From the records of Lamar #258 United Daughters of the Confederacy: William Marchbanks served as Capt., Co. B, 16th Missouri Regiment. His wife was Mittie Gear who was born 1843 in Red River County, Texas. She had a brother, A. W. Gunn who served under Gen. Forrest in Tennessee and died in service in Alabama in 1864. William W. Marchbanks was born in Overton County, Tennessee August 26, 1834, the son of Judge N. R. Marchbanks. Moved with his parents to the north side of the Osage in what was to become Henry Township of Vernon County in 1841. After service in Bowen's battalion, he entered the Missouri State Guards as a Captain on April 10, 1861. He was in the battles of Lexington, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Drywood and Ball's Mill. He entered the Confederate Army and came up to Missouri to recruit for the south. In January 1862, he and Captain S. D. Jackman, defeated a force of State Militia in Bates County. In March 1862, he was captured by a detachment of the 1st Iowa Cavalry, and taken to the Alton, Illinois prison. Remained there until September 20, 1862 when he was exchanged at Vicksburg.Marchbanks was with Fletch Taylor on May 28, 1864. He helped destroy Lamar, MO. It was said he was a leader of a guerrilla band in August of 1863 and in December...[can't read] A Captain who was an old settler and former peace officer of Vernon County, MO assembled a small group of Vernon County dedicated to the defense of their families' homes. On May 24, 1863, he and a Pony Hill band of guerrillas dashed in at the south corner of the square in Nevada, Missouri and bushwhacked a party of Federal Militia [who] had stopped to rest at an old brick hotel. As a result of this raid, Captain Anderson of Taberville, Missouri, then led about 100 Cedar and St. Clair mounted Federal militia into Vernon County and after a fruitless search for bushwhackers, they turned the town out into the streets and burned about 80 houses and all the public buildings. For more two years the town remained a deserted ruin. In 1864 his company, belonging to Huff [-] regiment, was with Price in his Missouri raid. He was only 27 when the war broke out. Although he fought as a guerrilla, he never murdered a prisoner or private citizen. He was living near Paris, Texas. Ref: Vernon, 1887; Brophy; O. R. CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Feb. 1911, p. 73.

His brother Robert Marchbanks was with him for a number of these events, but I'm pretty sure this is the Marchbanks referred to by JEN and in the OR. He is listed as part of Jackman's recruiting command and carried a Confederate officers commission thus his exchange.

John R