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Hi, Casey,

There was a Lindsay Hutchinson in the 1860 census of Madison Township of SW Johnson County: farmer, age 33, wife Elizabeth, age 32, both born KY, with 4 young children age 13 and younger. This MAY be the L. Hutchinson who obtained only one vote for county clerk in the election to fill the vacancy made when James McCown murdered county clerk Marsh Foster in his office in the Jo Co MO courthouse. (Source: 1881 History of Johnson County, MO, page 556).

This MAY also be the Hutchinson who led a small band of southern men to remove to safety the property of Confederate Colonel Ebenezer Magoffin in west Pettis County east of Jo Co MO. This was on or about 18 January 1862, according to the St. Louis "Daily Missouri Democrat" of 23 January 1862. Colonel Magoffin, brother of KY governor, was at that time in military prison in STL after Magoffin's capture as one of 1,500 southerners responding to General Sterling Price's plea, who were captured in NE Jo Co MO on 19 December 1861 at the mill on the Blackwater River.

On 9 August 1863 this MAY be the same Confederate Captain Hutchinson who led a small band of guerrillas (including Michael Burgess, Thomas Little, and possibly John Brinker) who murdered four former northern militiamen working in a field south of Warrensburg, Jo Co MO. This act set off a spate of terrorism by northern sympathizers in this area. (Source, State of MO, "Report of 22nd General Assembly of Missouri on Conduct and Leadership of Militia," 1864, pp. 311-324).

On 16 July 1864 there was a "Hutchins" as part of local man Bill Stewart's small band of guerrillas who fought Union Captain James. M. Turley's patrol of 25 troopers of 7th Cavalry MSM on Clear Fork in east Jo Co MO (Source: "Official Records" series 1, volume 41, part 1, page 50). These men rode north back to their home area in this county with either Quantrill's and Todd's band (before Todd and Bill Anderson deposed Quantrill a few days after they arrived in Jo Co MO) in April 1864 or Bill Anderson's band in May 1864. Not sure which, but Stewart had independent command at this time.

On 12 August 1864, near Rose Hill, sw corner of Jo Co MO, at Lotspeich's a Union corporal's detail of 7th Cavalry MSM gathering forage for horses from local farms skirmished with eight of Hutchinson's band, although no casualties were mentioned. The Federals captured five firearms. (Source: "Official Records" series 1, vol. 41, Part 1, page 242).

Not sure if all these Hutchins or Hutchinsons were the same man, but it seems likely that most of the above is about the same man. Does that help?

Bruce Nichols

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