Stories of Appalachia The Civil War Tinker Dave Beaty, Union Guerrilla/Outlaw

Tinker Dave Beaty, Union Guerrilla/Outlaw

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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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