Respectfully suggest you post this also on "The Iowa in the Civil War Message Board" in this series. They haven't had a post since about June 11, and it's time somebody shook those Yankees up! Maybe they are all busy trying to keep their corn from cooking in the ears in the heat up there. Seriously, somebody in that forum may be of help to you. I seem to recall from my reading of Jim Jackson's raid along two of the Iowa border counties about summer 1864 that his guerrilla band ran into sympathizers there, but I don't offhand recall. After all, southeast Iowa was just a little bit away from the northern edge of the nebulous region of NE MO called "Little Dixie." I know there were lots of southern sympathizers and a few who joined Confederate forces from the far NW corner in Holt and Nodaway Counties, Missouri, too. It stands to reason that some of those Iowans got in on it, too. I did find where three Missouri guerrillas or escaped POWs were apprehended in one of the Iowa towns during 1864, so maybe they found assistance up there. The only thing that saved southern Iowa from a terrible raid by "Bloody Bill" Anderson's and Charles Fletcher "Fletch" Taylor's combined bands (according to guerrilla memoir[s]) was Taylor's serious wounds incurred on 8 August 1864 in Lafayette County, MO. Without Taylor, Anderson seems to have lost interest in the project.

You have an fascinating research line. I would imagine readers of this forum would be interested in what you discover. I would, too. Good hunting!

Bruce Nichols