This is a tough one. Shelby's guy feels like the right guy given the bold context, but it's iffy. I'm coming up with this guy from the postwar account of a man who was an 8-year-old kid in 1864 when this happened. During Prices' Raid Hendley rode into Richmond, Ray County, pretty as you please, a few days before Bill Anderson made his appearance in the area. Here's what the kid said--

"...when lifting my eyes, I saw directly in front of me, not over fifty yards distant, thirty or forty Confederate cavalry drawn up at attention, and my father passing casually among them as he recognized fellow citizens and friends of only three years before. Captain John Hendley, whose mother still resided in Richmond, was in command, and the men, for the most part had been local citizens of the town or community. When I saw that group, I let all holds loose and fled, so deeply had the dread of Bill Anderson been burned into my soul.... I don't remember when they moved out or on. A long delay would surely endanger their friends. But, on the morrow when the sun had risen, Eph Holman and Bill Hudgins were among the missing and did not show up again till after the war. This band encamped on Fishing river near Albany (later Ada), where, among other accretions, came Bill Anderson and his band...."

Now Ephraim J. Holman had been in Ray County's elite Company C, 4th Provisional Enrolled Militia (G.O. 107) and is listed as having deserted on Oct. 19, 1864, which times it right. Interestingly, Fishing River is spot on exactly the place where 1st Lt. James Baker, Company C, 4th Provisional Enrolled Militia (!) found Bill Anderson seven days later through the use of a spy in Anderson's camp, with word being brought out and back to Baker by the wife of one of Baker's men.... Hmmm....