A Professor at my university wrote about beheadings and one research article I read was about a white man captured and tortured and then killed by the “Native Americans.”
They burned the top of his scalp off with hot coals. They held his feet against a flat shovel that had been heated by fire. They cut into his arms and pulled out his tendons one by one. Women of the tribe were tasked with keeping him alive and awake all night before the next day’s tortures.
After he finally died he was beheaded and his head was paraded around the cheering, excited crowd of the “Native Americans.”
Check out the short story “Lost Face” by Jack London.
Several narrated stories from the French & Indian war on you-tub. One particular one comes from a lone survivor of Colonials under Col. William Crawford (the lone survivor escaped and made it all the way back to a long distant fort to tell the tale).
Crawford endured days of torture, burning, cuttings, scalping, and finally burned alive, testified by this survivor.
The tale is riveting and horrifying. Another history piece comes from the writing of Hank Messick (famous for his biography of Meyer Lansky, and many other organized crime history writing as a journalist.), born in Happy Valley, NC (site of Rev. War General Lenoir’s preserved home).
The book : “King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge Mountain Men in the American Revolution” describes the OverMountain Men, the winning of the battle of King’s Mountain by backwoodsmen, led by Sevier of TN— and the destruction of the entire command and commander of Brit Major Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Regiment of Foot. A truly gripping accurate historical rendering of the events before during and after. An All American battle that was for certain.