Thanks for those suggestions. As my interests are in Missouri in general, and pretty specifically the city of St. Louis, the library sources you have recommended are indeed good ones, but I am stuck 2000 miles from there, so spending times in those libraries to review material that is almost always 'non-circulating' and subject to the restraints of 'special collections' prevents me from making the headway I would like. I have made purchases of copies of documents from all of the sources you mentioned, but shelling out what is becoming a common price of $.75 per xerox copy and/or $5.00 minimum for any search, adds up -- as I am sure all of you are well aware. Searching Google Books, and hoping that most of the keyword hits will end up being from volumes in "Full View" rather than just "Limited Preview" has been the most successful. Otherwise, while things like Census Record, searches via Heritage Quest, are almost never as successful as the equivalent search of those records via Ancesty.com, [I don't know many who can afford the high tariff they charge for being able to get view the raw material], I have sometimes found that Heritage Quests' book search will turn up a freely-available source that might not have yet been scanned by the Google team.

What I think would be very useful for this topic for this time period would be an online search a retrieve against any of the newspapers in that time frame. From what I have been able to access, however, neither the Globe nor the Dispatch, nor any other paper, covering the war period is available on line or by my visiting the actual local libraries. There actually turns out to be one intriguing newspaper article directly germane to this topic that I stumbled upon from some other on-line news-clip which had picked up an article from the "St. Louis Democrat" of November 26, 1869 indicating that some of those who had been assessed were seeking to sue one of the board members. That board member had been a prominent, well-respected lawyer and he was still held in that regard after the war. There is no doubt that some of the persons he had assessed during the war had been his close associates before the rebellion, and some of those same old-firendships were, no doubt, renewed thereafter. In this case, however, the assessed were trying their own interpretation of the 'fuzzy line' between martial and civil lay -- they were no suing him as a private citizen of wealth, not suing the government or even him as a government representative.

The person to whom this refers is named Franklin Dick, and it is his notes on the "Troubled State" that were published in 2008. Since the book sells for upwards of $35.00 and is not found on any of the usual book store shelves, I have not opted to buy it. If anyone who has purchased that text has recommendations, pro or con, those observations would be appreciated.