Bas Shaw
Bas Shaw was a Union Soldier in the American Civil War, captured by John Kirkland's "bushwhackers" and killed by his captors enroute to a jail in Asheville, NC, near the end of the war. He is buried where he fell, just off present-day US-129 (Tail of the Dragon) in Tennessee.
The stone-covered grave suggests he was buried quickly and unceremoniously. No funeral, no six foot grave. The present-day monument would have been a later installation.
The Bas Shaw story is a chilling humanization of the horror of family pitted against family on either side of the North-South conflict.
Bas Shaw was John Kirkland's uncle by marriage. Shaw's two sons (John Kirkland's first cousins) had already been killed by Kirkland's Raiders. Later, Kirkland's brother would be killed in a skirmish in which Shaw participated. Finally Shaw was killed under his nephew's watch.
We will never know who pulled the trigger. But Shaw's widow, Rebecca Kirkland Shaw, went to her grave knowing her husband and two sons had been killed by her sister's son.