I am doing some research about Dallas, Mo., during the Civil War. (The town, in Bollinger County, is now known as Marble Hill.) I have found one source stating that the town largely was burned down in September 1862 by Union soldiers of the 13th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. I found this information in “Civil War Times in Madison County, Mo., and Surrounding Counties,” by Geraldine Sanders Smith. Her source seems to haved been “History of the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry Regiment” (1888). I’m skeptical of this report, however, because I have not seen it mentioned elsewhere, which one certainly would expect. A number of towns in Southern Missouri were burned during the war, so perhaps the historian for the 13th Illinois Cavalry Regiment simply “misremembered”? Would anyone know?