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Capt Richard Francis Yeager

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Capt Richard Francis Yeager

Birth
USA
Death
1 Aug 1864 (aged 25)
Missouri, USA
Burial
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.999734, Longitude: -94.5691643
Plot
Block 36 Confederate Memorial
Memorial ID
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Capt. Quantrill's Co.
Mo. Partisan Rangers
Confederate States Army

Joined Quantrill because the Jayhawkers took everything from his father's farm. Listed on a muster roll containing ninety-two names of Quantrill's men. This muster roll was found by yankee troops on one of the dead Missouri Partisan Rangers after battle at Pleasant Hill, Missouri on July 11, 1862. Present on the Independence and Lawrence, KS raids.
Wounded at Arrow Rock, MO August 1863. Made the famous Council Grove raid 130 miles west of the Missouri state line May 4, 1863 where with 23 others, formed up at the edge of town. To the relief of the towns people, only Yeager rode up, in desperate need of a dentist. The tooth was pulled with the agreement that the town be spared. The rebels then rode off to sack the town of Diamond Springs. Taking to the woods near Frankfort, close to home of Ike Flannery's father, he was Killed in action two weeks later on August 1, 1864 by Federals.
Capt. Quantrill's Co.
Mo. Partisan Rangers
Confederate States Army

Joined Quantrill because the Jayhawkers took everything from his father's farm. Listed on a muster roll containing ninety-two names of Quantrill's men. This muster roll was found by yankee troops on one of the dead Missouri Partisan Rangers after battle at Pleasant Hill, Missouri on July 11, 1862. Present on the Independence and Lawrence, KS raids.
Wounded at Arrow Rock, MO August 1863. Made the famous Council Grove raid 130 miles west of the Missouri state line May 4, 1863 where with 23 others, formed up at the edge of town. To the relief of the towns people, only Yeager rode up, in desperate need of a dentist. The tooth was pulled with the agreement that the town be spared. The rebels then rode off to sack the town of Diamond Springs. Taking to the woods near Frankfort, close to home of Ike Flannery's father, he was Killed in action two weeks later on August 1, 1864 by Federals.


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