Elected officials and bureaucrats memorialize assertions that are not factual? That could certainly never happen. In any event, while the challenge is posed for Mr. Benedict to prove the negative, let's hear from those who have the proof for the positive. Those memorialized assertions are quite specific--even to the extent that the modern-day elected officials and bureaucrats know what Lane was thinking. Certainly there should be some primary source evidence to support those assertions--

1) Twelve male citizens sought to protect one of the banks from being looted and ultimately burned

2) General Lane arrested these citizens for treason

3) By way of a drumhead court-martial Lane appointed himself prosecutor and judge

4) Lane condemned the twelve to death

5) Lane mustered a makeshift firing squad, in which he himself took part

6) Lane murdered all but three of the twelve men, thinking all were dead….