Graham... I live in Kansas City, so if you can let me know which article you are referring to I would be happy to copy it and mail it to you.

Colonel Thomas Moonlight was first an enlisted man in the U.S. Army (sergeant of artillery) during the Seminole Wars and he was one of the few men with a military background that rose in the ranks during the Civil War in Kansas. Kansas was replete with politicians and men with little formal military experience that Moonlight was a rarity among the soldiers of Kansas.

Moonlight's reminiscences are at the Yale Library, the Beineke Manuscript Collection.

Hope I can help, if possible.

Thanks,
Howard Mann