His correct name is "Warner Lewis," from Dayton, southeast Cass County, and a prolific recruiter in that region during 1861 and 1862. You will find him on page 210 of "Price's Lieutenant" as the paymaster for the 8th Division, Missouri State Guard of 1861, when he was only 27 years old. He was part of the large Confederate recruiting drive across west-central Missouri that culminated in the Lone Jack battle of 16 August 1862. On November 6 Quantrill and his band on their way south met Colonel Lewis and his group of recruits and arranged to raid Lamar, county seat of Barton County, but Lewis and his men were no-shows, and Quantrill's band suffered casualties attacking the strong Union defenses in the courthouse. Colonel Lewis was part of a detail of 20 on their way to Colorado Territory to recruit for the South when one of the party shot at Osage Indians in the Osage Nation in southeast Kansas. This led the Osages on 15 May 1863 to all but wipe out the group, and only Lewis and John Rafferty survived by hiding and walking back to temporarily join Thomas R. Livingston's guerrilla band in Newton County. That is about the last I have on him during the war. Eakin and Hale in "Branded As Rebels" on page 266 wrote that postwar Lewis owned a dry goods and grocery business at Lee's Summit, Jackson County.

I have more. Do you need anything else on him?

Bruce Nichols