During the Civil War, Confederate General John Crawford Vaughn with 100 men tracked Captain Goldman Bryson's newly enlisted Union Company through Tellico and Coker Creek on the Unicoi Turnpike. Vaughn had orders from Union General Braxton Bragg to track down and destroy Bryson's Company. On Oct. 27, 1863 Vaughn caught and attacked Bryson's unit at Evan's Mill on Beaver Dam Creek, about 10 miles from Murphy. Two of Bryson's men were killed there and 17 were captured. On the way back to Tellico some of the 17 were murdered in cold blood and their bodies were left along the trail. Most of the rest were shot near the base of the mountain on Tellico River, near the house of Dr. Hall. Bryson escaped back to Six Mile on Coker Creek but was trailed and killed there. Bryson's muster roll of his union men was taken from his body. The list of names was later used after the war by Thomas Boyd, Vaughn's brother-in-law and Regimental Adjutant from Mount Vernon, and Vaughn to defraud the Federal government out of more than $100,000 on fraudulent claims in the name of the men that Vaughn had killed.
During the Civil War, Confederate General John Crawford Vaughn with 100 men tracked Captain Goldman Bryson's newly enlisted Union Company through Tellico and Coker Creek on the Unicoi Turnpike. Vaughn had orders from Union General Braxton Bragg to track down and destroy Bryson's Company. On Oct. 27, 1863 Vaughn caught and attacked Bryson's unit at Evan's Mill on Beaver Dam Creek, about 10 miles from Murphy. Two of Bryson's men were killed there and 17 were captured. On the way back to Tellico some of the 17 were murdered in cold blood and their bodies were left along the trail. Most of the rest were shot near the base of the mountain on Tellico River, near the house of Dr. Hall. Bryson escaped back to Six Mile on Coker Creek but was trailed and killed there. Bryson's muster roll of his union men was taken from his body. The list of names was later used after the war by Thomas Boyd, Vaughn's brother-in-law and Regimental Adjutant from Mount Vernon, and Vaughn to defraud the Federal government out of more than $100,000 on fraudulent claims in the name of the men that Vaughn had killed.
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