From the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
Snelling , Benjamin L.
BATTLE UNIT NAME:
2nd Regiment, Missouri Cavalry
SIDE: Confederacy
Paxton , Robert A.
BATTLE UNIT NAME:
5th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry
SIDE: Confederacy
Snelling , Charles V.
BATTLE UNIT NAME:
5th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry
SIDE: Confederacy
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Name: Benjamin Snelling
Birth Date: May 1836
Birth Place: Missouri, USA
Death Date: 1923
Death Place: Genoa, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
Cemetery: Genoa Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Genoa, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: Mary J. Snelling
Father: Benjamin Snelling
Children: Clara M Ray
Florence M Gray
Family story is
Ben Snelling, son of Benjamin Snelling, was born about 1836. A few years, after his father's death, he migrated back to Missouri with his mother. There he married Mary J. Davis, a distant relative of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States. They moved to Santa Rosa, California with six children, then to Roseburg, Oregon where three more children were born. Then they moved to Silver Lake, Oregon where Mary Snelling burned to death in the big Christmas party fire December 24, 1894. Their son Robert also died from burns as a result of the fire. A daughter, Clara, was also badly burned. After this disastrous fire Ben Snelling moved his family to Big Pines, California for 2 years and then to Genoa, Nevada, where he died at the age of 83.
Charles V. Snelling, a son of Benjamin Snelling was killed in the Civil War.
I can find no mention of Charles V. Snelling after the war.
I personally think that Robert A. Paxton and Charles V. Snelling were recruiting in Henry Co., or on their way through to recruit. And we're captured. There is an article in the Confederate Veterans Magazine that gives an account of what happened to Charles, but no mention of Robert Paxton.
I do not know who he escaped with. Nor why it says, on the US Civil War Prisoners of War Records, that he was sent to Alton, Illinois on Sept 29, 1864. However, there is no record, that I can find of him being received or being a prisoner at Alton Prison.
Total mystery!