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Hunter said the group has done its “very best” to verify the information that will go on the monument. Some mistaken lore also has been cleared up along the way. A suggestion that the Crawford brothers were very young was discounted, she said. They were in their 20s, and Stephen Crawford served out of the Cave Spring school with their father, J.R. Crawford. The association has arranged for headstones from the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Crawford brothers to be placed in the Cave Spring cemetery. The monument “will be for more than those people who died,” Weldon said. “It will be a memorial to the Cave Spring and Bowers Mill families and the Union militia stationed there.” There was a strong Union presence in that area, so other people from the outside would move there for protection. Horrors of war Hunter said she learned that one soldier, Levy Sly, had come home to the Cave Spring area to recuperate from the measles. She said Southern guerrillas dragged him from his bed and shot him, and his brother managed to sneak his body away so it could be buried. “They never knew when guerrilla attacks would come,” she said. Weldon said the Civil War “was particularly horrible in Missouri.” “There were acts of beheading,” he said. “Black soldiers were clubbed to death. And one method of killing was to pour gunpowder in the ear canal and light it to explode.” Conditions also were terrible for civilians at home, Hunter said. “They fought for what they believed in and paid the ultimate sacrifice,” she said. “That’s why we want to recognize them.” Stone for the monument was donated by Locarni Marble of Carthage. Association members are working to raise the approximately $2,500 it will take to carve the 44 names into the stone. Hunter said the association will accept donations, and residents also may “adopt” the name of a soldier whose name will appear on the monument. “We’ll have a book out there with their name behind that of the soldier, so they will have some ownership of the site,” she said. “And a family or more than one person could adopt a name.” She said some residents may sponsor the names of their ancestors who moved to the area just after Jasper County became a county. 
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