The Palmyra (Missouri) Massacre: compulsory Union Colonel John McNeil, commanding the Second Missouri State Militia, orders the lynching of ten Missouri sovereign Citizens for their pro-Confederate sympathies.
Postscript: When Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, learned of this war crime, McNeil was promoted.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy, The South Was Right!, (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1994), 125-26, 284-85.
Palmyra massacre – Wikipedia
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