Tuesday, April 12, 2011 n serving the community since 1908 n Join the conversation at ColumbiaMissourian.com n 50 cents Wright given 30-year prison sentence Becky Doisy’s killer him guilty of the second- mately ended the deception. be sentenced to life in prison, degree murder. He used his real name for the especially because he lived could be up for His goatee and his hair, check, which revealed that he the last 34 years as a free Prosecution built ‘no body’ case parole in 12 years. which used to be trimmed was a wanted man. man. By Anne Christnovich believed Wright was dead, and jet-black, were longer and Doisy’s younger sister, “He deserves to end his life [email protected] too. By Anne Christnovich mostly white. He wore a white- Kathy, read a statement to the in prison,” Hicks said. When Assistant Prosecut- Although it was true that [email protected] and-black-striped prison suit court through tears Monday, But Oxenhandler denied the ing Attorney Richard Hicks there was an outstanding Johnny Wright was expres- instead of the charcoal-gray explaining how the loss of her request because the sentence began looking into Johnny warrant for him from 1985, sionless Monday afternoon as suit and orange tie he wore sister sent her parents into was determined by 1976 laws. Wright’s arrest almost two he hadn’t been seen or heard he was sentenced to 30 years the last time he stood before a spiral of grief and how she Hicks then requested the years ago, the Boone County from since the early ’80s. in prison for the murder of Judge Gary Oxenhandler. herself suffered survivors’ maximum of 30 years. Prosecuting Attorney’s office But in September 2009, Becky Doisy, a young Colum- Doisy was last seen on Aug. guilt for years. Wright will be eligible for didn’t even have a file for him Wright was unexpectedly dis- bia woman whose body was 5, 1976. She was 23. “If you spend the rest of parole as early as 12 years anymore. covered and arrested when a never found. A warrant for Wright was your life in jail, you and your from now, when he’s 78. No one expected to ever background check for a job in As Wright, 66, stood to be issued in 1985, charging him family will not suffer a single According to Department of hear again from the man Georgia revealed the warrant. sentenced in a full Boone with Doisy’s murder, but percentage of the misery that Corrections rules, at age 70 a wanted for killing Becky Hicks soon asked his col- County courtroom, a crowd it wasn’t until 2009 that he you inflicted upon my family prisoner is eligible for parole Doisy in 1976. Although her league Cecily Daller to work gathered for a full docket of was arrested because he had and many others,” she said, if 40 percent of the sentence body was never found, police, with him on the case when he other cases turned its atten- assumed a new name, Erroll looking at Wright. has been served. friends and her family all realized the difficulty of it. tion to him. He looked older Edwards. Boone County Assistant Wright’s attorney, Cleveland believed she was dead. Many, With no body, no manner and thinner than he had in It was a background check Prosecuting Attorney Rich- Tyson, said he would appeal including Doisy’s family, Please see WRIGHT, page 3A January, when a jury found for a job in Georgia that ulti- ard Hicks asked that Wright Wright’s conviction. Missouri The Civil War: 150 years later Senate The Senate Redistrict- ing Committee passed the House’s congres- sional district proposal with a 4-3 vote. ColumbiaMissourian. com Show me the errors Submissions decreased 50 percent over two months in the contest where readers suggest corrections to the Mis- sourian. Page 5A SOCCER The Rock Bridge girls’ soccer team defeated Hickman 5-1 on Mon- day night. Page 1B Education Missouri’s 13 public universities received a shared $250,00 grant to help redesign courses. ColumbiaMissourian. com Track MU’s Tre Chambers was named male ath- lete of the Tom Botts Invitational track meet on Saturday. ColumbiaMissourian. com ABOVE: A map at the Boone County Historical Society shows where soldiers from Today’s Boone County died during the Civil War. The red weather denotes where Confederate Today: Sunny. soldiers died while the blue A state divided Temp: 68° thumbtacks denote where By Sarah Tucker Tonight: Union soldiers died. 140 [email protected] Mostly clear. total soldiers died from large map of the east- THE WAR WITHIN THE STATE Temp: 46° Boone County alone. ern half of the United Here are a number of places where you can learn more about the local impact of the Civil War. Page 2A Nick Schnelle/Missourian States hangs at the ABoone County Historical DOWNTOWN Boone County BOONE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES Society’s new Civil War exhib- COLUMBIA Courthouse Centralia daily GAS Site where slaves it, dotted with red and blue WALNUT Site of one of state’s worst battles; were auctioned; Civil PRICES thumb tacks. The blue pins Centralia battlefield park has War monuments Boone Our daily track of gas mark where Union soldiers BROADWAY monuments and trail markers Columbia EIGHTH County prices in Missouri. from Boone County died. The The Columns Mount Zion Church Cemetery on Francis Site of 1861 skirmish; graves Cost of oil per red pins mark where Con- Graves of 31 of Confederate soldiers PROVIDENCE Quadrangle federate soldiers from Boone black Union BARREL: $112.18 ELM Federal troops County died. soldiers, 52 used Academic Confederate The map is the creation of Hall, which the 70 soldiers local Civil War buff William columns were part $3.639 $3.730

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/ MILE y Missouri 8 a Berry. His fascination with Site of battle that Lane 63 the war traces back to a visit kept Missouri from Union wagon a he made to Brown’s Station, seceding; Union and train attacked; 70 Confederate graves sign marks spot just north of Columbia, when mond soldiers sund off Route J he was 5. Berry’s great-great- SOUTH Cooper County 54 grandfather had been a jus- COLUMBIA Boone fought for tice of the peace there. While Jewell Cemetery County 50 visiting the site with family, State Historic Site Historical S T A D I U M Jefferson City the young Berry was shown Graves of George Jewell, PROVIDENCE Society Sources: his descendents and Exhibit National Cemetery an old whipping post and told Has graves of Union GasBuddy.com, oil-price.net both the some of their slaves featuring Civil Cole the story of how justices of soldiers; Confederate War artifacts County the peace, his ancestor includ- soldiers buried in nearby E . N I F O N G Index ed, meted out punishments to City Cemetery Confederate slaves. 2 MILES 63 15 MILES Abby 7A “It just stuck with me,” he Calendar 2A says. Classified 5B and Union Berry is 77 now, and his STAFF/Missourian interest in the Civil War grew ing down the stories of Boone brigade,” Berry says. Comics 7A into a lifelong passion. A for- County soldiers who fought in America’s Civil War began Lottery 2A armies mer executive director of the the war. The pins on his map 150 years ago today, on April Inside Opinion 6A Missouri Nursing Home Asso- dot places as close as Wilson’s 12 in Fort Sumter, S.C., when Sports 1B ciation, Berry has been study- Creek, near Springfield, and as secessionist forces bombard- Read more about Sudoku 6B ing the Civil War era in ear- far away as Charleston, S.C., ed the U.S. Army stronghold Missouri’s involvement nest for the last 20 years. He Grand Gulf, Miss., Lexington, there. gives several speeches each Va., and Franklin, Tenn. The election of Abraham Lin- in the war and sites that Our 103rd year/#151 year to groups around Mis- 2 sections “In Franklin, Tennessee, coln the previous fall proved you can visit around 16 pages souri about the Civil War and the captain managed to get the last straw for the South, Columbia today. travels to battle sites and cem- almost all his troops slaugh- which viewed Lincoln’s anti- eteries across the U.S., track- tered, including the Missouri Story continued on page 4A Page 4A

6 54051 90850 3 Page 4A — TUESDAY, April 12, 2011 COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN TUESDAY, April 12, 2011 — Page 5A Border state Missouri was divided over slavery during the Civil War CONTINUED from page 1A Tennessee. “Relatives only slavery and economic initia- two generations back were tives as an attack on states’ in the Revolutionary War,” rights. South Carolina had Berry says. But although seceded from the Union by slavery was legal, many later December 1860. Mississippi, settlers aligned more with the Florida, Alabama, Georgia and West than the South. Louisiana followed in January “Missouri was the edge 1861, and by May, all the South- of civilization,” says Jenifer ern states had seceded from Flink, the Boone County His- the Union. The Civil War was torical Society’s executive in full swing. director and curator. “The Missouri’s place in the war border was the ‘wild west.’” was unique. It was a “border Those later settlers were state” that was allowed into mainly German and Irish the Union as a slave-holding immigrants who opposed state, but it never seceded. slavery for religious reasons Although the big-name battles and because of their own occurred far to the east and experiences with indentured south, Missouri was the site servitude. of the third-highest number of Even some landowners who battles — many of them bloody owned a few slaves would pay guerrilla skirmishes — behind their slaves and allow them only Virginia and Tennessee. to keep some of the money, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant eventually earning enough to came out of retirement to join purchase their freedom. At the war and led his first bat- the time of the Civil War, tles in Missouri. Missouri sent Columbia was home to more 199,111 men to war – more than than 50 freedmen — slaves any other state. who had purchased or been The Civil War divided not just given their freedom. the Union but Missouri as well. “That was extremely unusu- al for a town this size,” Flink BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR says. Missouri’s entanglement in the Civil War began 40 years A STATE DIVIDED earlier, before it was even That history left Missouri a state. In 1820, Congress undecided about which side to RACHEL COWARD/Missourian passed the Missouri Compro- take when the Civil War broke William Berry, Civil War Commitee chairman of the Boone County Historical Society, stands next to a monument listing all mise, which regulated slav- out. A state convention was 140 soldiers from Boone County who died in the Civil War. Berry has been studying and speaking about the Civil War for ery in new lands that were called to determine the state’s the last 20 years. part of America’s vast expan- formal allegiance. sion to reach some balance “Missouri voted 98-1 not to Missouri under the control of Anderson led forces who approximately 27,000 Missouri “colored infantry” or “colored between pro-slavery and secede,” Flink says. Union forces, and he appointed destroyed railroad bridges, residents, both military and horse artillery.” anti-slavery interests. Its hope, as a border state, a pro-Union governor. telegraph lines, Union supply civilian, were killed. Each Memorial Day, Berry According to the compro- was to remain neutral. But an The exiled state government lines and even some towns. The Civil War at home gets students from nearby mise, Maine would be admit- incident in St. Louis set off retreated but wasn’t finished. “They could attack and run, The story of Missouri’s Grant Elementary School to ted to the Union as a free a chain reaction that quickly It voted to secede, adding to the and by nightfall they’d be back unique entanglement in the place flags on the black sol- state and any territories drew Missouri into the grow- conflict within the state and in their homes,” Berry says. Civil War is the one Berry is diers’ graves. But his research extending north of the 36-30’ ing conflict. making Missouri the only state On one front, Missouri resi- helping tell in the new exhibit into their fuller stories is hin- parallel, commonly known as In May 1861, Missouri Gov. with two sitting governors and dents fought the occupying at the Boone County Histori- dered by a lack of records. the Mason-Dixon Line, would Claiborne Jackson called up representatives in both the Union forces. On another front, cal Society. That exhibit will There are some white Union remain free. The only excep- the Missouri State Militia for Union and Confederate govern- Missouri residents fought in deepen and expand over the soldiers in the cemetery as tion was Missouri, which was drills in St. Louis. A Union ments. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, skirmishes against soldiers next four years as it adds infor- well, but not many. admitted into the Union in captain named Nathaniel Lyon Union Gen. John Charles Fre- and guerrillas from both sides. mation about Missouri’s role. A larger mystery drives Ber- 1821 as a slave-holding state. thought this was an attempt mont declared martial law On a third front, they fought “Our goal is to move from ry’s continued search to find But tensions over the eco- to take over the large federal across the entire state. amongst themselves. In the 1861 through the war,” says where soldiers from Boone nomics and morality of slav- arsenal located there, so he “Martial law and securing Guitar family, brothers David Flink, the curator. County were buried during the ery continued to grow. In captured the state troops. Riots the Missouri River at Boonville and Odon chose opposing sides. Berry’s fascination with Mis- Civil War. 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska broke out, during which Lyon’s forced Confederate soldiers David fought for the Confed- souri’s Civil War history has “We know there were these Act repealed the Missouri Union forces were blamed for underground,” Flink says. eracy, and Odon fought for the lately been focused on what fights and people died, but we Compromise and allowed ter- killing civilians. In a tense But underground didn’t Union. Slavery remained legal happened to former slaves who don’t know where they’re bur- ritories to determine the sta- meeting between Lyon and mean inactive. For the next but divided the state, towns fought for the Union. During ied,” Berry says. Sometimes, tus of slavery within their Jackson, Lyon declared war on two years, Missouri was beset and even families. the Civil War, Union forces Union soldiers were disin- borders. People on both sides Missouri. by numerous minor skirmish- “What they were defending practiced “compensated eman- terred and relocated to a fed- of the issue began pouring “The action in St. Louis, es rather than full-on battles. was their rights as individu- cipation,” Berry says; farmers eral cemetery. “It’s not easy into Kansas, attempting to followed by the declaration Unlike the Union forces, Con- als,” Flink says. “Missouri was who swore a loyalty oath to the work. You get a lot of stories, stuff the ballot box to bring of war, forced a lot of peo- federate soldiers were gener- defending itself as a state, Union were paid $300 for each but they’re just that.” ple to take a second look at ally unorganized and often defending itself from what they slave. Those slaves were then But what intrigues Berry Kansas into the Union accord- NICK SCHNELLE/Missourian ing to their views. Union aggression,” Flink says. resorted to guerrilla tactics. perceived as a Union attack.” given their freedom and sent even more are not the sto- “This was such a provocative They camped in the woods The desire was to remain off to war. ries of local men who died in TOP: Civil War-era photographs are on display at the Boone The violent clashes between County Historical Society. Soldiers carried daguerreotypes, pro- and anti-slavery forces action. Many people who had and waited for directions from neutral; Missouri even went so There are 31 slaves-turned- the war, but those of the men earned Kansas the nickname voted against secession were higher-ranking officials. far as to raise its own defense soldiers buried in the Columbia who survived, put the conflict ambrotypes and tintypes of family members with them. “Bleeding Kansas.” Guerrilla enraged.” “The guerrillas were just bonds. But the brutal conflict Cemetery and 52 Confederate behind them and came back ABOVE: Reproduction Confederate cavalry caps are on raids back and forth between Leaders of the state govern- farm boys,” Berry says. “They around and within its borders soldiers. The black soldiers are home to Columbia. display at the Boone County Historical Society. They were both factions established the ment fled St. Louis to Jeffer- felt very strongly, and they couldn’t be ignored. Many buried in no particular order in “The thing I find most inter- made of wool, with a leather visor and brass hardware. border war tradition between son City, and then to Boonville were Confederate through and men, including residents of what used to be the segregated esting when studying these Kansas and Missouri. when they determined Jeffer- through.” Boone County, joined Confed- section in the south end of the people is how they persevered,” Missouri was also conflict- son City was “not defensible,” Guerrilla fighters such as erate or Union forces. In Boone cemetery. The headstones are Berry says. “They were tough, ed within its own borders. Flink says. Lyon followed, William Quantrill, the infa- County, 140 men lost their lives small and unremarkable and and not only did they manage LEFT: A slave cabin still stands on the Burwood Plantation near Pilot Early settlers were farmers attacking Boonville on June mous leader of Quantrill’s serving in the Civil War. By are carved with the soldiers’ to survive the war, but they Grove in Cooper County, Mo. Between six and seven such cabins from Kentucky, Virginia and 17, 1861. His victory placed Raiders, and “Bloody” Bill the time it was finally over, names and company, such as managed to rebuild.” were on the property in the mid-1800s for house slaves, according to current owner Vicki McCarrell. The plantation was founded and the first house built on the property by Henry Rubey Walker in 1826. His son built the Queen Anne-style home that still survives in the 1880s. Tours of the home are available by appointment by calling Vicki THE CIVIL WAR IN OUR BACKYARD McCarrell at 660-834-3406. CLAYTON STALTER/Missourian

or those interested in learning more about the Civil Boone County Courthouse Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site, Battle of Boonville, 18000 Rocheport Road The plaza surrounding the courthouse contains two monuments to Civil War South Providence Road veterans. The “Rebel Pebble” is a reddish-colored stone honoring Confederate The Jewell Cemetery contains the graves of George After Union Capt. Lyon declared war on Missouri, pro-secession Gov. Claiborne Jackson and War, there are many places to visit in and near soldiers. It was previously located at the intersection of Ninth Street and Con- Jewell and his descendants, and his brother-in-law, Sterling Price, the commander of the Missouri State Guard, retreated to Boonville, via Jeffer- ley Avenue before being moved to the courthouse. former Missouri Gov. Charles H. Hardin, a secession- son City. Lyon attacked at Boonville and won, securing the Missouri River for the Union and Columbia. Here are a few to get you started. ist sympathizer. The Jewells were a prominent family keeping Missouri from officially seceding. A monument outside the Boonville Correctional A second monument lists the names of 140 Boone in Missouri, and George’s son, William Jewell, was a Facility describes the Battle of Boonville, and both Union and Confederate graves can be F County men who died in the war – 99 for the Confed- mayor of Columbia before the Civil War. Also buried found in the Boonville Cemetery. A re-enactment of the Battle of Boonville is scheduled for IN COLUMBIA: eracy and 41 for the Union. Although many skirmish- with the Jewell family are some of their slaves, whose June 17 to 19 this summer. es and battles occurred in mid-Missouri, “Columbia graves are marked by small, unmarked blocks. This as a town didn’t suffer much at all,” Berry says. But, was a common practice of slave-owning families. The Columns in Francis Quadrangle at MU “there were way more Boone and Columbia men who died in the Civil War than in any other war.” Forty- Massacre and Battle of Centralia, Rangeline Road Federal soldiers commandeered Academic Hall, MU’s first building, and used it five Boone County men died in World War I, 121 in as a barracks during the war. According to one story, some Confederate guerril- World War II and 30 in Vietnam. After Goslin’s Lane, Anderson and his men headed for Centralia. The resulting Massacre las were jailed at the Boone County Courthouse, five blocks to the north on what NEAR COLUMBIA: and Battle at Centralia on Sept. 27, 1864, was one of the last and worst battles in Missouri’s is now Eighth Street. “Supposedly, the federal infantry fired on them from Aca- The columns from the old Boone County Courthouse played an important role Civil War history. Once they arrived in Centralia, Anderson’s men looted the town and demic Hall,” says William Berry, Civil War Committee in Columbia’s Civil War history, too. Through 1864, slaves were still being auc- killed 22 Union soldiers who had just arrived by train. More Union troops arrived soon chairman of the Boone County Historical Society. But tioned on the steps of the courthouse. The Emancipation Proclamation, signed Mount Zion Church, Hallsville, corner of East after the massacre and were lured into a trap set by Anderson and other bushwhackers in Berry is doubtful that Civil War-era guns could shoot by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, specifically excluded border Mount Zion Church Road and Flynt Lane the area. More than 120 Union soldiers died, and only three of Anderson’s men died. Most that distance. states such as Missouri. of the men’s bodies were sent home, but many were buried in a mass grave near the battle- field. In late fall of 1861, a skirmish broke out between Union and Confederate sol- Fifty years after the war, reparations were paid for the “Lincoln never freed a single slave in Missouri,” Berry says. “The Missouri diers at Mount Zion Church. The soldiers fought in and around the church Today, the Centralia battlefield is a 23.2-acre park. There are two monuments, honoring damage the Union soldiers inflicted on Academic Hall, slaves weren’t freed until 1865.” According to Berry, slaves made up 25 per- cemetery until the Confederates retreated, leaving their supplies and their both the Confederate and Union soldiers. The park hosts academic events throughout the Berry says. By then, the building was gone, destroyed cent of Boone County’s population around the time of the Civil War, though dead behind. The Confederate soldiers were buried in a mass grave, but were year and has been the site of several archaeological digs. There are also monuments and by a fire in 1892, leaving behind only the columns. few landowners or farmers owned more than four or five slaves. individually interred a few days later by Susan Flynt, a prominent member of trail markers throughout Centralia to document the massacre and battle. the church. She had her slaves dig up the soldiers and bury them in individual graves, marking them with footstones. Though there are initials on the foot- stones, the remains in the graves are unidentified. The church was burned later Columbia Cemetery, 30 E. Broadway in the war by Union troops as a punishment for harboring Confederate guerril- Boone County Historical Society, Walters-Boone las. It has since been rebuilt. Jefferson City National Cemetery, 1024 E. McCarty St. County Museum, 3801 Ponderosa St. The Columbia Cemetery contains the graves of 31 black Union soldiers and 52 Confederate soldiers. The Jefferson City National Cemetery contains the graves of many Union soldiers, several The Boone County Historical Society has planned a progressive exhibit that “There are not many (white) federal soldiers from of whose remains are unidentified. There is also a mass grave of some of the Union soldiers will continue to change and grow over the next four years, spanning the entire Boone County,” Berry says. Black Union soldiers Goslin’s Lane, 8536 Route J, Rocheport from the Massacre of Centralia, who were disinterred from the battle site and relocated to length of the Civil War. The museum contains examples of Civil War-era cloth- are located at the south end of the cemetery. Each the national cemetery — a common practice after the Civil War. Confederate soldiers were ing and personal artifacts, weapons and slave schedules, as well as a diorama of their headstones is marked with a U.S. shield, Guerrilla fighter “Bloody” Bill Anderson and his men attacked a Union wagon not allowed to be buried in the national cemetery; their graves can be found in the nearby of a Confederate soldier’s campsite. There is also a collection of letters from the soldier’s name, the soldier’s company and some- train here on Sept. 23, 1864. The men looted the wagons and killed 12 Union City Cemetery. Henry Martin Cheavins, a Confederate guerrilla soldier. times the rank. soldiers, along with three black teamsters. A wayside sign marks the spot off Route J, outside Rocheport. The museum is free to the public 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.