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Re: 1862 fatalities from Missouri guerrilla war

Sally,

Thank you for those kind words. Sometimes, while looking for answers, I find much more than I expected. Your case is one of those.

Sorry about confusing two generations of the Jones family.

I believe I found more about Bill Pulliam in 1864. The familysearch.org site has the individual civilians in the Provost Marshal's files alphabetical, so I collected what they had on what I was thinking at the time was a second William Pulliam. After stumbling onto the effects of General Orders Number 11, it fits that Bill Pulliam had to leave his Cass County home after the order came to depopulate the county, and what I first thought was another Bill Pulliam may very well be more about the same man living in exile in Knob Noster in nearby Johnson County, MO.

The Union's District of Central Missouri headquarters at Warrensburg on 19 April 1864 made a William B. Pulliam swear that he would not conduct larceny or do anything more to support the Confederacy. This Pulliam was in the district jail at Warrensburg in April, and for his release had to report to the district headquarters in Warrensburg from Knob Noster ONCE A MONTH for the duration of the war. Union officials arrested and jailed Bill Pulliam subsequent to his April 1864 release for committing an unspecified larceny. The Union headquarters at Warrensburg on 15 December 1864 made Pulliam provide a $1,000 bond to be released again under the proviso that he report to the district headquarters ONCE A WEEK. This time, the penalty if he violated conditions of his release included not only his return to the Warrensburg jail, but that he would forfeit the $1,000 bond, too.

I found nothing more on Bill Pulliam. I believe this William B. Pulliam MAY be the same man arrested 7 June 1863 with Jerry Jones, and that the Union military made an error regarding his middle initial.

Of course, this episode tells us nothing more about Jerry Jones.

Bruce

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