Author Larry Wood has a different perspective on the Col. Frazier killed at Humansville on March 26, 1862. His conclusion is that Julian Frazier was not at Humansville. http://ozarks-history.blogspot.com/2013/03/skirmish-at-humansville.html I'm looking for confirmation here that he is correct.
While I didn't think his short blog made a strong enough case on its own, and gets lost in a discussion of "Polk" that doesn't help (other Frazier has a Polk in family), a bit of checking does seem to lend more credence to the core of the case given by Wood. The core is the Provost Marshal record of two other Cedar Co. men. What I see as missing to make his argument bulletproof is a grave/known date of death for whichever Frazier was not at Humansville. Did either of these colonels survive the war or is there any record of either of them being alive after March 26, 1862?
The two colonels we are discussing are: Julian Frazier of Wright County, MO and James M. Frazier of Cedar County, MO. Julian Frazier was a Col. of the MSG at Springfield during Zagonyi's charge. He would briefly be in command of the 7th Div. MSG in Jan/Feb 1862. He had been Wright County Clerk in 1854 & 55. He was a 52 yr old lawyer from TN. Per 1889 history he "signed the roll of attorneys" in 1856 and became circuit attorney in 1857 and prosecutor in 1859.
In addition there was Julian's son(?) Capt. Joseph K. Polk Frazier who was killed Sept. 1862 in action near Hartville, MO against the 10th IL Cav per "Sterling Price's Lts." p. 293 He was adj. of Julian Frazier's MSG cav until both mustered out on March 16, 1862. The relationship of son I glean from the 1860 Census http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mowright/1860-1.html (given as "Jas K.P." I think but the file is a mess.) There is also his older brother "John M." who is Co. Clerk in Nov. 1860. (Julian is "Land Agent" at the same time.) John M. Frazier apparently survives the war to become appointed Co. Attorney in 1872. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mowright/off_1.htm John M. had been 3rd Lt. of Company A and resigned Jan. of 1862. Also see he was on the rolls as attorney in 1857? Not sure if this is the same person as the census since he would have been young although listed as 22 yr old lawyer in 1860.
The "Colonel" James M. Frazier of Cedar County, MO is a little harder to trace. For some reason, I'm not seeing him in the 1860 census (although Ancestry says he is there), but he shows up in the county history several times, once as a Justice of the Peace and in several land registrations in the mid 1840's through 1850's. He's also Cedar Co. treasurer then clerk in various years. History says county officers were Southern sympathizers and took the county records to Arkansas where they were eventually found in a cave. Frazier neighbor German P. Bacon's provost marshal record says: "Charged with violating laws of war; part of guerrilla band that in March 1862 under James M. Frazier attacked State Militia party under McCabe in Cedar Co. and attacked Humansville, Polk Co." Isaac Hosey faced a similar charge. There is also a James A. Hunter from Sebastian, AR with similar description of guerrilla band in action near Humansville date unspecified. James Frazier had a female slave in the 1850 census. He shows up as a 34 yr old farmer from TN with family including 5 daughters (oldest one "idiotic") in the 1850 census. This appears to be the same Frazier who married ANGELINA LAIN, June 28, 1838, in Grainger Co; Tennessee.
A Capt. McMinn is also listed as killed by the MSM during the Humansville attack per the O.R.