?--I didn't make those statements, all I did was transcribe newspaper articles from the era that discussed the issue. Here is the post in question--http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/mocwmb/webbbs_config.pl?read=12039

The deaths of Wilson et al. didn't occur on the Arkansas line, they occured in Franklin County, an area that is now part of the St. Louis metropolitan area. Beaufort was not where the bodies were brought from another region--Beaufort is near the site were the men were actually killed.

Terry Wilson referred to unmarked graves at the Beaufort cemetery, and that local lore holds that the dead were buried there. And while I can't speak for Terry, the five names and the unknown soldier reference he made appear to have came not from information at the Beaufort cemetery, but from the dozens of newspaper reports that erupted in the aftermath the killings of the men.

Names on military monuments do not necessarily translate to the remains of those individuals resting beneath. For example, the Centralia Massacre monument in the federal cemetery in Jefferson City--that monument contains the names of all of those killed at the event in question, but not all of those killed rest beneath.

The example of Herring having his body transported home for burial is the exception to the rule. How many men died in the Civil War? Well over a half million. Consider the implications of transporting all the war dead back to their homes for burial. I would suspect that Herring's family paid to have his remains transported home. I would suspect that the families of enlisted men would not have had the financial resources to do the same.

That is not to say that after the war the men who were killed with Wilson were not transported to Louisiana, Mo. If it were me looking to determine whether the bodies were brought to Louisiana, I would start scouring through the local newspapers for 1884. I would look to see what stories were published in regard to the dedication of the memorial. And I would look to see what those articles said about dead, and I would look to see whether there was any mention of them being reinterred in the Louisiana Cemetery.