Killed by Federal troops.
Monument in the cemetery erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.
"This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". . Source: MO-CW Mail List- Bruce Nichols- refer: 1937 Audrain County history, page 84; "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.
Monument in the cemetery erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.
"This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". . Source: MO-CW Mail List- Bruce Nichols- refer: 1937 Audrain County history, page 84; "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.
Killed by Federal troops.
Monument in the cemetery erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.
"This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". . Source: MO-CW Mail List- Bruce Nichols- refer: 1937 Audrain County history, page 84; "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.
Monument in the cemetery erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.
"This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". . Source: MO-CW Mail List- Bruce Nichols- refer: 1937 Audrain County history, page 84; "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.
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