This was a tough one, and, no, I couldn't discover a Lindsey's or Lindsay's or Linsey's Mill in either Boone, Callaway, Moniteau, or Cole Counties, nor could I discover a family or household of this name in the 1860 census. However, there was a L. P. Lindsey listed on page 902 listed at the Fulton Post Office in Callaway County. Some farmers in those days raised cane and milled it for the sugar, and I have encountered a civil war family in south-central Boone County that had one. Their name was not Lindsey.

I do have information of what you seek. To set the stage, in late September 1862 several behind-Union-lines Confederate recruiters were moving south toward Arkansas with their newly-recruited men from the vast numbers of southern men of northeast MO. The Union forces along the Missouri River went nuts trying to intersect some of these traveling groups, and particularly the 9th Cavalry MSM had combat patrols all over the place picking off some of these guys as they moved through.

The incident to which you refer involved Major Frank J. White leading a mounted patrol from Jefferson City of his 2nd Battalion Cavalry MSM that crossed the Missouri River and got into some stuff southeast of the little village of Providence in SW Boone County on 24 September. This was covered in the 17 October issue of the Columbia "Missouri Statesman" that was also quoted almost word for word in the 23 October issue of the "Central City and Brunswicker" of Brunswick, south Chariton County. Here is the article word for word:

"Another Burning Affair. On Wednesday the 24th inst. Maj. White with a force of cavalry from Jefferson City, burned four dwelling houses in the south-eastern part of this county on the river below Providence. One was the house of John Wiggins a rebel bushwhacker; and another belong to Wm. Nevins also a bushwhacker who was at the same time taken out and shot. Another was the house of Peter Tighe who was at the time engaged in bushwhacking but now enrolled and on duty in the Militia. Another half-finished house belonging to Mr. V. L. Vandiver, a loyal man, was burned, the troops supposing from its proximity to Tighe's house that it belonged to him.

We do not know on what authority the above was committed...."[and it goes on with editorial comment but no more specifics about the events of 24 September in that neighborhood.]

There was the Robert Nevins' household there in Cedar Township, but he had no son William, although it appears his son Joel was in Confederate service. The Missouri State Archives has records for two W. Nevinses who could be the man Major White's troopers captured and shot. One was W. M. Nevins of Boone County who enlisted 1 August 1862 in Company E of Snider's Battalion of MO Cavalry. The other was 17-year-old W. R. Nevins of Callaway County who on 1 July 1862 enlisted in Colonel Joseph C. Porter's recruiting command. Since there is no further military record of these two Nevins men, perhaps one of them was the man White' command shot, but this is conjecture.

The 1860 census of Cedar Township also lists about three Vandiver households, too. I failed to find any 1860 census record for a Wiggins or a Tighe (or similar spelled name) in Boone, Callaway, Moniteau, or Cole Counties. Private Peter Tighe enlisted in Company K, 9th Cavalry MSM at Columbia, Boone County, but not until 15 April 1863 and served until mustered out 13 July 1865 at the end of hostilities. I could not find his name listed in the 61st EMM, which to my knowledge was the only Enrolled Missouri Militia unit for Boone County, but there may have been another regiment or part of one there unbeknownst to me. The index for "O.R." series 1, vol. 13, for the report you cited lists Major White's name as Frank J. White, so I looked up his record under that name. The report on page 282, to which you refer, speaks of a later Major White patrol as reported by General Odon Guitar with perhaps some 9th Cavalry MSM action, too. Cambridge is nowhere near the incident in the shooting of Nevins, which took place on 24 September, if the Columbia paper was correct.

Well, I hope that helps. Sorry I bombed out on the Lindsey's Mill thing, but I suspect it wasn't a big concern but just something some farmer had for his own use and that of a few close neighbors.

Bruce Nichols