The Civil War came to East Tennessee in the form of Confederate raids against the mostly Union sympathizers who lived there. Today's tale recounts a story told about one such raid which cost the life of a resident of Carter's Valley.

His spirit demanded justice and got it...through his hand, brutally severed from his body by the Rebel raiders.

Today we tell that tale.

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