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Re: Oct 18, 1862 Pulaski Co skirmish

Tying up some loose ends here.... Like so many men in Missouri at the time, individual Confederate soldiers movements between units was extremely fluid at the time. While Benjamin Ely is documented as a captain of Company F in online lists of Porter's regiment (1st NE Missouri Cavalry), the Craig brothers and Brooks haven't appeared on them in regard to that particular unit. However, it turns out they are documented as belonging in the 1st NE Missouri Cavalry in Mudd's book, With Porter in North Missouri, p. 397, with Mudd proceeding to go on and track them on into Clark's Regiment once they ultimately made it into safer confines.

Porter enrolled them into his regiment on July 1, 1862, with the company officers being Captain D.W. Craig, age 44; 1st Lieutenant G.R. Brooks, age 22; and 2nd Lieutenant W.W. Craig, 29. Mudd includes a thorough and detailed roster of this iteration of the company, which includes J.H. Snedicor, one of the Snedicor brothers we have also been talking about recently who seemed to be popping up in the region's historical record quite a bit at the time.

I'd say these fellows appear to have been the ones who 48 hours before the Pulaski skirmish famously crossed the river en masse in the hijacked steamer Emilie at Portland, with Krekel's 1st MSM Cav. Batt. wrecking the party before a second group could be ferried across, and the 10th MSM Cav simultaneously finding the rest of the mass gathering of escaping Confederate up the road at Auxvasse Creek and scattering them too.

So, with this development of figuring out how the Craigs and Brooks fit into the equation, some of the pieces of the puzzle continue to fall into place.

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