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From: Arleigh Birchler <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Craynor's Regiment State Militia Infantry
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000401c58c5f$1cd303a0$cfa833d8@0017909420>


Dorothy,

Have you checked with the St Louis Public Library?

http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/cvware.htm

The Annual Report of the Adjutant General probably has more information then Dyer's Compendium. Also, you should be able to find a Gentry County history. Local county histories often have a good deal of information about Civil War regiments. (It is a very common name, but my ancestors from Cass County were also Porter's.)

This was very early in the War. Booneville was June 17, 1861, Dry Wood Creek was Sep 2, 1861, the Battle of the Hemp Bales (Lexington) was Sep 13-20, 1861, and the Battle of Belmont was on Nov 6, 1861. I would assume that this regiment was formed for local service in Northwest Missouri. I think that most of the Regular Confederate Army units were limited to Southern Missouri by then. Craynor's was probably scouting for guerrilla bands. Getting prisoners back to a Confederate Prisoner of War camp would not have been a very easy task.

Arleigh

Dorothy Mead <> wrote:

Thank you for your quick reply. I had already found this but was hoping for
a more thorough account of this regiment.. It isn't on the Soldiers and
Sailors page. And neither is my descendant. We had quite a time finding
him but finally did yesterday. Do you know where the clsosest Confederate
prison was ? Isaac D.V. PORTER enlisted Nov. 21, 1861 and died Dec. 31,
1861. So he probably wasn't taken too far away. Thanks again for you
response...........Dorothy


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>
> Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri for the
Year 1863. St. Louis, MO, 1864, pp. 149-151.
> Usually includes a list of officers of the regiment by company, plus an
"Historical Memorandum" which recounts the activities of the regiment for
the past year by company. Occasionally includes other, miscellaneous
information.
>
>
> Organized in Gentry Country for six months October 1, 1861. Engaged in
scout duty in Northwest Missouri till February, 1862. Mustered out February,
1862.
> Source of Data: "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by
Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1340
>




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