Events of 27 or 28 Apr 64,  according to "O.R." Series 1, Vol. 34, Part III, p. 328 
and Ward L. Schrantz' "Jasper County, Missouri, in the Civil War," publ. 1923 at 
Carthage, MO by the Carthage Press pages 168-170. These accounts say Capt. T. J. 
Stemmons with 13 men of Company C of 7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia from 
Cave Springs chased Kinch West and his band of 40 Rebel recruits or guerrillas near 
Preston, north Jasper County until they killed five of the band (including one of 
Kinch West's brothers) and wounded Kinch himself and the band scattered. The action 
came about when West and band seized horses and mules from local men threshing grain. 
Stemmons himself was helping the threshers and he set out in pursuit and got some of 
the militiamen from Cave Springs to help him.