| "Monroe County was no exception to the rest of rural
Missouri during the American Civil War. Two flags were bitter,
angry and groping for combat contact with each other. Two sporadic
threats from irregular armies." Porter Moss |
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| The deaths of James Price, Joel Ridgeway and James M.
Lasley on July 20, 1862: |
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Hand drawn map the Union Blockhouse, railroad, surrounding
cemeteries, etc.
- "Bloodshed on
North Fork soil; Civil War brings unsafe territories," by Porter
Moss for the Lake Gazette, 17 Feb 2021
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"Weathered gravestones lonely reminders of Civil War bushwhacking,"
Shelby County Herald, 26 August 1970
- "Great
Outrage," Missouri Republican, 1 August 1862
- "Killings Near
Salt River Bridge," (Editorial) 6 August 1862
- The
Natchez Daily Courier (Natchez, Mississippi), Sat., 4
October 1862
- Macon
Gazette, 23 July 1862
- "Three Rebels
Shot," Hannibal Herald, 24 July 1862
- "Death of
James Lasley," St. Joseph Herald, 27 July 1862
- "Shocking
Occurrence," Typed copy of article from a Paris, MO newspaper on
Lasley Clothing Co. letterhead
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War in Monroe County, MO: |
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