“Will not God eternally damn his murderers?”
“We might dwell for hours on the incidents connected with this most frightful butchery of ancient or modern ages.”
“But why go on?”
“The murder was done!”
“The Confederate government talked of demanding the murderer McNeil.”
“Then a ‘memorial’ was gotten up, and signed by two thousand Missourians, recommending the heaven-earth-and-hell-accursed old monster, on account of his Palmyra massacre, to special favor and he was promoted to a brigadier-generalship.”
14. Lawrence
Disguised as a cattle trader, Lieutenant Fletcher Taylor, now a prominent and wealthy citizen of Joplin, Mo., spent a week at the Eldridge house in Lawrence, Kansas, from which place had gone out the Jayhawkers who in three months just previous had slain 200 men and boys, taken many women prisoners, and stolen no one knows how many horses.