You said you were also interested in a "...fight maybe in Chariton County in Oct..."

You are fortunate that with Price's raid roaring by south of the Missouri River there were not many Union troops left to fight in Chariton County--mostly the local 35th EMM and the local citizens guards (General Rosecrans General Orders Number 107 of about June 1864). Like Howard County, Chariton County was overwhelmingly southern in sympathy, and they were in "high carnival" (as they used to say back then) with the excitement of the long-awaited invasion of Missouri going on not far from their county until it met defeat in the Kansas City area about October 23.

Clifton Holtzclaw often made his base in Chariton County during 1864 protected and subsisted by southerners, but he left bushwhacking during Price's raid and turned Confederate recruiter based on his earlier war career in the regulars. This is to say that Holtzclaw joined Price's army as it went by, and probably brought some recruits with him.

The Texan Jim Jackson (well he was born in KY, but joined the MO guerrillas in Texas the previous winter) operated in Chariton County during October 1864 with some of Holtclaw's former band members, and they got into a couple of skirmishes with Union troops in the Chariton County area that month not far from Glasgow. Maybe that's the one you mean. Yes?

Some of the rest of Holtzclaw's former guerrillas operated then under the late Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson's son Bill Jackson in northern Saline County during September and some of October, so they were not in Chariton County in October, as far as I know.

There were two actions involving Union-operated riverboats at or near Brunswick on 11 October against southern recruits and guerrillas under Jim Ryder and Isham "Ike" Powell ("Ike" had part of his nose shot off in that one) and others, and on 26 October against maybe Jim Ryder or Jim Jackson about a miles or two from Brunswick. Do you mean those fights?

Also during October there were Union depredations against southern sympathizers in Chariton County and guerrilla depredations against northern sympathizers and perhaps informants in Chariton County, too. Do you mean those?

Neil, please tell me more about the fight you are referring to, and I will see if I have something on it or some detail jars something loose abd I recognize the one you are talking about.

Also, how did you know about Fisk sending Major King's outfit against guerrillas near the Hackley family in September 1864, if I couldn't find it in the "O.R."? Please tell me, what was your source?

Bruce