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3 unusual facts about Bob Benge


Bob Benge

In one of his early raids, in spring, 1777 he is said to have captured two women while operating around Fort Blackmore, Virginia.

There, Benge negotiated the surrender of the garrison and its defenders with the promise of safe passage; Doublehead and his band violated the parole by immediately attacking and killing them all, men, women, and children, indiscriminately, as soon as they were outside the small fort, over the pleas of Benge, John Watts, and James Vann.

Soon "Captain Bench" and his half-brother The Tail and cousin Tahlonteeskee joined with their uncle John Watts in the Chickamauga wars.



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