Fort Loudoun Winchester Virginia
Designed & built by Colonel George Washington
1756-1758
Also related events 1752-1764 before and after French & Indian War
Untold Stories by Bill Hunt
Bill Hunt writes about this massacre in his story, "No Mercy That Day part IV"
And here's a sample from the link below:
"Just miles from Gnadenhutten, the militia found the mutilated and scalped remains of Mrs. Wallace, and one of her infant daughters. The scene was grisly to the extreme!
The bodies of Jane Wallace and her daughter, Sarah Jane, had been stripped completely naked, tomahawked, and scalped. While still alive the two victims had been mutilated savagely.
The Indians had trimmed two saplings of branches, and at the height of five feet, were cut off and sharpened at the standing ends.
The mother and daughter were then thrust down over the sharpened stakes, face up. Both the anal and vaginal cavities had been impaled.
On the evening of the 6th, Lt. Col. Williamson, and his men were approaching the outskirts of Gnadenhutten. They were just a few miles behind the war party, . . . ."
Source:
No Mercy That Day part IV
No Mercy That Day part III
No Mercy That Day part II
No Mercy That Day part I
No Mercy That Day 8 March 1782
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Wikipedia does not include the hideous details of Bill Hunt's research in the link above.
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This is from Wikipedia:
The Lenape allies of the British sought revenge for the Gnadenhutten massacre. When General George Washington heard about the massacre, he ordered American soldiers to avoid being captured alive. He feared what the hostile Lenape would do to captured Americans.
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Washington’s close friend William Crawford was captured while leading an expedition against Lenape at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Crawford had not been at Gnadenhutten but was killed in retaliation.[8]
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Captain Charles Bilderback had participated in the Gnadenhutten massacre and was a survivor of the June 1782 Crawford expedition. Seven years later, in June 1789, he was captured by hostile Lenape in Ohio, who killed him.[9]
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David Williamson, the officer who led the Gnadenhutten massacre, was also a survivor of the Crawford expedition.
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In 1814, decades after the war, he died in poverty.
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The leader of the Home Guard at the time was Captain John Hay who on November 24 led an attack on the Delaware.
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In 1810, Tecumseh reminded future President William Henry Harrison, “You recall the time when the Jesus Indians of the Delawares lived near the Americans, and had confidence in their promises of friendship, and thought they were secure, yet the Americans murdered all the men, women, and children, even as they prayed to Jesus?”[10
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnadenhutten_massacre#Aftermath
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