their wounds, cared for them and stayed with them that night, and sent them to Macon City with the two dead men the next morning.
It was late in the evening when the fight occurred. Jackson and his men escaped into the " Blackfoot country," and Lieut. Kcebaugh went on to Sturgeon. On their way into town the Federals captured Bill Woods and brought him in. He was confined in the court-house, but made an almost miraculous escape. He left behind him his boots and hat, together with almost unmistakable signs that he had fallen into the big well, and this was the general opinion among friends as well as foes. Cold as the weather was, Woods preferred to walkover the prairies bareheaded and barefooted to staying and taking bis chances with the Federals.
Jim Jackson was originally from Texas. As stated by himself, he joined the Texas Rangers at the outbreak of the war, went to Tennessee, killed a comrade, and then deserted and joined a Tennessee cavalry regiment. He served under John Morgan and was on the Ohio raid, in which he was captured. He escaped from Camp Douglas, Chicago, in the early spring of 1864, and made his way into Missouri, joining Holtzclaw's guerrillas in Chariton county. He was soon made Holtzclaw's lieutenant, but afterward had a band of his own. He surrendered to Capt. Cook, at Columbia, in the spring of 1865, but was killed by the Audrain militia soon after, while on his way to Illinois.
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J.Y.