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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The murders in Missouri--pages from a book of horror. (search)
.'s wife, saying , as he tossed a Minie ball cartridge to her, "We put eight like that through him." He was a Confederate soldier, who had surrendered to regularly licensed Federal bandits. Col. McCullough--a brave, chivalric, and noble man — was hunted day and night until found — and then butchered without warning and without mercy. Hon. Robert Smart, Judge of the Lafayette Judicial Circuit, who had left his home in independence that he might dwell in peace with his family in Saline county was also hunted down by these cutthroats. He had not been connected with the rebellion — he had left his business only because the civil courts could not be held — he was endeavoring to live quietly in the seclusion of a country home. Yet night after night and day after day the armed minions of Lincoln searched his residence and his premises. Every hour was to him one of terror. At length he was found in the yard near his residence. No sooner was he found then a valley of balls whi