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From: "Wilma Fields" <>
Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] BCGHS CEMETERY UPDATE--EXCITING NEWS
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:47:44 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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Jack,

Would you post this on the Lawrence co. List, or may I have permission to do
so? This may be a lead on some family from Bucks Prairie that were killed
about that time frame, and were confederate soldiers.

Wilma

-------Original Message-------

From: Jack Fly
Date: 08/01/07 06:14:56
To:
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.
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