Union Depredations
Location: near Hunnewell, in southeast Shelby or northeast Monroe County
Date: 20 Jul 1862
Sources: Columbia, Boone County, "Missouri Statesman" of 1 Aug 1862 and Griffin Frost's "Camp and Prison Journal" originally published in 1867 and recently reprinted by Camp Pope Bookshop, Iowa City, IA, p. 296
Decription: Some Company C troopers of 11th Cav MSM from Hudson demanded dinner at a house not far from Salt River then vandalized the house. Next they took James Lasley, James or Joel Ridgeway, and James Price about 100 yards from the house and
shot and stabbed them to death. The newspaper version quotes the militiamen to say they were fired upon from ambush and shot their captives when they tried to escape during the excitement. The 1860 MO Census index shows Lasley families in north-central Monroe County and Ridgways in northwest Monroe County and other nearby places.