If you wish to keep digging, I will list some sources for you to find what you seek. I know that the Kansas City Public Library (KCPL) downtown should have these, but probably other smaller libraries closer to you will have some of them, too. These tell about Andy Blunt, or whatever his name was:

--Albert Castel. "William Clarke Quantrill: His Life & Times." New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1962, pp. 79, 95-6, 101-3, 122, 149, 173.

--John N. Edwards, "Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare of the Border." St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1877, reprinted Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1976, pp. 360-364 (Edwards is the source for the possible story on page 360 that Blunt while a member of the U.S. cavalry in the West before the war killed an NCO or officer and escaped living under an assumed name thereafter. I suspect but cannot prove that Warren Welch--see next source below--was Edwards' source, because Major Edwards--General Shelby's adjutant, actually--interviewed large numbers of surviving guerrillas after the war for his 1877 book.).

--Joanne Chiles Eakin, "Warren Welch Remembers: A Guerrilla Fighter From Jackson County, Missouri." Shawnee Mission, Kansas: Two Trails Publishing, 1997, pp. 15-16. Guerrilla Warren Welch--who was also occasionally a soldier in BG Joseph O. Shelby's Confederate cavalry brigade--was staying in the same neighborhood where Andy Blunt was killed 7 March 1864. Welch and Welch's mother moved Blunt's body to the Welch house and while there a passing patrol of 2nd Colorado Cavalry stopped to view the body, not suspecting Warren was a guerrilla. Warren Welch actually witnessed one of the Colorado troopers recognize Blunt's corpse as somebody he had known in the past and Welch wrote "...the colorrados Sed he was a Brave man and was a good fiter [fighter] for I was with him in Colorado in Soverl [several] hard places but he sed teh Pore feller has dun his last." Warren also wrote that "Captin Blunt was beried at the auston [Austin] grave yard near the Layfayerr and Jackson county line onn the old Steve Auston farm. My mother and the other neigber wimmen beried him."). It is my supposition that Welch was in that area with another group of southern irregulars and was not part of Blunt's band, although they knew each other.

--United States Department of War, "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" series 1, vol. 34, part 1, pp. 861-2, part 2, pp. 532, 604-5; part 3, p. 51 (These are the Union military records of Blunt's ill-fated attempt to break one of his men from jail in Lexington, the later killing of Blunt, and BG Egbert Brown's order to leave Blunt's body to rot on the ground where he was killed. This set of books is more often found in larger libraries that have room for this 128-volume set.)

--"Western Journal of Commerce," Kansas City newspaper on microfilm at KCPL, 19 March 1964 (regarding Blunt's death).

--"Oak Grove Banner," newspaper of Oak Grove and near where Blunt is buried, 18 September 1908 issue (if you can locate this on microfilm, probably at KCPL) regarding Blunt's death and burial.

--Rose Mary Lankford, "The Encyclopedia of Quantrill's Guerrillas," Evening Shade, Arkansas: published by author, 1999, p. 20 (with her sources listed on page 304).

--Joanne Chiles Eakin and Donald R. Hale, "Branded As Rebels." Independence: Wee Print, 1993, p. 32 under "Andrew Blount" (listing as primary sources mostly the two newspaper articles of 19 March 1864 and 1908 cited above.).

That should answer your questions. I appreciate your caution in saying about Blunt's place of burial "it's not a place I'd want to go by myself." I applaud your common sense.

Bruce Nichols