Doc,
That detail about Puckett's arrest and prison stay is just what I wanted. Based on my study, Federal authorities released just about every POW from the jails and prisons in Missouri during April, May, and June 1865 except some trouble cases--that is, people that gave the Feds trouble. If there was somebody they didn't release until July, they were making a point. I would guess they were blaming Chapman and Puckett for all the trouble in Morgan County during summer 1864, but we don't know how much of it was their doing.

Bruce Nichols