« Reply #41 on: May 23, 2015, 01:55:41 PM »
IIRC the biography I read on Wild Bill Hickok reported that the ACW continued to be fought on an unofficial basis in the Missouri area for sometime after Appomatox. I seem to remember reading something about returning Union and Confederate Vets trying to "settle scores" for quite a while afterwards. Heard anything about that? Best Wishes,
Bruce
I have read an account of the family of my nephews wife, from the Bootheel area; Five adult males entered the ACW as Missouri Militia cavalry until the Federals disbanded them. Then they volunteered for service in the southern cavalry. When the internal civil war heated up they returned as guerrillas. By the end of the war three survived to lay down their arms, but NONE made it home!
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