There is a lot of information about twenty-something Annie Fickel of Greenton, west Lafayette County, from her part in a failed conspiracy to help break one of Andy Blunt's guerrillas from jail in Lexington the evening of 22 February 1864; through her military tribunal conviction and sentence to three years imprisonment and some prison misadventures; all the way to Abraham Lincoln remitting the remainder of her sentence on 30 January 1865 a few weeks before his assassination. As Rose indicated, it appears guerrilla Joseph Fickel of Quantrill's band who was killed in April 1863 in Lafayette County was Annie's brother. Her escapades seem as if they were written for a story book, and she must have been a truly remarkable young woman. Sadly, I have almost nothing on Miss Fickel after her release.

What would you like to know about her?

If you would be so kind as to pass along to me whatever you have about her after the war I will give you details about some of her wartime adventures with source citations so you know where I found my information. Would that work for you?

Bruce Nichols