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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Barbarities of Tories in Tennessee (search)
n men, were sent to Indian Creek, Tenn., and stationed as Presley Blankenship's house. They had been there but a few days when on last. Wednesday, Major Rirk, (Federal,) commanding 1st N. C. regiment, (tories,) consisting of men from this immediate country, together with Laurell men, dashed upon Lieut. Duyck, killing one and capturing four prisoners. Duyck himself escaped.--They shot the prisoners upon the spot, viz: Marion Kamsey, Reuben Woodard, Coleman Justice, and a man by the name of Sullivan. After they killed the prisoners they strippen them. One man (Woodard) struggled an hour or two, and they placed a gun against his head in the presence of his father, an old man, and blew his brains out.--They then proceeded to Blankenship's house and murdered him and his son, who were not soldiers. They then took his horses and put them in his wagon, or rather hitched them to it, and loaded his wagon out of his house, and drove his cows off from his children. Lieut. Duyck belongs to th