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The U.S. soldiers responded by shooting six of Anderson's men captured at a house in Rocheport the next day. Also, on September 24, Anderson attacked the pro-U.S. town of Fayette, but the attack failed. Thirteen of Anderson's men were killed, and more than 30 were wounded. Only one U.S. soldier was killed, with two wounded. [2]
Name Race Age Sex Date of execution Method County or Independent City Victim(s) Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White 44 M January 6, 1989 [a] Lethal injection: Cass [b] Karen Keeton John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White 32 M January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts [d] 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black 39 M May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 4
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Malvern College Old Malvernians are alumni of Malvern College, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private ...
Palmyra, Missouri, as of 1860. The Palmyra massacre is an incident that took place in Palmyra, Missouri on October 18, 1862, during the American Civil War, when ten Confederate prisoners of war were executed in reprisal for the abduction of a local Union supporter, Andrew Alsman.
However, most were hunted down and killed. [114] Anderson's men mutilated the bodies of the dead soldiers and tortured some survivors. [115] By the end of the day, Anderson's men had killed 22 soldiers from the train and 125 soldiers in the ensuing battle in one of the most decisive guerrilla victories of the entire war.
Union troops went to capture Gordon in November 1861 but were stopped in a brief skirmish at Bee Creek, in which two Federals were killed and Gordon and his men left after running out of ammunition. Gordon with 30 to 40 men captured Weston, Missouri, in early December and carried off two Federal soldiers as captives. They camped on the lawn of ...
Raheem Taylor, who was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children in Missouri in 2004, insisted he was in another state at the time. Missouri man who killed 4 ...
In December 1936, the 25-year-old was living with his wife five miles north of Duck Hill in Elliot, where he had recently contracted with 67-year-old Micajah Purnell Sturdivant—a white man from Vance—to be a sharecropper on Sturdivant's property. [3] Sturdivant's plantation was overseen by 25-year-old white man Howard Prestage. [34]