There is a good reference book that you may be able to see via Interlibrary Loan through your local library that may lead you to a good many more southern men who Union forces killed, provided area newspapers picked up on it.

The book is Lois Stanley, George F. Wilson, and Maryhelen Wilson, "Death Records From Missouri Newspapers, January 1861-December 1865," in Decorah, Iowa, by Annundson Publishing Company, 1983.

Just as an example, this is what Stanley, Wilson, and Wilson have to say about the killings of Hamilton and Snyder:

"Hamilton, James, alias James H. Low, hanged at Macon Friday last. He was a bushwhackers, citizen of Monroe Co." The reference is from the "Daily Missouri Republican" of St. Louis on 7 March 1865. The timing is important, as these things can be a real puzzle sometimes to calculate the actual date of death. If the St. Louis paper obtained the news of the execution on their own at Macon City, then Hamilton was killed Friday, 3 March 1865, which would be the "Friday last" as Stanley, Wilson, and Wilson cited it from the paper on their page 73. This is the way Joanne Chiles Eakin and Donald Hale interpreted the date in their 1993 "Branded as Rebels," on page 185, and they cited as source the same issue of "Daily Missouri Repubican" that Stanley, Wilson, and Wilson used. This is corroborated by the "Paris Mercury," of 10 March 1865 in Monroe County on page 2, column 3 which says James Hamilton was hung Friday and that Hamilton was convicted of robbery. This article tells us that the St. Louis paper seemed to have broken the story first only one day before Hamilton's home county paper carried the news, so my guess is he was hung on Friday, 3 March 1865.

For Andrew Snyder, Stanley, Wilson, and Wilson on page 162 quoted the "Macon Gazette" but no date is provided, and also the "Fulton Telegraph" of Callaway County on 13 May 1865 and stated "Snyder, Andrew, a guerrilla, executed (shot) at Macon," but gave no actual date for the execution. Eakin and Hale's "Branded As Rebels" implies they also used the "Fulton Telegraph" newspaper as source as they give the date as 13 May 1865, and mentioned that the Fulton article quotes the Macon newspaper. I happen to know that the "Macon City Gazette" published on Wednesdays, and the Fulton weekly published on Saturdays. This means Snyder's execution was no later than Wednesday, 10 May 1865, and could have been a few days earlier than that.

Neil, I'm not trying to be smart-aleck or anything, but if somebody were to mark Snyder's grave to reflect his southern cause, I would NOT advise using the 13 May 1865 date, but something earlier.

I'm trying very hard now to get my manscript out the door and to the publisher after slaving over it for five years, so my time is limited right now. You know what that is like, since I use your books as references for what I write. I gave you the Stanley, Wilson, and Wilson reference to give you a good place to go to find other executions and killings of southerners as published in various Missouri newspapers of the period. It's a good place to look first. By the way, I looked in the online Missouri State Archives records at the Missouri Secretary of State's Office website for Hamilton and Snyder with no success.

Bruce Nichols