I believe Curtis' last day was May 24, 1863, well before Gamble's train accident or fall on the ice, though he may have been absent at some point in early 1863 to visit family in Pennsylvania, I don't know. One can't assume that the purged Radicals were known as Radical or even knew themselves they were Radical at the time they were detailed in early 1863. The split between Union factions had begun but had not fully matured by that time; it would worsen in the summer of 1863 after the proslavery State Convention adopted an emancipation plan that did not satisfy Radical leaders. Radicals became more inflammatory in their language and Conservatives, including Gamble, who for some peculiar reason bristled when the President said he was part of a faction, which he most certainly was, reacted with a campaign of hysteria that involved purges and arrests of hostile editors, etc. I would still like to see evidence of Curtis' involvement in selecting PEMM forces because Curtis' tenure in Missouri is a particular interest of mine and because my understanding had always been that Gamble fiercely guarded his prerogatives with regard to the EMM and its offshoot the PEMM. If that's not true, it would be interesting to know more. I accept that Curtis favored the Radical position and know of one instance where he definitely interceded to protect a Radical officer that Gamble wanted to remove, but this was in the MSM. Thanks, Tom Jones