The guerrillas who terrorized Missouri during the Civil War werecolorful men whose daring and vicious deeds brought them a celebrity neverenjoyed by the Federal soldiers who hunted them. Many books have been writtenabout William Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, George Todd, Tom Livingstonand other noted guerrillas. You have probably not heard of George Wolz, AaronCaton, John Durnell, Thomas Holston or Ludwick St. John. They served in Unioncavalry regiments in Missouri, where neither side showed mercy to defeated foes. They are just five of the anonymousthousands who, in the end, defeated the guerrillas and have been forgotten withthe passage of time. This is their story.