Union War Crimes / Northeast Missouri

Digitization of archives has opened more opportunities for information than one could ever imagine. Tonight I was browsing through the Confederate Scrap-Bo ok and stumbled upon a Union war crime that occured in Northeast Missouri.

A report of a Colonel Owens who was executed without trial despite the fact that he was a commissioned officer in the Second Division, Missouri State Guard.

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