Palmyra, Missouri Historic Marker. Reverse side of 95.1P.19
"Palmyra, called the handsomest City in Northern Missouri' by 1860 was settled largely by Southerners on lad ceded the U.S. by Iowa, Sauk, and Fox tribes. A monument at the courthouse honors victims of the infamous Palmyra Massacre of Oct. 18, 1862. By order of Union Col. John McNeil, Confederate prisoners were shot when Confederate John C. Porter could not return a captured pro-Union civilian."
