You asked who got captured in St. Louis on June 1, 1864 beside Ferdinand Zellner.

The answer is nobody, because it didn't work that way. No skirmish, no action. You see the Union forces had St. Louis sewn up and detectives and refugees closely watched the steamer and train depots for suspicious southerners. Lots of northern sympathizer refugees watched in the streets to see if they saw any southern sympathizers from their home counties, and then would summon the cops and arrest them. Zellner's papers probably did not pass inspection and he couldn't talk his way past the detectives. Confederate Major John F. Rucker of Sturgeon, north Boone County, was captured that way on June 4. The guys were in civilian clothes, but did not face execution as spies or guerrillas if they could convince the Yanks they were regular Confederates.

Detectives and others were alert in the bars in case somebody hoorayed for Jeff Davis or uttered other "disloyal talk," which would also get someone a one-way ticket to one of the military prisons and a tribunal. You must remember that Missouri was under martial law and Bill of Rights and many other citizen guarantees were suspended for the duration of the war.

Bruce Nichols