I stumbled across this story in Scott family letters. Has this story survived in other sources?

Two Scott men drove their cattle to market since they believed bushwhackers would just steal them. They didn't bank the money but buried it on the farm. "Bushwhackers" used hanging to try to get them to tell where the money were buried. The women begged them to tell. Both men survived.
These Scotts were descendants/kin of Samuel Scott who was hung in Kansas in 1860. Several brothers and cousins served with Confederates. These folks owned land in Bates Co, MO, Linn Co. KS, and Henry Co, MO.

Anyone else stumble across this story?

--Jean Dresden