A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Robert W. Grove
"History of Saline County", p. 315:
Soon after this affair [a fight with guerillas], two young men, Grove, a nephew of Colonel Wm. A. Wilson, and Gilliam, a son of A. W. Gilliam, Sr., of the northeastern part of the county, were captured on the Miami road by a scouting party of Federal soldiers from Marshall. Major Kelly, then in command of the post, says they were taken straggling in the rear of a band of Quantrell’s [sic] guerillas, whom they had recently joined. The relatives of these unfortunate men contend that they had not joined any guerilla band, and did not intend to, but they were making their way to the Confederate army. On the night of the 29th of July, about midnight, a party of soldiers in Marshall, without the knowledge of their officers, took Grove and Gilliam from the guard, with or without the connivance of the guard, dragged them into the woods north of town, and there hung them. The bodies of these two ill-fated men were found the next morning, quite dead, and buried by the citizens.
It’s too bad they didn’t give the first name of the accused Grove, but it must have been Robert, who is known to have died on 30 Jul 1863. Quantrill’s Raiders, of course, was a famous/infamous guerilla group.
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