You may wish to refer to James E. McGhee's 2008 "Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865," from The University of Arkansas Press. You can buy it, find it in your library, or if they don't have it examine via Interlibrary Loan for a small fee. Jim's landmark work has information on the units and unit records of both Sidney D. Jackman's and William A. Schnable's commands.

General Jackman's autobiography is 1997's Richard L. Norton's editing of the memoir called "Behind Enemy Lines: The Memoirs and Writings of Brigadier General Sidney Drake Jackman," by Oak Hills Publishing of Springfield. My understanding is that Oak Hills is no longer with us, so this book is probably out of print. Although Jackman's book is hard to put down once you begin, he does not always lay out for the reader the where, when, why, and which unit he writes about. This is a shame considering how bright and organized Jackman really was during the war. Jackman does not always tell the reader the full story about his episodes. Part of this is Jackman saw some rough stuff and had a lot of secret friends help him thoughtout the war, so I imagine he sticks to the barebones to protect old friends and avoid creating new enemies. In other words, you may visualize your ancestor in Jackman's command as you read this, but a lot of your questions as you phrased them for us will go unanswered in Norton's book, sad to say.

Schnable is an enigmatic figure, since most of his southern service was along the Missouri/Arkansas border, a region that was poorly documented except "who hit John" sort of stories and folklore. Sadly, we lost the chance to see that set right a few decades ago when the men and women who could have recorded all of this went to their graves holding on to that information in order to avoid stirring up the bitterness again for their survivors. This terrible war was really bad down there. John F. Bradbury, Jr. of the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection at the MU at Rolla can and has provided information about Schnable and some of his adventures. Elmo Inengthron's "Borderland Rebellion" has some information and a picture of Schnable, too.

I don't offhand know who you mean when you cite a source called "Thompson." Can you give the man's full name and explain a little? I will probably kick myself when I read who you mean, but it eludes me as I sit and write this.

I will cite Ingentron, Bradbury, and Carolyn Bartels' "The Forgotten Men" (about the 1861 southern Missouri State Guard) to say that Schnable was a prominent Rolla businessman of Phelps County and perhaps Dent County, since one of his early commands was of Dent County southern cavalrymen. He served his cause faithfully throughout the entire war, and nearly always in that shadowy land along the Missouri and Arkansas border. His unit was re-organized as a cavalry battalion in summer of 1864 and assigned to Colonel Sidney D. Jackman's brigade of General Joseph O. Shelby's cavalry division. In that capacity Schnable and Jackman served under General "Old Pap" Sterling Price through all the Price's raid in Missouri during September through November 1864, then returned to that same region I cited earlier to serve through the first few months of 1865 until surrender was inevitable.

To answer your questions about your Confederate trooper ancestor, I would imagine Private Breedlove fled Boone County during summer of 1862 when the Union Dept. of the Missouri General Orders Number 19 brought on universal military service for all able-bodied Misssourians of military age in the despised Enrolled Missouri Militia--Missouri's private Yankee army of thousands of reluctant men. That order was the greatest inducement to Confederate service Missouri ever saw. As you indicated, Breedlove rode south, probably with lots of friends (because he was not foolish enough to go it alone), and joined Schnable on the MO/AR border. Perhaps he fell in Jackman's command in summer of 1864; as I explained above that both commanders were in the same chain of command at that time.

I hope that helps.

Bruce Nichols

P.S. My 1863 book has a lot to say about Jackman's recruiting in the Boone County area during that year, but that may or may not apply to Breedlove at that time.