The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-03
THE 0uERRILLAs OF THE WAR
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 Te follow some federal historians. the reader would be led io behexe that every confederate who mounted a hofse should he la>>ed aS a guerrilla. Somc oi the ptof lamaiions issued hy federal gcnef,ls gave the intelligence tha, the south was overrun with bands of dcsperadoes. who killed every federal prisoner captured land m ambush for wagon trains. and had no ambition above murder and plundet One who hunts fot tho facts m the case will discover ,ha, the eenfedetaey had SO few of these bands that the number could be counted on ones fingers.
 Colonel loncs, oi Nuginia. was de- nounccd m lSf} as d guerrilla He had a full brigade oi cavalry and battery oi artillery, and took part Tn alnos, every battle tough, by Niuan and inn r~ Kos>,t wa hkew 'sc denounced by the same trle. and )et he commanded a respec table body of cavalry. took paI, n general battles. and there IS m proof that any of his men murdered pttsoneiA Morgan was called a guerrilla. and yet he was anything but ono
 olonel lohn Moshy and hIs band were for two years a terror to thc frd-rals m certain disiucts af Auginia He was called a guerrilla. and his men urre sho, off their horses as soon as apiured Naturally enough he rr,alIated. but when historans affirm that Mosby murdered all his prisoners they go entirely LOO fr ct anyone NsmIne the hles of the Rieh- mond dalies from the sprng of ts6i to the last days oi the Wal and he slll hnd hundreds of such paragraphs as these
 " Nosby sent in i~enty more .nkee prisoners last night
 Mosby sent Us ,~o oii,eefs and twelve privstes yesterday"
 " Mosby swelled the number Tn lbby puson by thirty yesterday morning
 He never had over 7o,o men under hm al any one tune. and seldom over seventy hve CT eighty. but the records of Libby will prove that he captured and turned over at least GOO fedefals. He robbed trans and paymasiers and amps. cap tured wagons, killed ioragers and sho, down pickets. but the regular cavalry or both sides never missed chance to do likewise kilpatrick's rad to Richmond was marked by destruction and robbery and more than one citizen vas killed or wounded by forzgess, but he was mol, called guerrilla
 The only real guerrilla band of any consequence in Virginia during the war was that of Imboden. Mosby. R.sses and others recruited ,heir oommands fof the regular cavalry, and were detached for se outing seryiee. lmboden recruited his men as guerrillas. Ihs recruit ng pro, lamation, published in he Staunton and Winchester newspapers a, the time may ,e given here As proof that he in tended everything but honorable Nar. fare
 The several oompznies ~ili be gener- ally separated and emplsyed, AS far as practicable- n localities nesres, ,heir homes. where hey are familiar wlsh the county. Ny purpose IS 70 wage the mos, actiye warfare agains our brutal in- yadess and their domestie ziiies to hang about their camp and shoot down every sentinel, pick ket, courier, and wagon-driyer we can md; ro watch opportunities for attacking conveys and forage trains, and thus rendering the country 70 unsafe iha, they will not dare to move excep, in large bodies. Our own Virginia traitors men Of the p,erpoini and Carlisle stamp will receive our special regards.
 Our enemies are waging a war of un- paraileled barbarisy and ferociiy upon s-murde.ing unarmed peaceful oIti,ens 1; ouraglng helpless women burning the houses oyer The heads of innocen, child hood plundering the houses of widows and orphans in shor,, laying waste the land wherever their armies have pene- traied. Their heilish passions, no. sa,,s- fed with these acts of nendish brutality,