Hi Bruce Nichols or others

I am actually replying to a series of posts in June 2002 on 'Jackman's Regiment' between Jim Martin, Bruce Nichols and Richard Peterson.
I could not access before 2006 on the login page, so I'm posting here.

I believe that my great uncle, William Breedlove (Northern Boone County) may have served with Schnable's battalion MO cavalry that
is said by Philip Thompson (http://www.leecamp.org/?p=212), whose great-great grandfather served with Schnable, to be a part of Jackman's
Brigade attached to Jo Shelby's Division. I noted Bruce's comment that Jackman recruited in Boone and Howard counties in 1863.

William was born in Boone County in 1838 and was living on the Dripping Springs road farm in 1860 with my great grandfather George
Breedlove and their mother. He married in June of 1861. Their first child was born in 1863, but the next was not born until 1868.
There is a surrender record (1865 in Arkansas) for a William Breedlove from Missouri with Schnable's Battalion. There is also a notation
on a web site of the 27th Arkansas Infantry showing a William Breedlove joining in Yellville, AR in June of 1862 and deserting in Feb. of 1863
and noting that he later served with Schnabel's MO cavalry. I have found no reference to when he joined Schnabel's Battalion. The evidence (?)
that this is my ancestor is circumstantial, but appears to fit.

The story is this. Boone County in 1862 is not a safe place for a southern male (we came from Virginia in 1835) of military age regardless
of persuasion. The older brother William leaves the home and women in the hands of his younger brother (my great grandfather) who has
only one eye (cross-bow accident). He joins the 27th Arkansas at Yellville, serves till early 1863, when he receives word of his child's birth
or pending birth he deserts and goes home. Sometime in 1863, he rejoins with Schanbel and serves through the rest of the war.
Truth or legend? I'd love to find out.

I can find very little on Schnabel's (Schnable) Battalion on the web. Thompson refers to Col. John Schnable "as an old-school gentleman
from a well-established southwest Missouri family who was one of the relatively few German Americans who were Confederate". He also says
that Schnable was part of Jackman's Brigade in Jo Shelby's Division. If Jackman recruited in Boone County in 1863, then perhaps my
great uncle was recruited and ended up with Schnable.

Can you help me with any info on Schnable's Battalion or my great uncle?
My e-mail is: mbreedlove49@hotmail.com

Regards
Michael Breedlove