Solving a Civil War murder mystery
Bob Schmidt will have a book-signing for his latest book, Civil War Mysteries Solved: Murder of William Pickles and Prairie du Rocher Raid.
In this book, Schmidt, a historian from French Village who has written several books on the areas Civil War history, tries to straighten out some of the misinformation out there about the murder of William Pickles.
The book signing will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 27 at Bauhaus Kaffee in Farmington. The book is a continuation of Schmidts Civil War Justice in Southeast Missouri in 2010. This new book was published in June and is available through him for $25. For more information, call him at 573-358-7946.
He said the murder had more than a dozen witnesses but few discussed it and no one wrote of it.
As a result, misinformation, theory and myth have taken the place of fact, he said. It is these facts, all from wartime sources, that are told in the book.
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