If this is "OLD" news, break it to me gently. :-)
PATTERSON, Mo.,
October 24, 1863.
General FISK:
My scouts are in. I will be after Tucker in the morning if you do not want him. I thought I would kill all jayhawkers, and Tucker is one of the very worst. My notion was to leave him. If you want the man, I will bring him up, if I can get him; if not, I will leave him. I hear that Reves men are very much scattered, and he cannot get them together. Now would be a fine time to be after him. The leaves are gone, and they will have to find their holes. One hundred men would do the work. They should have no incuinbrance whatever.
W. T. LEEPER, Captain.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI, Pilot Knob, Mo., October 24, 1863.
Capt. W. T. LEEPER,
Patterson:
If you are sure that Tucker is a jayhawker, this would be a poor place for him. I want him to tell where Mrs. Byrnes horse is; also the mules he stole from Copeland. If he tries to escape he ought to be shot. I don’t want him. You will move early in the coming week. Have everything on a war footing. I shall hold elections in every county in the district, if possible.
CLINTON B. FISK, Brigadier- General.
Title: The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 22 (Part II)
Page 675-676
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Capt. Lonergan
Yours of 20 inst. was duly received. I went to see Mr. Davidson yesterday, but did not find him at home. I saw Mr. Howell, he says that John B. Wadlow is a bad man and he has my confidence in him. I have seen Mr. Spellby Daniels, he says that John B. Wadlow volunteered in the Rebel Army at the time of Prices raid last fall and that he was about home in the company one John Dickey, a guerilla. Mr. Daniels says that Wadlow and Dickey stole a mule, the property of John N. Copeland of D Co. 3rd M.S.M. about Oct. 1, 1864 and came to Daniels to kill him about the same time. Wadlow is reported by Capt. Leeper as a guerilla. I think Mr. Daniels would be a good witness against Mr. Wadlow. Daniels can be found here when wanted.
Most respectfully your Obd. Servt.,
(signed) Charles G. Robins
2nd Lieut. M Co 17th IL Calvary
Compiled Service Records, Wadlow, Charles C and John B Wadlow, Quantrill’s Reg. file, footnote.com.
John Dickey served in the Co. E, 3rd MO Cav. CSA
J. Taylor Tucker served in Co. B, 3rd MO Cav. CSA, after having served in the 1st Div. of the MSG.
Later, Tucker was with Martin Clardy.
These two items I believe reference the same individual:
Tucker, Taylor MO Cav. Clardy's Bn. Co.C 3rd Lt.
Tucker, Joseph T. MO Cav. Clardy's Bn. Bumbaugh's Co. 3rd Lt.
John Dickey married 17 year-old Amanda Rhodes on 15th of June 1870
They are together on the 1870 census. John Dickey 29 Amanda Dickey 17, Polk, Madison, Missouri, United States
I don't know yet if John Dickey died or they seperated but 10 years later we find on the 1880 census, Joseph T. Tucker 38 Amanda Tucker 27 Anna M. Dicky 8, Polk, Madison, Missouri, United States
Joseph Taylor Tucker is the son of Apollonarias Tucker of Madison County.
I am fairly well satisfied that this is the Tucker that Leeper was after. Is there anything I missed that anyone can add to this? Also the Wadlow records tell a very good story. Can anyone contribute as to why their records would be filed with Quantrill's Regiment?