Hello,

My ancestor was a member of the 4th MSM Cav. So, I'm interested in all things 4th MSM Cav.

I'm trying to research the "Affair at Rawlings Lane." My introduction to this episode was the Bruce Nichols books on the Guerilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri.

Some accounts of this skirmish have about 24 men of the 4th MSM troops holding out in a house near the Missouri River bottom. Other accounts, have them holding out near Sulfur Springs.

I think that I have found Sulfur Springs near what is now The Sulfur Springs Church, located within the Davisdale Conservation area. On page 122 of a book called "Healing Waters Missouri's Historical Mineral Springs & Spa", by Loring Bullard. They speculated that the church "may be near the "Rochport Sulphur Spring" mentioned by Albert Peale in 1886.

Since the high ground that the troopers would need to hold off the guerrillas would be to the West, I think the Sulfur Spring area may be the correct one.

Perhaps this might be the same location.

Reports have the battle at a point 4 miles NW of Rochport. There is a school there called the Rawlings Historical School. That location must be extremely close to what they called, "Rawlings Lane."

Anybody with any thoughts on this?