Forum,

Please help me identify a southern guerrilla leader named Tucker or Captain Tucker who operated in the area in and around Wayne County in southeast MO in autumn and winter 1863-1864. Union Captain William T. Leeper of 3rd Cavalry MSM was fixated with catching or killing Tucker and his band according to Leeper's messages to superiors in the "Official Records" vol. 22, part 2 and vol. 34 part 2. Since this was also the operating area of Confederate Colonel Timothy Reeves at this same time, was Tucker an officer in Reeves' regiment?

I'm rather sure this Tucker in Wayne County was NOT Captain William R. Tucker who led a guerrilla commmand in Pulaski County to the west at this same time. THIS Tucker seems to have been part of Confederate Colonel Thomas R. Freeman's regiment, unless I am mistaken.

Can anyone identify this Tucker in the Wayne County area?

Bruce Nichols