My gr-gr uncle, Artificier James W Thomas, from Buchanan County, MO and serving with the 1st Regiment, Missouri Engineeers, was one of the soldiers taken from the train and murdered on 27 September, 1864 in Centralia, MO. His is one of the eight names mentioned the addenda in Sgt Goodman's pamphlet. I've located and downloaded the pamphlet that says the group was travelling from Atlanta, GA to their homes in Missouri and Iowa.

He has been lost to our family since the Civil War. I just recently found his military record which led to my discovery of how he died. He left a wife and 3 daughters when he enlisted for 3 years on 29 Aug 1862, never to return. According to Sgt Goodmans' pamphlet, James was one of 20 furloughed or discharged soldiers from the 1st MO Engineers travelling to St Joseph, MO. James was from a family torn apart by the war as so many were. James and a brother served in the Union army, another brother who lived in Sevier County, Tennessee served the CSA. First cousins, Callahan and Vanhoozers, rode with Thornton's Bushwhackers in Buchanan, Platte and even Harrison counties. Thornton and his men rode with Anderson and Thrailkill so it's possible that one of James' cousins was in Centralia that day.

I'm trying to figure out where James might be buried. From conversations here, it seems he was originally buried in a mass grave in Mexico, MO, then perhaps exhumed in 1867 for reburial in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. I can't find his name there so he is probably listed as an Unknown. Does anyone know if his name appears on any burial lists there?

Thank you,

Tom Thomas