 It became known as the Cherry Valley massacre and was noted as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the Revolution . Three months later , in his journal entry for February 12 , 1779 , McKendry describes receiving a report from an Indian of William Stacy in captivity ; Stacy was apparently concerned to reassure his fellow soldiers : " the last he knew of Col. Stacy he was well and in good spirits , and told him not to mind it for it was only the fortune of war . " 
