I'm so glad to have you back! I merely mention something I don't have, and you make it appear within hours. Is this country great, or what?

Thank you.

Sue,

Below are some resources that may help you with your writing project:

1. Miss Fickel's part in the attempted breakout of the guerrilla jailed at Lexington:
--"Official Records," series 1, vol. 34, part 1, p. 862;
--"Conspiracy to Murder in Order to Release a Prisoner," "Lexington Weekly Union ," Lafayette County, 27 February 1864;
--Frazier, "Missouri Ordeal, 1862-1864: Diaries of Willard Hall Mendenhall," Newhall, California: Carl Boyer III, 1985, pp. 180-1;
--Edwards, "Noted Guerrillas or the Warfare of the Border," St. Louis: H. W. Brand and Company, 1877, pp. 360-4;
--William Young, "Young's History of Lafayette County, Mo," Indianapolis: B. F. Brown and Company, 1910, pp. 135-6.

2. Ill-fated effort of other prisoners at Myrtle Street Prison to break Miss Fickel out:
--"Daring Attempt to Escape From Myrtle St. Prison," "Daily Missouri Democrat," St. Louis, 15 August 1864;
--"Miss Annie Fickle [sic]," "Kansas City Daily Journal," Jackson County, 7 July 1864;
--Joanne Chiles Eakin, "Missouri POW's," Independence, MO: published by author, 1995, Anna Fickle entry;
--Joanne Chiles Eakin, "Civil War Military Prisoners Sent to Missouri State Penitentiary," Independence: published by author, 1995, p. 4;
--United State Government, "1860 Missouri Census," lists in Clay Township of northwest Lafayette County, the household of 50-year-old,
Virginia-born farmer Henry H. Fickel including his 21-year-old, Missouri-born daughter Anne E. Fickel.

3. Unsuccessful attempt by guerrilla chieftain Bill Anderson to coerce area Federals to release Miss Fickel from prison after hearing of the military tribunal sentencing her to three years in prison for her part in the conspiracy to break out Otho Hinton from Union custody in Lexington back in February:
--"Official Records," series 1, vol. 41, part 2, p. 76;
--Richard S. Brownlee, "Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy," Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1958, 199-203.

4. Secret Rebel mail carrier Absalom Grimes' account of another scrape he and Miss Fickel were in with prison officials for unofficial exchanges without prison authorities' permission:
--Absalom Grimes, "Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner," New Haven, Connecticutt: Yale University Press, 1926, pp. 196-200.

5. President Lincoln's remitting the remainder of Miss Fickel's sentence and granting her freedom:
--"Released," "Lexington Weekly Union," Lafayette County, 4 February 1865;
--Eakin, "Civil War Prisoners Sent to Missouri State Penitentiary," page 4.

I wish you well with your article.

Bruce