Yes, I can. If you will look on the messages attached to yours and read mine of 5:04 pm of 10 March 2009 I cited my sources. I will repeat them:
Broadfoot Publishing Company, "Supplement to the 'O.R.', part 2, vol. 35, 12th Cavalry MSM, pp. 738-9;
"Civil War Fortress Discovered in Deer Run," "Reynolds County, Courier," Ellington, Reynolds County, 8 May 1997.
I looked at the "Supplement to the 'O.R.' material again, and although the company records of parts of the 12th Cavalry MSM provide a detailed narrative of their fight with Colonel Boone's Confederate recruiting command near Barnesville, it does not actually state that the 12th burned down the town. I suppose they really didn't want their superiors reading that, as it may have resulted in repercussions. The newspaper article in the Ellington newspaper from 1997 gave me that information that the Yanks burned Barnesville.
Incidentally, I met several people from Ellington since I wrote that and asked some of them separately 1) if they knew the name of the town before it was called "Ellington," and 2) what happened to the town that was there before Ellington. I was pleased to hear that at least two or three of them knew that the Union cavalry burned Barnesville to the ground, although they did not know the reason. I wonder if they read about the burning of the town in the 1997 newspaper article or knew it before.
Bruce Nichols