Date: April 8 1891

Newspaper published in: Graham

Correspondence
Chicago, IL
March 24, 1891

J.W. GRAVES

Dear Sir:

On October 21, 1890 I had inserted in the Chicago Tribune the following ad:

Seeking information:

Chicago, October 21, 1890 (Editor Tribune) I desire to find, if living,
Lieut. GRAVES, late of the 3rd Mo. Confederate Calvary, who with 50 men of
his regiment under a flag of truce during the late war saved the lives of 16
men of the 1st Iowa Cavalry from certain death at the hands of guerrillas.
Information from any source very thankfully received.

H.S. HEBERLING
Late Lt. Co. B 1st IA Cav
1690 Barry Ave., Chicago, IL

Write to R. Lee FRANCE, Sect1y of the Confed. Association 3The Rookery2
Chicago


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Chicago, December 4, 1890

H.S. HEBERLING

Dear Sir:

Please find enclosed letter from Hon. F.M. COCKRELL in regard to 3rd Mo.
Cav. Hope the information he gives will be of service to you.

Yours very truly,
R. Lee FRANCE

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Washington D.C.
December 1, 1890

R. Lee FRANCE

Dear Sir,

Your favor to hand. The 3rd Mo. Confed. Cav. Battalion was placed under by
command after the surrender of Vicksburg. There was a regular 3rd regiment
of Mo. Cav. on West Side of Mississippi River. If the occurence was on the
east side of the river and after 1862, I refer you to Col. GATES. If on the
west side then to some officer in the 3rd regiment.

Yours Sincerely
F.M. COCRELL

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Previous to or about the time of inserting advertisement, I wrote the
Adjutant General, Washington, D.C., whose reply is also attached.

Adjutant General1s Ofice
Washington, D.C., October 24


H.S. HEBERLING Esq.
1690 Barry Ave.
Chicago, IL.

Dear Sir:

In regard to your inquiry of the the 21st instant, I have the honor to
inform you that Lieut. J.W. GRAVES, Co. A, Third Missouri Cavalry, CS Army
is probably the man inquired after. On February 29th, 1864 he was stationed
with his company at Camden, Ark. His present whereabouts is unknown to this
office.

Very respectfully,
Chas. RUCH, Ast. Adj. Gen.

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I then wrote my venerable and honored uncle, Dr. J.C. HEBERLING, Boonsboro,
Mo. who through an advertisement in the St. Louis Republic received a number
of letters from those who were members of your company: through one of
which, that of F.R. PORTER esq., Springfield, Mo., youwere located. His
letter with a copy of one from Dr. HEBERLING is attached.

Boonsboro, Mo.
March 13, 1891

H.S. HEBERLING, Esq.

Dear Nephew,

I am at home now and find a letter from Lieut. GRAVES awaiting me which I
forward to your address. I have had so many letters from members of Co. A,
3rd Missouri Cavalry. Several of them who were not with the flag of truce
insist on having particulars that I hope you will furnish them to me. Hope
to hear from you often.

Kindest regards,
H.C. HEBERLING

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Springfield, Mo.
Feb. 25, 1891

J.C. HEBERLING, M. D.
Boonesboro, Mo.

Dear Sir:

J.W. GRAVES was 1st lieutenant of Co. A, Third Missour Cavalry. I was a
private in the same company. J.W. GRAVES is now editor of the GRAHAM LEADER,
a newspaper published at Graham, Young Co., Texas. Now doctor, with regard
to what you refer to, I would like to know just when and where it occurred,
and all the particulars as well as you can remember them.

Kindly yours, etc.

F.R. PORTER

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You will please find attached also a letter sent Dr. HEBERLING by Mr. J.M.
MOORE, late of Co. A, 3rd Mo, Confederate Cavalry, who confirms my
statement.

West, Texas
February 22, 1891

J.C. HEBERLING

Dear Sir:

Seeing your notice in the St. Louis Republic of Feb. 20th, inquiring as tot
he whereabouts of Lieut. GRAVES, of the 3rd Mo Confederate cavalry,and
stating a circumstance that I remember as I wwas a member of the company
with the flag of truce, and I remember meeting Quantrell1s, Anderson1s and
Todd1s men who wanted to kill the Federal escort composed of the 1st Iowa
cavalry. The captain1s name was FOSTER, I believe. We met the guerrillas as
we were trying to overtake Gen. PRICE on his retreat in 1864. I am certain I
know the man you want to find. He was editing a paper at Graham, Young
County, Texas and you will hear from him if he is still alive. If you are
one of the party that was with the flag of truce I would like you to write
me. We all formed a good opinion of the 1st Iowa. I was only a boy at that
time being about seventeen years old.

Respectfully,

J. M. MOORE

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The next reunion of the survivors of the 1st Iowa cavalry will be held in
the summer of 1892 (as reunions are held but once in three years). If you
live till then and will consent to honor us with your presence, we will send
you transportation from your home to place of reunion in Iowa ã not yet
fixed, and return. It has been more than a quarter of a century since the
very gallant, soldierly and magnanimous deed performed by you of saving the
lives of sixteen of the 1st Iowa cavalry from certain death at the hands of
Quantrell1s Anderson1s and Todd1s guerrillas while under a flag of truce
near Lone Jack, Mo. in 1864. We desire to present you with some token in
recognition of your honorable conduct. I have the honor to be very
respectfully, your obedient servant,

H.S. HEBERLING.
Late Lt. Co. B, 1st IA Cavalry
Pres. 1st IA Cav. Vet Vol Assocn.

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In a private note from Lieut. HEBERLING, he requests me to publish a
statement of the circumstance referred to by him. It having been over a
quarter of century since it transpired, and having scarcely given it a
thought since, some incidents connected with the affair may have been
forgotten.

During General PRICE1S raid into Missouri in the fall of 1864, Gen.
MARMADUKE'S brigade, to which I belonged, crossed the Missouri River at
Arrow Rock after night, and next morning attacked the town of Glasgow, then
occupied by Col. HARDING1S infantry and one regiment of cavalry. After a
hard fight the Federal infantry surrendered but the cavalry escaped. The
prisonsers were paroled and asked an escort into Federal Lines. General John
B. CLARK, then in command of Marmaduke1s brigade, ordered me, with 50 men,
to take them inside the Federal lnies and return to Glasgow and follow his
trail. I took them to Boonville, where Gen. Clinton B. FISK was in command.
On my return I found Gen. ROSECRANS at Lexington, to whom I reported. He
detained me there three days, stating that there was fighting in front and
he could not permit me to pass through his lines. He sent me via Lone Jack
and Pleasant Hill to Paola, Kansas with orders to go into any post I came to
and draw supplies for my men. He sent Capt. FOSTER with twelve or fifteen
men of the 1st Iowa cavalry with me as far as Payola, their outside post.
When near Lone Jack, Mo., we met about 150 of ANDERSON'S and TODD'S
guerrillas. I halted my command and rode up to them and told them who we
were and our business. The leader told me they would not molest me, but they
must have those "d--n yankees" I told him that he would have to whip my ment
before he got them. After a consultation they permitted us to pass
unmolested. This is all there was of it. I did no more than my duty, and
deserve no special credit for it. While inside the Federal lines under the
flag of truce I was treated with every respect due me, and furnished with
everything needed by my men. I formed a very high opinion of the men
belonging to the First Iowa cavalry that were with me, and would be glad to
meet them again, and will, if possible, accept their kind invitation to meet
withthem at their next reunion.

J.W. GRAVES