May 25, 1864

Civil War action was reported near Buckhorn (present-day St. James in Stone County). Confederate general Joseph Shelby and his men were marching from Clarksville (Johnson County) to Batesville (Independence County). In what is now Stone County, they marched through Richwoods and on to Buckhorn, where they met up with a group of “mountain boomers” under the command of Bill Williams. The men were Union and Confederate deserters and bushwhackers. General Shelby’s account states that forty-seven were killed and two captured by the Confederacy before Shelby’s men continued on toward Batesville.