Yes, I have some material on Bill Stewart (or Stuart). Stewart broke away from Bill Anderson's band in the spring of 1864 to raid in his home neighborhood of south-central Johnson County south of Warrensburg. Stewart basically gathered some other Johnson County guys from Anderson's and Quantrill's old bands and went in for business on their own. He had about a dozen men and operated independently as much as he could. Stewart's little band could not endure against the strong Federal influence in Johnson County, so they had to migrate first to Cooper County and then to Howard County that summer. He joined Anderson again to defeat Captain Parke's patrol of 44 near Rocheport on August 28, 1864, and afterward went back to running his own band for a few days. I am now studying what he did after that, but it appears Stewart joined the large amalgamation of several bushwhacker bands in Howard and Boone County for the rest of September, including the Centralia fighting on 27 September. In November, after most of the action had ceased for the year, Stewart again operated with only a few men until November 18 he tried to rob a cattle drover sleeping in a house in south Howard County and the drover shot him to death as he broke through the door.

Rose Mary Lankford's "The Encyclopedia of Quantrill's Guerrillas" has some information on him on page 250. I also found information in Cockrell's 1918 Johnson County history, the "O.R.", the 1919 and 1937 Cooper County histories, and Donald Hale's "We Rode With Quantrill." You may recall that you and I exchanged information on Bill Stewart in this forum in December 2005, and I detailed more about his actions in the early part of the war.

Bruce Nichols