I am seeking any information members may have about Jim Crow Chiles, former guerrilla, and his stay in Texas. Here is an excerpt from a message I posted at our Yahoo group:
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From: "Bloody Bill Anderson - The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War
Guerrilla" by Albert Castel & Thomas Goodrich, page 36.

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"...About April 10 (1864, Texas) they began marching north toward
Missouri, where the grass was turning green and the leaves
sprouting. Anderson and his followers headed back around the same
time. He left behind a woman with whom he had spent much time during
the winter. She went by the interesting name of Bush Smith
and 'worked' at a Sherman saloon operated by Jim Crow Chiles, a
transplanted Missourian. Although presumably her favors were
available without that formality, Anderson married her. Maybe the
jilting of Mary Ellen by Baker had something to do with it; perhaps
he did it as a joke or during a drunken spree - or, conceivably, he
loved her. In any case, if any of his men worried that marriage
would have a softening effect on him, they soon would be reassured..."
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Please note that these authors say the former guerrilla Jim Crow
Chiles operated the saloon that Bush Smith worked at. This would
indicate that at least this one guerrilla had already left the
fighting and settled in Texas. He would be an excellent person to
research further in our search for answers about Bloody Bill Anderson.
~Jay~

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Thank you,
~Jay~