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CW Papers by County at SHS

If you're looking for memoirs from a person living in a certain county, the State Historical Society has begun arranging the memoirs/papers in their collection by county. The link below will take you to the Cole County page. If you scroll down, you'll see the link to digitized files of citizens from that county. Joel Bolton was one of the Hickory Hill Roughs and discusses the death of Fountain McKenzie at the Battle of Carthage. Fountain McKenzie fought with Parsons in the Mexican War. The memoir also discusses meeting up with William Roberts from Camden County, a person of significant interest to Civil War Linn Creek. I couldn't find an index to change counties, so I just deleted one county name and substituted another. It seemed to work.

http://shsmo.org/research/guides/civilwar/regions/counties/cole.html