Bryce, this is something I have wondered myself. I thought I remembered seeing 2 different reports in the O.R. dealing with the refugee train being attacked at Salem. I did a search to find the other report & came across this in vol. 34, part 4, page 235.
ROLLA, MO., June 5, 1864.
Major O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
The report of the burning of train and the killing of refugees near Salem, Ark., turns out to be utterly false and unfounded. A portion of the men sent out from here to look after the train have just got in.
O. GUITAR,
Brigadier-General.
Thats interesting. It may be why nothing else was written about the subject.