Long Description:This limestone slab detail the Union casualties from the Cave
Spring and Bowers' Mill area. The text od the marker reads:
(Picture of the Union Eagle resting upon a striped shield. A
banner with the words "Union Forever" in its beak. It is clutching
arrows and an olive branch,)
In memory of the Union Soldiers & Citizens of Cave Spring
and Bowers' Mill Whose Lives Were Lost in the Defence of Their
Homes During the Terrible Civil War in Southwest Missouri 1861 -
1865
76th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia
Cave Spring School
Co. D - Capt. Green C. Stotts
Biddlecome, John Pvt. 10/27/1862 DOD ~ Cooper, William Pvt.
1/24/1862 Died ~ Degraffenreid, John Pvt. 03/19/1863 KIA ~ Downey,
George Pvt. 11/01/1862 KIA ~ Hoswaw, Stephen Pvt. 11/01/1862 KIA ~
Lawrence, Franklin Pvt. 10/29/1862 KIA ~ McGehee, Asa P. Pvt.
11/21/1862 DOD ~ Moore, George Pvt. 12/25/1862 DOD ~ Porter,
Esquire 10/11/1862 KIA ~ Young, Riley Pvt. 09/06/1862 KIA ~
Gaither, Ephriam 2nd Lt Co. C 11/21/1862 KIA
Bowers' Mill
Co. G
Capt. Henry Fisher
Capt. Thomas Stemmons
Baker, Peter Pvt. 07/20/1864 ~ Blake, John K. 07/20/1864 KIA ~
Buck, William Pvt. 01/29/1863 KIA ~ Clark, Orange 07/20/1864 KIA ~
Fisher, David Corp. 09/ /1864 KIA ~ Fisher, Henry Capt. 03/19/1863
KIA ~ Lawrence, J.P. Pvt. 07/20/1864 KIA ~ Messic, Gentry Pvt.
01/28/1863 DOD ~ Rice, Hiram Pvt. 09/17/1863 KIA ~ Seymour, Robert
Pvt. 07/20/1864 KIA ~ Spencer, William 2nd Sgt. 01/29/1863 KIA
7th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia
Commanders
Co. C
Capt. Grren C. Stotts
Capt. Thomas Stemmons
Alexander, Absalom Pvt. 11/26/1863 Death ~ Arthur, Austia L.
Corp. 11/23/1863 DOW ~ Crawford, Stephen Pvt. 10/29/1864 KIA ~
Estes, Thomas Pvt. Died ~ Henson, Thomas C. Pvt. 09/07/1864 KIA ~
Jackson, Robert V. Pvt. 06/01/1863 Death ~ Lawrence, Alfred Pvt.
07/04/1864 KIA ~ Lowry, James Pvt. 04/12/1864 DOD ~ Morris, John W.
Pvt. 04/16/1864 Died ~ Sly, Levi Pvt. 1863 KIA ~ Wilkinson, John
05/02/1863 Died
15th Regiment Cavalry Missouri Volunteers
Co. C
Commander - Capt. Green C. Stotts
Dunkle, George Pvt. 09/14/1864 KIA ~ Guthrie, Richard Pvt.
09/14/1864 KIA ~ White, John Pvt. 09/14/1864 KIA
Civilian Casualties
Sarah Alexander 10/05/1863 ~ Richard Price Anderson 10/19/1862 ~
Dr. Daniel D. Beck 09/30/1864 ~ Linzey S. Beck 09/30/1864 ~ Dr. J.
M. Stemmons 03/08/1862 ~ James H. Colley 06/16/1862 ~ Charlotte
Colley 06/16/1862 Age 6 ~ Laban T. Fullerton 05/24/1865 ~ James M.
Hunbard 09/14/1864 ~ Josiah Sparks 09/14/1864
"Poor is the Nation that has no Heroes - Shameful is the Nation
that has Them and Forgets"