I have never seen this document that Britton claims and no one else claim to have seen it either. In the process of villifing the Missouri Southern Partisons with all kinds of evil deeds, I would think that this link with the Confederate Government would have been much published thru out the nation at the time of his death. Authors then, since and today who want to sell there works within the main stream need to meet certain "exceptable standards" of union bias. Which is to say that the excesses taken by Missouri Partisans from mid 1863 until the end of the war are to be veiwed as happening all during the war, not just the last 20 months. This allows the lowly jayhawk, red leg and Mo State Militias the freedom to justify there action from start to finish. Any attempt to challenge the established authority in "any" society will be met with the same responce. Some win, some lose but there will always be those that will try again. Neil Block Randolph Co., Mo