{"id":3065,"date":"2024-06-04T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:17:00","slug":"john-p-gatewood-the-long-haired-red-bearded-beast-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3065","title":{"rendered":"John P. Gatewood, The Long-Haired, Red-Bearded Beast of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pemberton Gatewood was a notorious Confederate bushwhacker whose tale is both brutal and riveting. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Fentress County, Tennessee, in the 1840s, Gatewood&#8217;s life took a dark turn after a Union attack on his family led him to abandon the Confederate army and become a guerrilla fighter. Leading his own ruthless unit in north Georgia and known as the long-haired, red-bearded beast, Gatewood left a trail of chaos and violence, driven by his thirst for revenge after the brutal assault on his family. <\/p>\n<p>Gatewood&#8217;s fate after the war remains shrouded in mystery, with unconfirmed tales of his death in California in 1875. <\/p>\n<p>John Pemberton Gatewood, a figure whose story is one of the Stories of Appalachia.  <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g0wQkwT4jfI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch our YouTube channel @StoriesOfAppalachia and listen to the Stories podcast on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform. Don&#8217;t forget to subscribe for more captivating tales from the heart of Appalachia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pemberton Gatewood was a notorious Confederate bushwhacker whose tale is both brutal and riveting. Born in Fentress County, Tennessee, in the 1840s, Gatewood&#8217;s life took a dark turn after a Union attack on his family led him to abandon the Confederate army and become a guerrilla fighter. Leading his own ruthless unit in north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"John Pemberton Gatewood, The Long-Haired, Red-Bearded Beast of Georgia","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-civil-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-Nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}