Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]

The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry…

Silas Turnbo. [Courtesy of the Springfield–Greene County Library District]

Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of…

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The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably…