It appears that Talbot ended the war in the same manner that he started it.

Autobiography of Elihu H. Shepard (St. Louis: G. Knapp & Co., 1869), p.192

1861

On the Saturday after I had declined the acceptance of a colonel's commission, Captain Benjamin Talbot came to me with about twenty of his men, and offered me the command of his company to go and join General Price at Springfield, saying he would resign in my favor and serve under me in the ranks. He had been under my command in Mexico, where he was a lieutenant and knew me well. He seemed greatly disappointed at not being able to induce me to accept the command, as his company consisted of over one hundred young men enlisted in my neighborhood. The next morning (Sunday) he took post in front of a small Baptist Church, on the south end of my farm, and as the congregation generally rode their best animals there, he seized them as fast as they arrived and in that manner got possession of all the best horses and mules in the vicinity of my farm and factory. Some objected to the proceeding, but he made the usual plea of tyrants, "military necessity", which was the only satisfaction he offered. This was the beginning of a series of robberies which were continued by both parties for the four following years in that vicinity. The following day he took the horses he had seized to my blacksmith shop in my absence, and compelled my blacksmith to shoe them all with my shoes and nails, and at evening threatened to hang the smith for saying this was "an act of bold robbery". He also took from my store all my ammunition, together with my shot-gun and apparatus.