Callaway Guards

The following is a listing on the members from the May 31st, 1861, Missouri Telegraph.

The youngest of this group was sentenced to be shot- see account below list.

01.W. S. Austin	31.A. W. King
02.R. S. Bagby	32.F. W. Knight
03.J. D. Bartley	33.Sanford Langley
04.J. P. Bell	34. Joseph Laurie, Commissary Sgt.
05.Henry T. Blow	35.James McClanahan
06.James W. Boulware	36.Daniel H. McIntyre,Captain
07.T. C. Boulware	37.George McIntire
08.Frank A. Brewer, Drummer	38.J. M. Meadows
09.Samuel Champlin, 3rd Sgt.	39.E. M. Morris
10.Geo. S. Collier	40.S. W. Mosley
11.John A. Craighead, 2nd Cpl.	41.D. H. Muir
12.Nick P. Craighead, 4th Cpl.	42.J. Muir
13.Geo. W. Davis	43.F. W. Payne, 1st Cpl.
14.John W. Davis	44.Charles Prentice
15.Joseph B. Davis	45.J. W. Russell
16.Wm. H. Dawson	47. S. E. Shoemaker, 1st Sgt.
17.R. M. Douglas	48.Lucian Shotman
18.John Dunlap	49.Thomas Shotman
19. W. Sing. Duncan 3rd Cpl.	50. James Stewart , Orderly Sgt.
20.A. G. Fisher	51.James P. Snedicor***see below
21.Jesse Garner	52.Robert H. Taylor
22.James L. Grant	53.H. T. Terrell
23.Benjamin Griggs	54.Isaac S. Terrill
24.W. H. Hall	55.B. A. Walter
25.E. Hansard	56.E. B. Walton
26.B. S. Hite	57.F. M. Warner
27. John S. Hoskins,1st Lt.	58.J. C. Watkins
28.James T. Jameson	59.James K. Wells, 2nd Sgt.
29.T. H. Jameson, 3rd Lt.	60.Henry Willing. 2nd Lt.-see below
30..J. L. Jones	sentenced to death and confined to Alton Prison
31.Thomas S. Kames

***"The youngest member of the Callaway Guards, at age 16, was James Snedicor, who, less than a year after joining the Callaway Guards, was arrested by his older brother, Provost Marshal Isaac D. Snedicor. James Snedicor was tried and sentenced to death for his participation in "guerrilla" activities in Callaway County." Refer: The Civil War in Callaway County

CHARGE 1: Aiding in the destruction of the North Missouri Railroad. Specification—In this, that on the night of the 20th day of December, 1561, James P. Sne~dicor w~th other persons unknown did unlawfully within the Military Dis- trict of North Missouri burn and destroy certain railroad ties and with crowbars, picks, sledges and axes remove certain rails, which ties and rails formed a part of the common traveled way known as the North Missouri Railroad. This in violation of martial law then prevailing in the Military District of North Missouri.

CHARGE 2: Giving aid and comfort to railroad and railroad bridge-burners and destroyers. Specification.—In this, that the said James P. Snedicor did on the evening or night of the 20th of December, 1861, meet with other parties unknown and plan the destruction and by his presence aid, assist and afford comfort and assistance to said jiarties unknown who did burn and destroy certain ties, rails, track and bridges being part of and appertaining to the North Missouri Railroad. This in violation of martial law then prevailing in the said Military District of North Missouri.

CHARGE 3: Accessory before the fact to the destruction of the North Missouri Railroad. Spccification.—In this, that James P. Snedicor at the county of Callaway, State of Missouri, on the 19th day of December, 1861, and after that date did solicit divers persons to go to the track of the North Missouri Railroad in Audrain County, Mo., within the Military District of North Missouri on the 20th of December, 1861, to then and there ai(l and assist in the destruction of the North Missouri Railroad. This in violation of martial law then prevailing in the said Military District of North Mis- souri. To which charges and specifications the prisoner pleaded as follows: To the first charge and its specification, guilty. 31 R R—SER II, VOL 1

Page 482- PRISONERS OF WAR, ETC. To the second charge and its specification, guilty. To the third charge and its specification, not guilty. The commissiou finds the prisoner as follows: Of the first charge and its specification, guilty. Of the second charge and its specification, guilty. Of the third charge and its specification, not guilty. And does therefore sentence him, James P. Snedicor, to be shot to death at such time and place as the commanding general of this department may direct. Finding and sentence approved. The sentence will be carried into effect at such time and place as may be hereafter designated by the general commanding the department. In the meantime the prisoner will be confined in the military prison at Alton.

796 PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE, ETO. MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Iii., [July 1, (‘?)] 1862.

DEAR GENERAL: We, the undersigned, members of the C. S. military corps and citizens of the Confederate States of America, respect- fully ask through our Government to immediately consider separately and collectively our situations as prisoners of war, now held as crimi nals by the United States Government and incarcerated in the Alton Penitentiary for executing the orders of; the Confederate Government as directed by her commissioned officers. Our treatment by the Federal authorities is and has beemi of such a nature that we deem it absolately necessary to appeal to our Govern ment to throw around us her safe- guard and relieve us from the horrors of a long imprisonment and the execution of our sentences. Subjected to great indignity, basely insulted by fiendish outlaws, tortured by threats of death and punished With a felon’s decree, by being shut up in a cell day and night for boldly assist. ing the Government we ‘love in r. sisting the encroachments of a blood- thirsty mobocracy—after undergoing this fiery ordeal we firmly believe we merit from the Confederate States Government her fullest protec- tion and that cognizance should be takemi of our cases at the earliest possible moment. With the earnestness of much-wronged citizens and soldiers we append to this the names*of— ABSALOM HICKS, - Captain. JOHN C. TOMPKINS. JAMES W. BARNES. JAS. P. SNED1COR, T. M. SMITH. Captain Recruits. A. R. TOMPKINS, - Lieutenant. GEORGE H. CUNNINGHAM. R. B. CROWDER. MATTHEW THOMPSON, Captain Recruits. HENRY V. WILLING, Lieutenant. OWEN C. HICKAM. THOS. S. FOSTER, Surgeon in ~ Division, Missouri State Guard. JOHN W. OWEN, [ See trial Transcript] Recruit. JAMES STOUT. WILLIAM J. FORSHEY. JOHN PATTON.

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—CONFEDERATE. 851 ALTON MILITARY PRISON, ILL., August 15, 1862. COMMANDING GENERAL, Department of the West of the Confederate Forces:

1. Matthew Thompson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, captured in Boone County, Mo., belonging to Colonel Dorsey’s regimetit of recruits of the Confederate Army, was tried by a military commission for bridge burning and assisting in the destroying of the North Missouri Railroad and was sentenced to death for the same, and is now awaiting the execution of his sentence in the above-named prison, would respectfully ask the interference of my Government in my behalf, promising to be as faithful to the Confederate Government as I ever have been, &c.

2. Absalom Flicks, A. B. Tompkins, John C. Tompkins, of Boone County, Mo.; Henry V. Willing, J. P. Snedicor, John W. Owen, from Callaway County, Mo.; John Patton, Stephen Stott, William J. Forshey, Thomas M. Smith, from Boone County, Mo.; George H. Cunningham, Buck [II. B.] Crowder, William Combs, from Randolph County, Mo.; Dr. Thomas S. Foster and James Stont; making sixteen in all that we know of now at this time that have been sentenced to death, mid we have suffered every indignity and insult that yon can imagine from the Federal authorities, and we hope and trust that our commander-in- chief will do something for our relief. We are, respectfully, your soldiers,* Matthew Thompson, Absalom Hicks, A. B. Tompkins, John C. Tompkins, Henry V. Willing, J. P. Snedicor, John Patton, Stephen Stott, Win. J. Forshey, Geo. Cunningham II , Buck [B. B.] Crowder, John W. Owen, Thos. M. Smith, Wm.Combs, Thomas S. Foster, James Stout.