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Sunday, 28 May 1865

The 8th Ohio Cavalry is ordered to seize and secure all Confederate arms known to exist in the interior of West Virginia, and to capture those who fail to surrender.

Seven Confederate soldiers--George R. Smith, Michael S. Barnhart, Hugh McGee, Nick Taylor, Jonas Myers, Rufus Holmes and Thomas Raney--arrive unarmed at Federal headquarters in the St. Charles Hotel in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in order to receive their paroles and go home to their families after four long years of hard warfare. Instead, they are bound, blindfolded and then shot on Bettis Street in front of the hotel. Two additional unnamed Confederates are wounded but live and three additional men are able to escape unharmed. A detachment of the 7th Kansas Cavalry, Company C--known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers"--approximately 45 in number, is responsible for the massacre.

Their gravestone at Cowan Cemetery reads: In Memory of Our Fallen Brothers, Murdered May 28, 1865. Tied, Blindfolded and Shot by U.S. Troops After They Had Surrendered.

Brevet Brigadier General George Spalding, 12th Tennessee Cavalry, USA, assumes command of the Federal District of North Missouri.

At 1400 hours the lookout on the CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, cries..."Sail ho!" Waddell orders the Russian ensign hoisted and the chase begins. The whaling bark Abigail is separated from the Shenandoah by an ice floe that keeps both vessels on a parallel course. Upon reaching open water, the Shenandoah strikes her Russian colors, raises the Confederate flag, and fires a blank cartridge. After boarding the Abigail, a Confederate officer informs Captain Ebenezer Nye that the CSN has crafted a treaty with the whales to dispose of their mortal enemies. The Shenandoah takes 36 prisoners, some of whom shipped, and cargo needed for an Arctic cruise. The Abigail is burned.
 
Sunday, 28 May 1865

The 8th Ohio Cavalry is ordered to seize and secure all Confederate arms known to exist in the interior of West Virginia, and to capture those who fail to surrender.

Seven Confederate soldiers--George R. Smith, Michael S. Barnhart, Hugh McGee, Nick Taylor, Jonas Myers, Rufus Holmes and Thomas Raney--arrive unarmed at Federal headquarters in the St. Charles Hotel in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in order to receive their paroles and go home to their families after four long years of hard warfare. Instead, they are bound, blindfolded and then shot on Bettis Street in front of the hotel. Two additional unnamed Confederates are wounded but live and three additional men are able to escape unharmed. A detachment of the 7th Kansas Cavalry, Company C--known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers"--approximately 45 in number, is responsible for the massacre.

Their gravestone at Cowan Cemetery reads: In Memory of Our Fallen Brothers, Murdered May 28, 1865. Tied, Blindfolded and Shot by U.S. Troops After They Had Surrendered.

Brevet Brigadier General George Spalding, 12th Tennessee Cavalry, USA, assumes command of the Federal District of North Missouri.

At 1400 hours the lookout on the CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, cries..."Sail ho!" Waddell orders the Russian ensign hoisted and the chase begins. The whaling bark Abigail is separated from the Shenandoah by an ice floe that keeps both vessels on a parallel course. Upon reaching open water, the Shenandoah strikes her Russian colors, raises the Confederate flag, and fires a blank cartridge. After boarding the Abigail, a Confederate officer informs Captain Ebenezer Nye that the CSN has crafted a treaty with the whales to dispose of their mortal enemies. The Shenandoah takes 36 prisoners, some of whom shipped, and cargo needed for an Arctic cruise. The Abigail is burned.

Thank you sir for the good read!
 
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