The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-09-09
I he Partisan
Bcina Captured. Death Stared
Him and Ills Men In
the Face. .......
By SARAH BRYCE VAUGHAN.
Copyright. 1910, by American Press
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Ivy SARAH BRYCE VAUGHAN

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During the American civil war there
hntnnts on the southern side the
army. the partisan and the guerrilla
The nrny md the guerrilla lnsted
throughout the four years fight: tho
partisan wus rare except nj the begin
ming of the war, mud. though he kept
up III Irregular warfare To the end. he
eventually became nm enlisted soldier
Young Carroll Rates Of Tennessee
wnS In the spring of lSI2 n header Of
one OF thrs" partisan bands lie had
M commission FROM the Confederate
government, nor were hI men enlist
ed The consequence was that lf rnr
turrd they were nmrnnhlr 10 the anm,
treatment nS the EncrriIlns, which was
Ia le hanged ur shot Bates command
numbered about thirty men. most oi
lIIrm of the better clnSs, nnh tho work
they laid out for themselves was The
annoy uncr of the Federal armies. They
would Interrupt communications 10y
cutting bridges. tearing ~ tracks. set
ting IRE Ia sturchniisra containing army
supplies indeed, nl such work ~
would harness the rncmIrA nf tho Con
frdrracy. Ihrlr nets would have been
legitimate had they been mustered into
tho service, but ns citizens they were
engaged In an unlawful warfare
Bates was Of that type Of man oi
whom General N. B Forrest was tho
principal No bridge guard know
when the young pnrtlsan would swnol
down On them, make them prisoners ~
drive them nwuy aud vet fire 10 The
hlidg" that had been placed In thrIr
charge. Wagon trains unless under
clnrg" of II large guard, even far IN
rcnr of the Federal front were never
snfr from capture and II captured they
nni the supplies they contained WCr,
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