The horse thieves of Table Rock - Part 1 of 6

It was mid-November 1864. It was 159 years ago. A fine team of horses belonging to Andrew Fellers of rural Table Rock went missing. What happened next? We’ve all heard the story, but it is usually one sentence. Horse thieves were found and hanged. There’s more, much more. An epic story unfolded between then and Christmas 1864, the last Christmas of the Civil War. The story is so long that it…