# Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/
- Also known as: the Reynolds guerrillas
- Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3469, -104.6939 (from a cited description)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Five captured members of Jim Reynolds's Confederate guerrilla band, being taken from Denver to Fort Lyon by Company A, 3rd Colorado Cavalry, were shot 'at the old Russellville townsite' in early September 1864; the guard said they tried to escape (Rocky Mountain News, Sept. 9, 1864). The News's account is the soldiers' version.

## Where it was

Placed just east of the Russellville marker: the News says only that it happened 'at the old Russellville townsite', a few miles beyond the California Ranch on the road south.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 0.2 mi west
- [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 0.3 mi west
- [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi southwest
- [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.4 mi west
- [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.4 mi northwest
- [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.4 mi northwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.