{"id":369,"date":"2025-12-16T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:00:34","slug":"devil-tom-duncan-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/devil-tom-duncan-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Devil&#8221; Tom Duncan in the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Devil&#8221; <strong>Tom Duncan<\/strong> and his guerrilla band achieved some notoriety through its marauding activities throughout the mountainous areas of the area. <strong>Riley McKamey<\/strong>, an ex-slave, was Devil <strong>Tom<\/strong>&#8216;s right-hand man as a leader of his gang&#8217;s atrocities. According to legend, <strong>Riley<\/strong> killed <strong>James Brummitt<\/strong>, then later <strong>Riley<\/strong> was killed by the <strong>Henry Gibson<\/strong> Gang.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) &#8220;Devil&#8221; Tom Duncan and his guerrilla band achieved some notoriety through its marauding activities throughout the mountainous areas of the area. Riley McKamey, an ex-slave, was Devil Tom&#8216;s right-hand man as a leader <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/devil-tom-duncan-in-the-civil-war\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,35,24,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-civil-war-history","category-families-individuals","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}