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John & Keith,

Fascinating amount of material on Ridgway's raiding! I would think all this raiding probably made him a hero out in Kansas.

Keith, I rather doubt that widow Robinson was "Gooley" Robinson's mom. Those Robinsons lived south of Warrensburg in south-central Johnson County. Of course, Mrs. Robinson MAY have moved north to Lafayette County by January 1864. There were a number of Robinsons in that region, I seem to recall from earlier research.

Gooley was killed while with Bill Anderson's band raiding Danville the evening of 14 October 1864. I should add that Bill Anderson himself didn't lead his band on their railroad raiding in Montgomery County. Bill had other devilment in mind back in battle-scarred Glasgow in Howard County, and his band returned to him at or near Glasgow a few days later for more adventures, but without Gooley, sadly. I looked back on pages 126-7 in my Volume IV, and see that Bill Stewart and his small Johnson County guerrilla band went with Anderson's band to Montgomery County, so Gooley may have been in Stewart's small group, but it would be correct to say that Gooley was "with Bill Anderson's band," wouldn't it, either way?

Bruce Nichols

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