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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 11 (search)
Doc. 10.-execution of Porter's guerrillas. Palmyra (Mo.) courier account. Saturday last, the eighteenth of October, witnessed theife. It will be remembered by the reader that on the occasion of Porter's descent upon Palmyra, he captured, among other persons, an old anatify their desire for revenge. The opportunity came at last, when Porter took Palmyra. That the villains, with Porter's assent, satiated thPorter's assent, satiated their thirst for his blood by the deliberate and predetermined murder of their helpless victim, no truly loyal man doubts. When they killed himn, the following notice: Palmyra, Mo., Oct. 8, 1862. Joseph C. Porter: sir: Andrew Allsman, an aged citizen of Palmyra, and a non-cothis notice he caused to be placed in the hands of the wife of Joseph C. Porter, at her residence in Lewis County, who, it was well known, wasnication with her husband. The notice was published widely, and as Porter was in North-East Missouri during the whole of the ten days subsequ
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Bloody Leaf in the history of this War--ten lives for one. (search)
a favorable opportunity to gratify their desire for revenge. The opportunity came at last when Porter took Palmyra. That the villains, with Porter's assent, satiated their thirst for his blood by tPorter's assent, satiated their thirst for his blood by the deliberate and predetermined murder of their helpless victim, no truly loyal man doubts. When they killed him, or how, or where, we know not.--But that he was foully, ceaselessly, murdered, it is issued, after due deliberation, the following notice: Palmyra, Mo., Oct. 8, 1862. Joseph C. Porter — Sir: Andrew Allsman, an aged citizen of Palmyra, and a non-combatant, having been c A written duplicate of this notice he caused to be placed in the hands of the wife of Joseph C. Porter, at her residence, in Lewis county, who, it was well known, was in frequent communication with her husband. The notice was published widely, and as Porter was in Northern Missouri during the whole of the ten days subsequent to the date of this notice, it is impossible that, with all his va
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Evacuation of Manassas. (search)
ffence was this: A man named Allsman, formerly a soldier, and of late a spy upon his neighbors, whom he was regularly paid to keep watch upon and to denounce to the Yankee authorities, was seized and detained by a party of Confederate guerillas. There appears to be no proof whatever that he was put to death, although his employment as a spy upon his neighbors would amply justify such a measure of retaliation. Gen. McNeil, the Yankee commander in that quarter, forthwith wrote a note to Joseph C. Porter, in which he threatened that unless Allsman were returned by a certain hour he should proceed to execute ten Confederate prisoners then in his hands. This was done by an officer of the same Government, whose troops never enter any place without hurrying off to prison all the male inhabitants, old or young, who refuse to take the oath, and whose bastilles are crammed to suffocation with civilians from the Confederacy. The man not having been returned, the assassin proceeded to execute