SOURCE / archival record
Report on the Hamburg disturbance
About this source
Stone's report as reproduced in the August 8, 1876 Congressional Record—Senate at printed page 5316; Stone was not an eyewitness and said the inquest remained unfinished.
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Where this source is used
Bradley's six-execution account conflicts with Stone's report of five prisoners deliberately killed; the exact count and identities require reconciliation rather than an uncontested project total.
- qualifies · printed p. 5316
Stone's July 1876 report states that five prisoners were deliberately killed and three wounded.
- supports · Congressional Record—Senate, August 8, 1876, printed p. 5316
The consulted accounts do not support describing every Black victim as a militia-company member: Stone identifies James Cook as killed while leaving the armory and says he was not a company member, and he distinguishes nonmembers among those captured.
- supports · printed p. 5316, Cook and captive-membership passages