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Re: Edward Thomas Smarr Confed
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Dave:

Here is a lead for you. Enos Craig was the jail keeper of the military "prison" in St Joseph for the time involved. It appears he moved himself and prisoners to St. Louis likely due to the disruptions occurring in the fall of 64 in NW MO.

In any case he must have been one of the rare fastidious record keepers because he turned in quite a bit of info and expense reports when he got to St. Louis.

The record of interest as to what happened to the Smarr's may be in this reel:

Three-page report of military prison keeper Craig of 124 prisoners held and received by him from 11-01-1864 thru 11-30-1864 F1625 (frame)1203 12940 which can be accessed here:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/Archives/Provost/f01625.pdf

Another lead may be here:
Prisoner list from St. Joseph, Buchanan County, ending Aug. 31, 1864; gives names, date imprisoned, date discharged, and number of days in jail; document serves as a voucher paid at St. Louis for jail keeper's services 02-04-1865 F1632 0162 14924

and
Report by Craig as keeper of the military prison in St. Joseph, listing of 34 prisoners received from 11-01-1864 thru 11-31-1864 F1608 1478 8354

These films can all be viewed from the SOS site here: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/provostPDF.asp

Have fun...

John R

PS I've found it easier to download the pdf file and use the page functions in a good reader to get to the neighborhood of the listed film frame. (1203 in the info above)

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