I thought you all might get a bang out of a bio of Alf Bolin that is in a book called "Branded As Rebels" by Donald Hale and Joanne Eakin. They were and are (Don passed away) historians of Jackson County, MO. and border war/Quantrill researchers. They wrote this book compiled of bushwhackers, guerrillas, rebels, Confederates and so on. Here is the Bolin entry:
ALF BOLIN: A noted bushwhacker and rebel guerrilla who led a band of desperate men against the Federals and Union inhabitants along the Missouri/Arkansas border. He boasted of having killed 40 Union men. He was killed at the home of Myrtle Richards, wife of Jim Richards, who was one of Bolin's men, near Forsyth at Murder Rocks in Taney County, Missouri on February 1, 1863 by Private Zack Thomas, an Iowa soldier dressed as a rebel. A large reward had been offered for his capture. At this time, Bolin was on his own with several men. He was born in Stone County, Missouri near the present Ponce de Leon in December 1842. He joined Captain Sam Hildebrand in the Civil War. Bolin's head was cut off and later eaten by wild hogs. His body was buried near the Richard's home.
Source: "Borderland Rebellion" by Elmo Ingenthron, Branson, Missouri 1980I though that was interesting! So you might ask him during the next train robbery how he got his head back?!