Tried to post a reply to some who asked about Charles Galloway. I wanted to relay some information I found in his obituary of a battle near Flat Creek on August 1, 1861. My interest was due to the death of Abednego Baze on that day.

Little noted in history, an account of the battle was obtained from an obituary of Maj. Charles Galloway, and printed in the Cassville Democrat in 1905. Maj. Galloway was the step-brother of Abednego's wife, Sarah Jane Coons:

"At the start of the Civil War, Maj. Galloway raised a company from Stone County and tendered his services to Gen. Lyon, then commanding in Springfield. The company was ordered to the duty of home protection and from that time, until the battle at Wilson Creek, remained in and around Stone County. Capt. Galloway, now bold and defiant, and become especially obnoxious to the Confederates, and a part of 63 were sent by Gen. Mackintosh, a Texas regiment in the vicinity, to entrap him. Capt. Galloway had been advised of the attack, called to his aid a few Home Guards & thus feebly reinforced, took position in the vicinity of Clark's Mill on Flat Creek. About this time he had been personally threatened by Wm. McKenny, living on Rock House Creek, 9 mi N.E. of Cassville, and he knew a determined effort would be made to take him. The eminence of his danger had only permitted him to gather 45 men and with these he prepared to put up a fight in the most approved bushwhacking method. A man named "Pevey" accompanied by "Wild Bill" Price, well known now in the S.W., was cautious yet he attacked with a spirit and part of Capt. Galloway's reenforcement fled. His men, now reduced to 30, but antimated by their intrepid leader, fought bravely. For half an hour the woods resounded with musketry. Galloway's men taking advantage of trees, logs and thickets, only firing when they could draw a bead. The deadliness of their aim soon had its effect and Wild Bill Price vindicated his sobriequet & the recountable Pevey turned his back on Clark's Mill. A horse had been shot out from under him, 15 of his men had been killed and a number wounded. Now knowing that this attack came from the advance of the Confederate Army ascertained to be near, they fell back & moved to Springfield." This was a prelude to the battle at Wilson Creek a week later.