Turned traitor to his own family and friends to help the invaders? I don’t wonder that they tried to kill him. Most people would do this to a family member that betrayed them to invaders.
Whoaaaaa! Are you seriously attacking my family?
1. Missouri was a BORDER STATE
2. Besides #1, anyone already residing in the South
when the CW broke out and chose to remain loyal to
the Union could not possibly be considered a traitor
to a cause they had NEVER professed loyalty to. Any
diehard Rebel can grasp that concept.
3. The official Confederate officer on site ORDERED
the local Confederate irregulars (neighbors) to
march the prisoners to a prison in Springfield, MO.
Instead, the local rebels took them down the road,
camped overnight and executed them in the morn. You
OK with that?
4. Sam Davis, son of Clemiel, managed to escape
although wounded. He never considered the “neighbors”
who murdered his father to be anything other than
“bushwhackers”. That is why he had no problem killing the
six or seven murderers. Sam’s father inlaw had been a
a Sgt in Clemiel’s Missouri Homeguard Co so when he
betrayed Clemiel etal he proved to be a real traitor
and so was dealt with by his son inlaw, Sam.
5. Clemiel Davis and his family were never invaders.
They had been in Southern Missouri since the 1840s.
Clemiel is among the honored Pioneers of Stone County.
Sam was never indicted for killing the bushwhackers.
He died in 1983 at the age of 83.
6. When word reached the family that Clemiel had
been killed Sam’s 15 year old brother, John Wesley
was sent to locate and retrieve Clemiel’s body.
He discovered his father, Clemiel, had been decapitated.
John Wesley Davis was my great grandfather.
Still think my family were traitors?
Whoaaaaa! Are you seriously attacking my family?
1. Missouri was a BORDER STATE
2. Besides #1, anyone already residing in the South
when the CW broke out and chose to remain loyal to
the Union could not possibly be considered a traitor
to a cause they had NEVER professed loyalty to. Any
diehard Rebel can grasp that concept.
3. The official Confederate officer on site ORDERED
the local Confederate irregulars (neighbors) to
march the prisoners to a prison in Springfield, MO.
Instead, the local rebels took them down the road,
camped overnight and executed them in the morn. You
OK with that?
4. Sam Davis, son of Clemiel, managed to escape
although wounded. He never considered the “neighbors”
who murdered his father to be anything other than
“bushwhackers”. That is why he had no problem killing the
six or seven murderers. Sam’s father inlaw had been a
a Sgt in Clemiel’s Missouri Homeguard Co so when he
betrayed Clemiel etal he proved to be a real traitor
and so was dealt with by his son inlaw, Sam.
5. Clemiel Davis and his family were never invaders.
They had been in Southern Missouri since the 1840s.
Clemiel is among the honored Pioneers of Stone County.
Sam was never indicted for killing the bushwhackers.
He died in 1923 at the age of 83.
6. When word reached the family that Clemiel had
been killed Sam’s 15 year old brother, John Wesley
was sent to locate and retrieve Clemiel’s body.
He discovered his father, Clemiel, had been decapitated.
John Wesley Davis was my great grandfather.
Still think my family were traitors?