Blake Sasse, the great-great-grandson of Capt. Louis Benecke, of Company I, began researching the 49th Missouri in the early 1990s while working part-time in the library of the State Historical Society of Missouri.
If you would like to contribute information to the preparation of the book or wish to be notified when it is published, email him at blake @49thmissouri.com [remove the space]