I found a Missouri southern officer named Benjamin F. Meade in James E. McGhee's new "Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865" on pages 131 and 169, but he is a CAPTAIN. Captain Meade commanded a company of Colonel Caleb W. Dorsey's recruits from Lincoln and Pike Counties, perhaps late in the war. Colonel Dorsey is a favorite of mine since he was one of the most prolific of the behind-Yankee-lines Confederate recruiters, but it seems he wasn't very good at paperwork and lots of these guys are poorly documented in Jefferson City. The page 131 reference says Meade was commander of Company C of Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback's regiment, called "Slayback's Regiment." Lieutenant Colonel Dorsey was the regimental executive officer, but I think Dorsey recruited many of those guys, especially those from the Lincoln and Pike County area of NE MO. This was an 1864 regiment. The page 169 reference has Meade as a company commander again working still under Dorsey again, but I think this recruiting was performed at the same area during the summer and fall of 1864 and even during Major General Price's Missouri raid.

Where did Ned Douglas live during the war? Knowing that may help.

Bruce Nichols