Robert A. Paxton, 5th Sergeant, Company F, Gordon’s Regiment Missouri Cavalry,* enlisted July 27, 1862, captured in Henry County, Mo, August 3, 1863, received at Gratiot Street Military Prison, St. Louis, Mo. September 1, 1863, escaped by jumping from a window upon a pile of sand, during the night of Thursday, October 9, 1863, resident of Henry County, Mo., age 23, 6’, blue eyes, black hair, last recorded on the Jan/Feb, 1864 muster roll as absent, with leave, no further records

* Subsequently designated as the 5th Regiment Missouri Cavalry

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Charles V. Snelling, Private, Company F, Gordon’s Regiment Missouri Cavalry,* enlisted in Johnson County, Mo. 1862, recorded December 31, 1862 as absent, captured by the enemy about 26 Dec, 1862, no further records

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri