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The organization of home-guards gave to these armed bodies of men the power, and with it came the temptation to abuse it. The memory of the men who had been hanged for bridge-burning, and of those who had languished and died in prison charged with no crime but disloyalty to the Confederacy, was a constant stimulus to severity. Their blood seemed to cry from the ground.
They were organized, also, in their own fashion, and every neighborhood could muster its company or its squad of home-guards to join in quelling seditious outbreaks or in strengthening a little column sent against any of the enemy's outposts. No considerable hostile movement was possible within a range of thirty miles without our having timely notice of it.
He arose, and walking on tiptoe, cautiously stepping over his sleeping guards, he reached the door and silently unfastened it. The Union men rushed into the room and took the astonished Wroton and his followers prisoners. At daybreak White rode into Springfield at the head of his captives and a motley band of Home-Guards. He found the Federals still in possession of the place.
At my outcry the dogs slunk away, and he asked me, diffidently, for a thing which was very precious in those days pins. But he was quickly surrounded by pitying eyes and emotional voices, and was coaxed into the house, where the young ladies took his coat away to mend it. While he waited for it in my room I spoke of the terror so many brave men had of these fierce home-guards.
It was the custom of the home-guards to meet weekly, and practice with their fire-arms, in order to be the better prepared, as they pretended, for any sudden incursion of the now dreaded Yankee. Mr. Bobor had gotten a Yankee pistol from some friend, who was in the army, and Dr. Charles wanted to see and try it. It was shown him, and its workings explained.
It was likely to be an enterprise of the utmost peril, with Hobson hotly on his track, and the home-guards rising in his front, but the dauntless Morgan did not hesitate in his desperate adventure. The first check was at Corydon, where a force of militia had gathered.
One had been surprised at the wharf, and steaming out on her, they had captured the other. Preparations for crossing were begun; but, just as the first boat was about to push off, an unexpected musketry fire was opened from the Indiana side by a party of home-guards collected behind some houses and haystacks.
Central position of Marietta, Ohio Connection with all parts of West Virginia Drill and instruction of troops Guerilla warfare Partisan Rangers Confederate laws Disposal of plunder Mosby's Rangers as a type Opinions of Lee, Stuart, and Rosser Effect on other troops Rangers finally abolished Rival home-guards and militia Horrors of neighborhood war Staff and staff duties Reduction of forces General Cluseret Later connection with the Paris Commune His relations with Milroy He resigns Political situation Congressmen distrust Lincoln Cutler's diary Resolutions regarding appointments of general officers The number authorized by law Stanton's report Effect of Act of July, 1862 An excess of nine major-generals The legal questions involved Congressional patronage and local distribution Ready for a "deal" Bill to increase the number of generals A "slate" made up to exhaust the number Senate and House disagree Conference Agreement in last hours of the session The new list A few vacancies by resignation, etc.
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