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From: "Jane Foley" <>
Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] BCGHS CEMETERY UPDATE--EXCITING NEWS
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:28:18 -0400
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How exciting! What a find!

Jane Foley
NC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Fly" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: [MOBARRY] BCGHS CEMETERY UPDATE--EXCITING NEWS


> Good Morning MOBARRY List Readers,
> I have exciting news to report this morning. Three weeks ago while Ted
> Roller and myself were looking for the lost Webbville Cemetery near Madry
> we
> stumbled upon what MAY be a very important historical find.
> The story begins with the land owner, Odell Mattox, leading Ted and I
> through the woods on his land to find a single headstone sitting deep into
> the timber. After about 30 minutes of combing the area we located the
> stone
> of M.G. Webb. The Webb family had purchased the land in 1880. There were
> obvious signs of a few additional burials in the area, sunken depressions,
> field stones, etc... I have a knack for grave dowsing so while Ted and
> Odell were discussing the Webb stone I took out the rods and began working
> the area to find other family graves. What I found was much more than
> expected. The rods revealed a double line of graves running down the hill
> for over a 100 yards. For the past three weeks we have worked at the site
> staking out the graves.
>
> OK, so where's all this going! We believe we have found the graves of the
> Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Upshaw farm and buried by the
> Union army. The Upshaw farm was in the area of the burial site. The
> burial
> site it's self located approximately 300-400 yards off the Old Wire Road.
> There were 50 Confederates reported killed in the battle. The graves at
> the
> site were not counted until Odell and I staked the last grave yesterday in
> what we believe is the military line. 50 graves were staked!!
>
> Saturday August 11, Dr. Holly Jones, from the University of Missouri
> Center
> for Archaeology Research will bring ground penetrating radar to the site.
> Dr. Jones teaches a class in Archaeology at the University and is well
> known
> and respected in the archaeological community. She will work at the
> Maddox
> farm and at two other undisclosed sites in the area.
>
> I understand it takes about a week to get the results of the radar
> readings. Stay tuned for updates as the story unfolds.
>
> Jack Fly
> BCGHS Cemetery Committee Chairman
>
> OCTOBER 29,1864
> SKIRMISH AT UPSHAW'S FARM
>
> *Report of Lieut. Col. Huqh Cameron, Second Arkansas Cavalry (Union) to
> Brig. Gen. John B. Sanborn, Commanding District of Southwest Missouri*
>
> HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT,
> In the Field, Mount Vernon, Mo., October 31, 1864.
>
> GENERAL: I have the honor to report that on the 29th of October, 1864,
> with
> a detachment of about 400 men, principally of the Second Arkansas Cavalry,
> I
> pursued a body of rebels, supposed to be 800 strong, under command of
> Colonel Hodge, from Buck Prairie, Lawrence County, and encountered them at
> the Upshaw farm near Camp Bliss, Barry County. Routed and dispersed them;
> killed 50, took 37 prisoners, 58 horses, 4 mules, a large number of
> saddles,
> and several stand of arms. Three wounded only were found; the remainder
> escaped on their horses or concealed themselves in the brush. The
> prisoners
> report that there were ten captains with Colonel Hodge, viz, Captains
> Thomas
> Todd and John Merrick, Captains Sitton, Kimball, Shull, Rudd, Withers,
> Onam,
> Arnold, and Annabury. The last named was killed early in the encounter.
> My
> loss was 1 man slightly wounded, 1 man injured by his horse falling, and a
> few horses crippled.
>
> The officers and men under my command behaved gallantly. Captain
> Mitchell,
> Seventh Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, commanding the advance,
> deserves to be especially mentioned.
>
> I have the honor to be, general, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
>
> HUGH CAMERON,
> Lieut. Col. Second Ark. Cav., Commanding Detachment, in the Field
>
> *SOURCE: **OR*, Series I, Volume 41 (Part I), Pages 406-407.
> Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna
> Cooper, address - ()
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