A million thanks for your consideration and information, also for the tip on James E. McGhee's "Guide to Missouri Confederate Units", I will get it as soon as I can.

I suppose my quest will remain a mystery unless one of those participating in the killing by chance made a written comments on it and it just hasn't been discovered or made public yet.

It has been an interesting journey into the past looking into this one little incident and while I may not have found the answer I began looking for, I have learned volumes on related and non-related other actions and people of the time.

Thanks again Bruce,

Porter