Giles County, Tennessee
Record of Outrages
1866-1868
Excerpted from Record of Outrages, Head Quarters of Asst. Commissioner, Vol. 28 Tenn. Register of Outrages, Oct. 1865 - July 1868, courtesy of the Freedmen's Bureau Online.
Assailant: Michael DOUGHERTY. Injured: King PEDAN (col'd). Date: August 1866. Nature of attack: Wound. Comments: Warrant was issued against DOUGHERTY & fined $5.00 & costs.
Assailant: Capt. WHITFIELD. Injured: Wife of Chas. P. WHITFIELD (col'd). Date: July 5th, 1866. Nature of attack: Assault. Comments: Complaint was made to a Magistrate but nothing done.
Assailants: John GILLIAM, Jack KIETH & others. Injured: Dudley KIMBROUGH (col'd). Date: July 7, 1866. Nature of attack: Murder. Comments: The accused were held to bail in the sum of $6000.00 .
Assailant: John EZELL. Injured: Molly EZELL (col'd). Date: August 16th, 1866. Nature of attack: Assault. Comments: John EZELL pleaded guilty & was fined $2.00 and costs.
Assailant: Robert A. MITCHELL. Injured: Dolly WHIRLS. Date: August 23rd, 1867. Nature of attack: (blank). Comments: Robert MITCHELL was arrested & held to bail.
Assailant: Unknown. Injured: Child of A. BELL (col'd). Date: Sept 3, 1867. Nature of attack: Shot thru shoulders. Comments: The child being too young was unable to identify the villain.
Assailant: James BAILY. Injured: Margaret BAILY. Date: Sept 28, 1866. Nature of attack: Beat. Comments: Complaint was made before a Magistrate but nothing done.
Assailant: David REYNOLDS. Injured: Col'd woman. Date: Sept 15, 1866. Nature of attack: Assault. Comments: REYNOLDS was arrested & fined $25.00 by Esq. ABERNATHY.
Assailant: William KEELING. Injured: Caroline HASTINGS (col'd). Date: Sept 29, 1866. Nature of attack: Cut in head. Comments: KEELING was arrested & fined.
Assailant: Robert RHODES. Injured: Squire RIVERS (col'd). Date: Nov 7, 1867. Nature of attack: Killed. Comments: Robert RHODES was held on bail of $2000. Nothing done.
Assailant: William KENNEDY. Injured: Louis KENNEDY (col'd). Date: Nov 18, 1867. Nature of attack: Whipped. Comments: The parties making the assault were arrested & fined.
Assailants: Two white men unknown. Injured: Robert TAYLOR (col'd). Date: Sept 29, 1866. Nature of attack: Murder. Comments: No effort was made by civil authorities to find out who were the murderers.
Assailant: Lucius SUTTLE. Injured: James MARTIN (col'd). Date: Nov 26, 1866. Nature of attack: Shot at & beaten. Comments: Suttle was arrested and fined $50.00 and costs.
Assailants: George N. WRIGHT, Frank BENNET & John BELCHERTH. Injured: Harrison HUGHES (col'd). Date: August 1, 1866. Nature of attack: (blank). Comments: The parties not being identified nothing was done in the case.
Assailant: Seaborn JOINER. Injured: Lewis HUGHES. Date: March 23, 1866. Nature of attack: Murder. Comments: JOINER was arrested tried before Circuit Court & acquitted.
Assailants: Robbers & thieves. Injured: Morgan EDMUNDSON (col'd). Date: January 30, 1867. Nature of attack: Robbery. Comments: No arrest made in this case. The col'd man was robbed of $75.00.
Assailants: Ku Klux Klan. Injured: Stanhope BODY, George CRITTENDON, Walter SCOTT, Minty BURKLEY. Date: July 5, 1868. Nature of attack: Threatened to kill them. Comments: None.
Assailants: Ku Klux Klan. Injured: Minty BURKLEY. Date: July 5, 1868. Nature of attack: Killed. Comments: As the murder was committed by the Ku Klux Klan who travel in disguise no legal action has been taken as none of them could be recognized.
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