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What happen at Gnadenhutten ohio?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: During the American Revolution, a miltia unit from Washington, Pennsylvania set out after an Indian raiding party that had kidnapped the wife and daughter of one of its soldiers. They never caught up with the raiding party but they found the naked bodies of the two women. They had been impaled (killed by having a long stake pushed up through the anus and left in a standing position with the stake upright in the ground).
When they arrived at Gnaddenhutten, they may have found the women's clothing in the possession of the Indians who lived there. They had been Christianized by Moravian missionaries who were not there at the time.
The Indians fed them dinner and treated them well but they then tied them up and locked them in a cabin. They allowed the Indians to sing hymns and pray through the night. In the morning they beat, stabbed and slashed all the Indians to death.
The man who had lost his wife and daughter cried for them as he killed Indians. When he was too tired to kill anymore, he was still crying because his killing hadn't made him feel any better.
One young Indian man got loose and made a break for it. From the cabin he ran past the commander and a soldier towards the Tuscarawas river. The banks are steep there, about a six to eight foot drop off, I would guess and he would have been able to run hidden for some distance. The commander made no attempt to stop him but the soldier shot him dead.
Then they burned down the cabin. Two small Indian children escaped through the bars in the basement window. The boy grew up and would have seizures. He had one while alone in a canoe and drowned.
The commander, a lieutenant colonel, had done nothing to try to control his men. Neither he nor any of the men were ever punished.
When the soldiers got home they never discussed what happened. In his old age, one of the last surviving soldiers frequently got drunk and would talk about it, though.
You can still see the mound of earth that marks the mass grave.