Hi Bruce -
just found the following on the GenWeb Fulton County AR archives at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/fulton/history/fulthist.txt
FULTON COUNTY, AR HISTORY
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SOURCE: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 264
"At the outbreak of the Civil War nearly all the citizens of Fulton County were in favor of establishing the Southern Confederacy. A very few who remained loyal to the Union departed to the North. Several companies of soldiers, commanded respectively by Capts. M. V. Shaver, Harry Tracy, L. D. Bryant and others, were raised within the county and served in the Confederate army during the war. In the early part of that period a skirmish took place on the SIMMONS FARM IN THE NORTHERN PART (emphasis mine - KEB) between a battalion of Confederate and a battalion of Federal troops, on which occasion the latter were routed, with a loss of six killed and a few wounded. The Confederates lost but one killed. Another skirmish occurred toward the close of the war, on Little Strawberry Creek, about four miles south of Salem, between a battalion of Clayton's command of Federal troops and a battalion of Confederate troops, under Col. Cloud, on which occasion the latter were completely routed. There was a small loss on each side. These were the only engagements worthy of mention within the county between the contending forces, but scouting and marauding parties frequently scoured the country, killing individuals and taking or destroyed much property. The county was over-run and laid waste, and before the war closed it was almost deserted. There was no bushwhacking among its citizens."
Am guessing the above described action on the "Simmons farm" might well be the guerrilla action you describe in your 1863 book that took place in a swamp just across the Missouri border in Fulton Co. AR, north of Salem (March of 1863?)?
If so, as per the Goodspeed History text above, it looks like this may very well have occurred on the farm of my ggg-grandfather, Peter Simmons Sr., near the present-day town of Moko in Fulton Co. AR (see URL below).
One of his sons, Dr. Peter Owen Simmons from the Thomasville area of Oregon Co. MO, was a member of Fristoe's MO Cavalry as per my other postings.
Please give me your thoughts, etc. on this????
thanks again,
Ken