11/11/62 Camp at Abbeville, Ms-The meeting in pursuance of adjournment having been prevented by the movement of the army, the meeting was held this evening at Gen Green's Hqs & fully attended. The meeting was called to order by the president & addressed by Dr. Kavanaugh & others, when the committee submitted the following preamble & resolutions, which were by the meeting unanimously & enthusiastically adopted, directing a copy respectfully submitted to the War Dept & these proceedings published in the Mobile Register & Memphis Appeal:
The committee appointed by a meeting of the officers of the 1st Bgde of Mo Vols to prepare suitable resolutions & such other papers & may be necessary to give a full expression of their sentiments in regard to the outrages committed upon our fellow-citizens in Mo by the authority & action of the Federal Army now in our State, in having 1 Capt & 9 Pvt's shot as a retaliation for the loss of 1 man said to be killed by our men, we beg leave to submit for the consideration of the officers of the Bgde the following preamble & resolutions:
Whereas it has come to the knowledge of the officers of this Bgde, through authentic sources, that on or about 10/18 last in the town of Palmyra, in the State of Mo, one Andy Allsman is said to have come to this death by being shot by some of the authorized Partisan Rangers of the CS Army; & whereas the perpetrator of this deed was demanded by one Gen McNeil, who was in command of the Federal forces at that time at Palmyra, & upon failing to deliver the Federal soldier to the military authorities aforesaid then it was declared that 10 CS prisoners than in their possession should be shot as a vindictive retaliation; & whereas the demands of the Federal Cdr were not complied with & the threatened vengeance carried into execution, by which Capt Thos A. Sidner & 9 Pvt's, good & loyal citizens & soldiers of the CS, were barbarously & inhumanly shot, in violation of all the laws & usages of civilized warfare:
Therefore, Resolved, that the officers of the 1st Bgde of Mo Vols, now encamped near Abbeville, in the State of Ms, & forming a part of the Army of the West, feel called upon to express their indignation at the unwarrantable & brutal conduct of the officers of the Federal Army in regard to the outrage here referred to, & take such action as may bring this case to the notice of the Gov't of the CS, & ask that some measures be adopted by the President that shall avenge the death of our fellow-soldiers & prevent the repetition of like outrages in future.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting Mo is still loyal to the South & true to the CS cause, & although when this war first broke out & before we could defend our soil & our homes the brutal invader of the North overran the whole State, garrisoned every important town, burned our houses, murdered our citizens, & committed every outrage known in the category of crime in his vain attempts to crush out our liberties, yet there are thousands who are forced by Federal authority to remain at home, & thousands who are in the army & have fought in every battle of war, who are still willing & anxious to strike & to continue to strike until the tyrannical border is driven back; & we respectfully ask the able & wise Chief Magistrate of the CS, not only for its bleeding thousands, who are imploringly looking to him for protection, but for its own sake, its great future, its boundless resources, & its magnificent dimensions, to extend to Mo the powerful aegis of its protection to bring its Partisan Rangers, its citizens, its thousands of true Southern men & women under the effects of the retaliatory measures of the Confederacy, as has been done in other States, so that our citizens soldierly shall be brutally murdered on its own soil & by their own firesides with impunity, & we will be satisfied to follow the Stars & Bars of the South until the last battle of this revolution is fought.
Resolved, that in the opinion of this meeting prompt & full retaliation is the only means that will effectually arrest the outrages so often committed by our enemy upon our soldiers & citizens, & any appeal made to his sense of justice or right would be wholly unavailing.
Resolved, That should the President adopt measures of retaliation on the army now in Mo or elsewhere during the war, we pledge ourselves to carry out such measures to the fullest extent should it ever fall in the line of our official duty.
Resolved that a copy of these proceedings be properly authenticated by the officers of this meeting & forwarded to the President of these CS, asking his serious attention to the subject-matter herein presented
Upon motion the meeting adjourned.
[M. E. Green,] President & R. S. Bevier, Sec
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