Perhaps we'll see a 'Nichols' website in the future WITH a search engine - I personally would pay a fee to join and use !! We have been searching for years for our gggrandfather Peter H. Rice who was picked up as a guerilla in 1861 along with many other Callaway County men and sent to the Gratiot Street Prison in St Louis. The sos.mo.gov Provost Marshal papers tells this story but one wonders how many records were possibly lost. The Provost papers show one of the men in this group being released (probably because he agreed to sign); but cannot find anywhere what happened to the others - including gggrandfather Peter. I have read that Gratiot Street had many disease outbreaks and that they buried these men on an island in the Mississippi - but then that story might be mixed up with the Alton Prison since this is a more probably spot for islands in the Mississippi. Some soldiers were also buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery but many of those tombstones are 'unknown.' There were such atrocities on both sides of the war it is a tough read...
nellyb