Dear Listies,
I find the Provost Marshall records interesting and fun to peruse.
Examples...
Britenbaugh, Samuel
St. Louis
St. Louis Citizen of Wellington, states that Mr. Harding of St. Louis claimed to have passed a female spy into the camp of Sterling Price 10-18-1861
F 1339
Bruen*, Joseph (Bruns?)
St. Louis
St. Louis Letter applying for retroactive pay while serving on court martial case
05-05-1862
F 1286
Burch, Charles
St. Louis
St. Louis Soldier Friedrich Kulmann's* statement regarding the arrest of Charles Burch on Current River in Shannon County
05-20-1863
F 1288
A cousin of mine is married to A. Burch...I wonder if related to ^ Burch's?
Blank, John (Blanke?)
St. Louis
St. Louis Office of Refugee Bureau asking for transportation for John Blank, an orphan, whose father was killed in the federal army
03/22/1865
F 1466
Bishop*, P. H. (Bishof?)
St. Louis
St. Louis Details of John Klein's* arrest
02-21-1862
F 1152
Bernard, Weitzel
Sitzer, August
St. Louis
Sworn statements about Frederick Thies*
03-04-1862
F 1403
Benner William
St. Louis
St. Louis Examination, prisoner captured by Rebel guerrillas in 1862 while a cook on steamboat Lewis Adams, forced to serve in the Confederate Army until captured by the Federal Army in 1865
03-08-1865
F 1230
Behrens, John H.
St. Louis
Oath of Allegiance
03-01-1862
F 1228
Bechtold, Jacob
St. Louis
St. Louis Statement of reasons he fell asleep while on night watchman duty on Steamer Louisa
09-26-1864
F 1228
^ Funny. Would love to find such a file that included my family...
Atheron, Unknown
St. Louis
St. Louis Statement of James Shindler*, MSM corporal, Benton Barracks; in saloon on Grand & St. Charles Plank Rd. Atheron served him & other soldiers whiskey; drank whiskey from Hinchcliff saloon on Grand Ave. 02-05-1864
F1220
(St. Charles Rock Road today)
Missouri State Archive online is great website to explore.
Barbie-Lew