Cindy,

I wish you had shared which counties those men called home, but I'm going to take a crack at this anyway, even though MSG work is a little out of my research area. The Fifth Division (I disagree those men were in the 6th Division of the MSG, as that division included southern men of central Missouri) covered the counties of Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway, and Atchison Counties of northwest MO (source: Peterson, McGhee, Lindberg, and Daleen, "Price's Lieutenants," Independence, MO: Two Trails Publishing, 1995, pages 23, 160-161). This source lists the only known Company C officer as First Lieutenant P. Adkins (same source as above). Adkins' Company C was part of Colonel James P. Saunders' and Lieutenant Colonel J. H. R. Cundiff's 1st Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Buchanan County Regiment," according to the above source and the 1881 history of Buchanan County (pages 718-9). The 5th Division's 1st Infantry Regiment included men from Andrew, Atchison, and Nodaway Counties, and it was formed and organized at Camp Highley in east Andrew County (source: Sifakis, "Compendium of the Confederate Armies," Missouri Volume, page 145). The battle record of the 1st Inf Regt included Blue Mills Landing on 17 September 1861, the Lexington siege of September 1861 (after the Blue Mills Landing fight), and Elkhorn Tavern 6-7 March 1862. Wilson's Creek on 10 August 1861 is not included, but obviously some of the Company C men took part in that fight, based on the large number of wounded you discovered in the records. LTC Cundiff saw a lot of action throughout the war, and he was killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee on 30 November 1864 ("Price's Lieutenants," p. 160). I couldn't find anything on Captain Adkins, and so I wondered if his age (you wrote he was 43 in 1861) possibly kept him out of the war after 1861.

The only name you listed I could find in the online Missouri State Archive records at the MO Sec'y of State's website was Gideon Roberts. At age 32 Roberts enrolled on 25 April 1864 at Savannah, Andrew County, MO in Captain Cole's Company B of the Andrew County Battalion of Enrolled Missouri Militia, which is a Union home area defense unit. A Union Captain West mustered in Private Roberts at Savannah five days later on 30 April 1864. There is a curious remark at the bottom of Roberts' card: "From muster in roll, only roll above company on file in this office." I have seen this statement a number of times before, and I interpret it to mean in this case that the State of Missouri hardly has anything on Company B, Andrew County Battalion of EMM, and evidently no other record of Private Gideon Roberts. The record does not say more, but the remark gives me the idea that Roberts complied with the law (General Order Number 19, Dept. of the Missouri HQ, July 1862) and enrolled and even came back five days later and was mustered in by an enrolling officer, but the remark may mean that nothing more was required of him in this unit. The EMM units were not voluntary, and enrolling and mustering in were compulsory to all military age men in the state. Any EMM units remaining to the end of the war were all mustered out or disbanded in March 1865, to make way for voluntary citizens guard units (often called "Missouri Militia") who kept law and order in their counties until civil law enforcement returned sometime later in 1865 or 1866.

I did not look up the names you listed (as wounded at Wilson's Creek) in the 1860 census index or the census itself, but you had knowledge of where these men lived, so perhaps you already took that step in your research.

I hope this helps,
Bruce Nichols