Record #:

10726

Author(s):

Siler, Leon M.

Abstract:

Western North Carolinians, listening to the fury of public argument over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, hear distinct echoes of a similar, equally heated controversy that swirled up from the recesses of mountainous Madison County in 1863. In Madison County's Shelton Laurel 13 civilians, kneeling alongside Shelton Laurel creek, were shot by a Confederate firing squad commanded by Lt. Col. James A. Keith for suspicion of burglary and pillaging a Confederate depot at Marshall, the county seat.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 17, Feb 1970, p9-10, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Executions