David Crockett Beaty was a farmer in Fentress County, Tennessee…until the start of the Civil War.
He became a guerrilla fighter in that war, on the side of the Union, with his most well-known rebel counterpart being Champ Ferguson, with whom he had a running war all its own.
Today we tell the story of Tinker Dave Beaty, Union guerrilla/outlaw.
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