The Monroe journal., 1910-09-13
The Partisan
Being Captured. Death Stared
Him and His Men In
the Face
By SARAH BRYCE VAUGHAN.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

During the American civil war there
were three different classes of COM
batants ON the southern side-the
army, the partisan and the guerrilla.
The army and the guerrilla lasted
throughout the four wears fight: the
PARTISAN was rare except at the begin
ming Of the war. and. though he kept
up an irregular warfare 10 the end. he
eventually became an enlisted solder,
Young Carroll Bates of Tennessee
was in the spring Of 1856, leader OF
one Of these partisan bands. He had
no commission from the Confederate
government. nor were his men enlist
cd. The consequence was that II cap
tured they were amenable to the same
treatment aS the suerrillaS. which was
TO be hanged or shot. Bates command
numbered about thirty men. most OF
them Of the better class. and the work
they laid ont for themselves was the
annoyance of the Federal armies. They
would interrupt communications by
cutting bridges. tearing up tracks, set
ting fire 10 storehouscs containing army
supplies all such work as
would havaSS the enemies Of the Con
federacy. Their acts would have been
legitimate had they been mustered into
the service. hut rs citizens they were
engaged In an unlawful warfare.
Bates was of that type Of man of
whom General y. Il. Forrest was the
principal No bridge guard knew
when the young partisan would swoor
down on them. make them prisoners or
drive them away and set lire TO the
bridge that had been placed in their
charge. Wagon trains unless under
charge of a large guard, even far i'll
rear of the Federal front were never
safe from capture. and If captured they
and the supplies they contained were
burned. So bold and so annoying were
Bates men that the general in COM
mand Of the Federal troops in the dis
trict he was constantly raiding sent
Captain Coleman with two companies
Of cavalry to capture or diSperse his
band.
One evening Bates stopped at the
house of "A Union farmer and demand
ed supplies for his men and forage for
his horses. The SoutherncrS having
been supplied had not long left the
farm when Captain Coleman and his
troops rode up from a different direc-
ton. Upon the captain asking for in
formation Of Bates command the farm
er said
They have Just left here II you
are after them you'll find them near
here tonight Bates girl lives a few
miles down the road, and he's sure to
60 to see her this evening. III show
you the roads by which YOU can APP
preach the house from different direc-
tons and surround it,
The offer was gladly accepted, and
when il was quite dark the farmer
sent one of his boys to reconnoiter the
partsans. Ii was learned that the
band was bivouacked in the yard of
the house OF one Colonel Payton. COM
handing n Confederate regiment in
east Tennessee. whose daughter Dol
~ was engaged to Carroll Bates.
About 10 o'clock a hundred Federal
cavalrymen, converging encircled the
house and captured the entire band.
The men were in the yard, most OF
them asleep. but Bates was in the
house with his tianccc.
At the time of the capture Dolly
Payton was begging her lover to OBJ
tain a commission from the Confeder-
ate government and thus avoid certain
death in ease Of capture Bates ar
gucd that by doing so he would be
come very small part Of a large
army and could not as such be as use
! ful 10 the cause. she was holding NJ
| 10 him the horror she would expe
rience in case he were captured when
they were startled by shots without
The door was thrown open. and Cap
tain Coleman stepped in with drawn
revolver in each hand. confronting
Bates, around whom the girl had
thrown her arms.
Bates, seeing that he was caught, en-
deavored 10 unwind Dolly's arms. bu
she would not Coleman. touched 10y
the scene. stood waiting. waving bach
his men who had followed him int
the house. Finally Bates unwount
the arms that encircled him. and thu
girl fell to the floor in a faint. Cole
man motioned Bates TO take her up
He did so and placed her on the sof'
on which the two had been sitting
BY this time members Of the famil.
| appeared. took charge Of Dolly. ant
Bates was taken outside. The thirt.
partisans were in charge Of three time
their number Of Union cavalrymen an'
escape was hopeless.
The next morning Captain Coleman
entered the house and asked for writ
ing material, He desired TO send
courier to his general with n repor
Of the capture and TO ask for instruC
tons. While he was writing Doll,
Payton, white as a cloth, came In.
aWhat will Won do with them z" sh