You asked about who was wounded at Lawrence and carried away in a wagon where they were later killed by pursuers. In cases like this where I try to determine who was involved in a particular Missouri Civil War event, I try to use either memoirs of participants or writings of those like John N. Edwards and Connelley who researched with participants and wrote just a few years after the war. The concensus seems to be that there were two to four wounded southerners in the wagon whose wounds precluded them from riding horses by either the seriousness or location of the wounds.

Regarding Tom Hamilton as one of the wounded men taken away from Lawrence in a wagon and later killed by the pursuers:

--Donald Hale wrote that Tom Hamilton was wounded during the Lawrence raid, but he later attended reunions, so that tends to eliminate him.
--John Edwards and Harrison Trow both wrote that a Hamilton was wounded in 1863 and left in the brush where they were killed by Kansas troops. That could have been Sam Hamilton who evidently was killed in 1863, but his killing may be part of another event that year.
--John McCorkle said Tom Hamilton and "another one of the boys" were wounded at Lawrence and taken away in the wagon.

Regarding a Bledsoe as one of the wounded men taken away from Lawrence in a wagon and later killed by pursuers:

--Bill Gregg, who I consider to be one of the best, accurate sources for the Lawrence raid , since he was Quantrill's adjutant at the time, wrote only that this happened to "Lieutenant Bledsoe." Gregg also gave the details about Bledsoe being shot in the groin at Lawrence that Don Johnson just cited.
--Connelley said only that this happened to a Bledsoe, with no first name given. Connelley also provides the best identification of the men who found the hidden wagon and killed the occupants during the pursuit.
--John N. Edwards, who interviewed many of the guerrillas soon after the war, wrote that this event involved Lieutenant J. L. Bledsoe.

Exactly who this Lieutenant Bledsoe is I will have to leave to somebody else. I personally think this is one of the Bledsoe families of Lafayette County, but I have no other detail on his identity.

This brings up the possibility that Confederate Colonel John D. Holt's recruiting command, which accompanied Quantrill on the Lawrence raid, was involved.

--One version states that two of the wounded in that wagon were Holt's men.
--It is possible that Lieutenant J. L. Bledsoe was a cadreman in Holt's recruiting command and not part of Quantrill's band. Holt had been recruiting in Clay and Ray Counties and was taking his new recruits south when they happened upon Quantrill's large band just setting out on the Lawrence raid. Colonel Holt expressed his view that having his men go along on the raid would "blood" the new men and give them combat experience. Based on other accounts about Colonel Holt's experiences in Lawrence, he later regretted that decision.

I realize this is not definitive, but the available sources just give so much information. Rose Mary Lankford's encyclopedia serves as a very useful bibliography and listing of major sources on each individual associated with Quantrill and a list of all the sources that have information of each of those individuals. Her work is a sort of "clearing house" for issues such as this one.

Bruce Nichols