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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The military Murders in St. Louis. (search)
The military Murders in St. Louis. The St. Louis papers are full of the details of the horrible massacre of the volunteers and citizens of that city, including women and children, by the United States soldiers and Germans. Capt. Lyon, who commanded the attacking forces, was accompanied by Frank P. Blair, Jr., who acted in conjunction with him. The St. Louis Herald describes the march of 6,000 or 7,000 men under Col. Lyon, to Camp Jackson, which was surrounded, soon after which Gen. Frost surrendered. The Herald then adds: After this had been done, a murderous assault was committed upon the 800 prisoners and the 10,000 or more of the curious spectators of the scene in the distance, which is without a precedent in brutality and atrocity in history or fiction, and which, it is to be hoped, will stand alone for all time. While the two regiments of the M. S. V. M. were thus standing before them unarmed, having given up their arms with tears in their eyes at the order of their