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Subject: [MO-CW] Re: Colonel Caleb Perkins
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:15:54 EST

Rose,
I think I found Caleb Perkins inside the listing of the William Perkins
family in the 1850 census of Randolph County. There is a 21-year-old Caleb
Perkins born in KY in the family as the oldest child. Two younger siblings
were also born in KY and an even younger fifteen-year-old sibling was the
first one born in MO. Therefore, I would guess that this Perkins family moved
to MO from KY by 1845. I couldn't find Caleb in the 1860 census, but perhaps
I just missed him. Just working the math would make him born KY about 1829.
Peterson, McGhee, and others' 1995 "Price's Lieutenants" on pages 126
and 128 tells us Caleb Perkins as a captain led a Randolph County company in
the 5th MO Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division, Missouri State Guard during 1861.
He rose in the ranks later that year.
Perkins was one of the most successful of all the Missouri
behind-Yankee-lines southern recruiters north of the Missouri River in number
of completed recruiting expeditions if not total number of recruits
successfully carried back to the southern army. He carried out his last
recruits in early November 1864.
I think COL Perkins survived the war, but I have no details and I am
also interested in what you find out about his postwar life.
Bruce Nichols

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