Here is some more information our researchers at the Bloody Bill Anderson Mystery group have discovered about the ambush and the items that were found afterward:

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The Civil War on the Border...
By Wiley Britton
Published by G. P. Putnam's sons, 1899
Item notes: v.2
Original from the University of California
Digitized Mar 17, 2008
465 pages

"Among
other things found on the person of the dead guerilla
chief was a commission as colonel, signed by Jefferson
Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy. "

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~Jay~