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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