here is the text of the letter about the Papaw Militia warned to leave the state. I've checked a few names in 1860 census. The Berry's, for example are living in Marshall, Platte County in 1860, several Berry families provided sons to the list.

"To the Citizens of Buchanan and Platte counties - You are ordered to leave the State. You are knows Rebels and Bushwhackers and Rebel sympathizers. You have aided the Rebellion long enough an dif you don't leave that country against the first day of March 1865, hell be you domb(??). I will give you a list of the names first: A. D. Blythe, Jess Page (Pace?), Dick tilton, Bart Bellis, M. J. Alexander, Thomas Dye, Killion Berry, Wm. Berry, James Berry, Eli Berry, Si Berry, Bill Foley, Allen Foley, Columbus Frazier, Roberts, Harry Hargrove, J. M. Lawrence, Wm Best, Tom Taylor, Mortimer Jones, Henry Gore, Louis Gore, James Gore, Sam Grooms, John Gill, Ben Stuart, James Black and all his boys, James Dunlap and boys, Charley Staley, Alexander Brown, Wm. Brown, Sam Dosser, Sam(uel) Pace, James Pace, Wm. Mulkey and all others that belong to that institution Papaw Militia and Southern Gentlemen. You must leave that country or hell will be your fate. You may mark that. Yours truly, Mid Knight Rangers. No. I to whom it may concern death death death - damn you all.

Letter was postmarked February 1865. Appeared in the Atchison Globe newspaper at the time.