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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The subject of vaccination. (search)
The Palmyra massacre.
We take the following article from the London Times, of the 14th ult. It is a scathing denunciation of the late foul massacre of ten Confederate prisoners at Palmyra, Missouri, by order of Gen. McNiell;
War is a horrible scourge, but it is not in the heat of conflict that its horror becomes impressed on the mind of the brave man. In the will excitement of that hour there is no place for pity.
We are always told that it is after the battle and when standing among the dying and the wounded that that the great reaction comes.
It is then that fierce warriors become merciful and that deadly enemies take on themselves the offices of good Samaritans.
The dreadful duty of slaughter is zealously performed even by the best men when their hand is in and their blood is up!
but to kill in cold blood, and take the lives of unresisting men; to put to death captives who have surrendered on promise of quarter — this is the most fearful necessary which could fall up