Anita,

I read your other post on this topic also on 26 November, but I discovered some information about Captain Livingston's company for you.

First, you asked where Livingston's company served. They were in the following battles, according to reading their service records with the 2nd Missouri Infantry (CSA), Company D, which I obtained online from the Missouri Sec'y of State's Office website, Missouri State Archives:

Boonville, Carthage, Oak Hill ("Wilson's Creek" to the Yanks), Drywood, [all the previous in Missouri during 1861 under Price];

Elk Horn ("Pea Ridge" to the Yanks), Farmington, Iuka, Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, Grand Gulf, Baker's Creek, Big Black River, Vicksburg, [Elk Horn in AR, the others in Mississippi during 1862 and 1863, if memory serves];

Altoona, Kennesaw Mountain, [in north Georgia campaign during 1864];

Franklin, Tennessee.

Second, I looked up service records for a number of the men you listed and recognized several (Beanlands and Mark Stephenson) who served much of the war as guerrillas in and around Morgan County;

I also found several who started out in Captain Livingston's southern company who later served in the local Union Companies L and K, 43rd Enrolled Missouri Miliita (James Chilcoat, Thomas Cheshire, and John Sims, but there may be more of these).

William H. Carpenter deserted 12 July 1863, and John T. Ford deserted 25 May 1864 at New Hope Church in Georgia, and maybe others at other times, but when you read the next paragraph, this can be easier understood.

Captain Livingston's company withstood horrible sickness and battlefield wounds. The Bradshaw brothers were left behind at Springfield, AR with sickness, and they did not rejoin the company. John Wesley Dasher was wounded at the Corinth battle and died at Iuka, MS 20 November 1862. Irish-born Captain Livingston, age 31 was so badly wounded at Vicksburg that he was "permanently disabled for field duty," and engaged in conscription duty in Alabama afterwards. Another Samuel Livingston, age 18, was left at the Elk Horn battlefield to "wait on wounded" and did not seem to rejoin the company. Perhaps he was the captain's son or other kin. Private William B. Gorham was wounded at Vicksburg, too, and also wounded again at Altoona, Georgia the following year. Private James T. Estes was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, GA on 25 June 1864, and Private P. H. Devinnie was also wounded at Vicksburg, MS and Franklin, TN late in the war. These I found just in a few records I found for a few of the men on your list who actually remained in Livingston's Company D of the 2nd Missouri Infantry (CSA).

As you also suggested, I found no military record whatsoever for large numbers of the men listed, but I did not look up all of them.

This was a pleasant, brief diversion for me from indexing, and I appreciated it. Now back to business.

Bruce Nichols