Hello. I checked with my friend and you are correct as it was Lt. John Percival of Missouri. He died at what we now call and spell as Bayou Meto. That is right at the edge of what is now the town of Jacksonville which is in the edge of Pulaski County. It was right on the Military Road.
It may have been that his group was at Helena--July 4, and in the area of Brownsville in early August. Movement was of course very slow.
His descendent is named Ann Kraus and she lives in Michigan.
My history group does have a diorama of the Battle of Brownsville which you may love to see. It was Yankee Missouri against Confederate Missouri I do remember that.
If you ever come to central Arkansas please feel free to stop by. The diorama even has a speaking part with it. It is found in Lonoke, Arkansas just off the interestate on the way to Memphis.
Nowadays, folks try to say it was a skirmish but that would not account for the Prairie County Courthouse being demolished by the Yankees and made into a barracks for Hicks Station. There were a lot of people there for the time too, around about 1,000 I believe. Brownsville is about 2 miles north of where I live.
Hicks Station was the spot that the old steam engines had to stop for water. It was also a fairly large Yankee spot. Hicks Station is about a mile and a half due east on Hwy 70 from where I live.
When the county lines shifted for the final time in 1873, Brownsville was in what is now called Lonoke (say lone oak) County. It has never been anything since the Civil War except a sleepy community.
I teach second grade and the great grandfather of one of my students lives in a house where it is possible to see the markings in the walls where prisoners were chained. At least that is what I was told by his daugther.
Swords, cannonballs, shells, a carrier from a hospital wagon, etc.
are just some of the things found in this area, but the historians always deny there was anything happening around here.
I even know a wild tale of two Yankee soldiers wounded and dying being taken in by a family in the area. They never told anyone for fear the
Yankees would think they had killed them. Then, they could not tell the Confedrates because it would have been said they aided the enemy.
Thanks for being interested in a lone Lt. from Missouri. He is not in a cemetery one and if I was not in the area, I would not have understood what the lady was even trying to tell me several years back.
Good luck with your work and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Linda T. Acrey
Lonoke, Arkansas