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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Evacuation of Manassas. (search)
The Massacre in Missouri. We have forborne all remark upon the atrocious murders committed by the Yankee General, McNeil, in Missouri, until we could arrive at the exact truth. We published the statement of the enemy yesterday, softened, no doubt, to make the case as favorable to them as possible. Giving it all the credit which can possibly be claimed for it, it was one of the most cruel, unwarranted, and unprovoked murders which civilized warfare ever brought forth. To find anything li 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 d