Sir,

Here is another example for you between unsubstantiated charges and solid history. It's citation follows:

Later, Anderson’s body was searched. Cox said he carried “private papers and orders from General Price that identify him.” In a message to Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Stark, Acting Assistant Adjutant General Major James Rainsford passed on the two orders from General Price found on Anderson’s body. They were from the Confederate Assistant Adjutant General Maclean. One message, dated October 11, 1864, ordered Anderson and his command to be carried by “ferry-boat” to the north side of the Missouri River. The other message, with the same date, ordered Anderson to “destroy the North Missouri Railroad, going as far east as possible.”

War of the Rebellion, ser. 1, vol. 41, pt. 1, 442. Brigadier General James Craig, Enrolled Missouri Militia, commented in a message to Major General Rosecrans on November 30, 1864 that Cox “was in command at my request without a commission, because I believed he would find and whip Anderson. The Government issued him a commission to-day as a lieutenant-colonel, which I will carry to him,” War of the Rebellion, ser. 1, vol. 41, pt. 4, 727. Some accounts say Anderson was killed on October 27, which is incorrect. See War of the Rebellion, ser. 1, vol. 41, pt. 1, 443, for Cox’ account, who was the man who did the killing.