The money was in twenty-dollar pieces, and the payment was made by drawing up the regiment in the customary two ranks, and giving a twenty-dollar piece to each man in the front rank.
Three-fourths of those killed or wounded in that regiment were of the front rank.

The Rebels learned of this payment, and made rigid search of all whom they found on the field.

Nearly a year after the battle a visitor to the ground picked up one of these gold coins.
During the battle several soldiers from St.Louis and its vicinity recognized acquaintances on the opposite side.

These recognitions were generally the occasion of many derisive and abusive epithets.

In the Border States each party had a feeling of bitter hostility toward the other.