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Re: Col. John Boone of Price's staff

I was hoping someone could help me find out something about a nephew of Col. John Boone. His name was Van Zumwalt and he was born in St. Charles, MO to Henry Zumwalt and his wife Jemima Boone Zumwalt. Jemima was sister of Col. John Boone, daughter of Nathan Boone and granddaughter of Daniel Boone. From a family letter written by Van's last wife Fannie (Jemima Francisca Murdock Zumwalt) she says that her husband was recruited by Col. John Boone in St. Charles and "went with him." She claimed she never knew which regiment Van was in. She said that Boone was recruiting for Price's army. She learned of her husband's death because his brothers Nathan Boone Zumwalt, Benjamin Franklin Zumwalt and Francis Marion Zumwalt were with Van after he was shot in the thigh at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. The wife said he died and the brothers buried him along the White River. The brothers had written her after the death of Van. Fannie did not know what regiment Van had been in and from the contents of the letter it sounds like she was hoping to get a Confederate Pension of some sort many years after the war. So my question is can anyone help me find out which regiment he was in and any other information about his death? I cannot find him on the military records in ancestry.com. Would Van Zumwalt have been working with Col. John C. Boone on General Price's staff also? Did Fannie ever get a pension from Van's service? She remarried about 8 years later to Jefferson James White in St. Charles, MO and later moved to Saline County, MO. Fannie and Van Zumwalt were on the 1860 census in St. Charles, MO.

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