Yes, you are so right. Dick Yeager or Yager (I am told the family used both spellings) was reported killed three or four times after he gained fame by guiding the guerrilla expediton to central Kansas during May 1863. His name was given as the leader, but I think he was mainly the guide, based on his freighting experience in Kansas before the war. Guiding that raid marked him thereafter and the Union military fixated on him. There were even two or three false stories about killing him in the Missouri newspapers, picked up from those hoaky Union reports. It was an embarrassment. Truth be told, Dick was badly wounded in the head on July 20, 1864 in George Todd's Arrow Rock, Saline County, raid. He could not travel far, so his comrades left him with a southern family (I seem to recall from reading this was in northeast Saline County) who set him up in a hidden camp some distance from their house where a Union patrol a few days later found and killed him. The patrol had no idea who they killed until later. The last report you printed is more the correct one.

I am sorry to hear of your health issues, and wish you the best.

Bruce Nichols