The Home Guard was disbanded when a Union sympathizing provisional governor took office in Missouri, 1861, under an agreement with Lincoln. The Missouri Militia was organized and I remember reading Irvin Walley made quite an advancement in rank at that time. As recorded in Between Three Fires, Walley and his men hung a Harrisonville farmer to access a stash of valuables. In Cole Younger's biography, Mrs. Washington Kerr and Charity McCorkle saw Walley and his men coming from where his father was murdered. Walley was said to have confessed to this and was arrested by a Union officer. Formal charges were never made.