s an outlaw.

Pursued by 6,000 soldiers, the Confederates in that vicinity must
ultimately rejoin their army farther south, but they harassed their
pursuers for weeks in little bands rarely exceeding ten.

The horrors of guerrilla warfare before the raid at Lawrence, were
eclipsed after it. Scalping, for the first time, was resorted to.

Andy Blunt found Ab. Haller's body, so mutilated, in the woods near Texas
Prairie on the eastern edge of Jackson county.

"We had something to learn yet," said Blunt to his companions, "and we
have learned it. Scalp for scalp hereafter."

Among the brave fighters who were participants in the fight at Lawrence
were Tom Maupin, Dick Yager, Payne Jones, Frank Shepherd, Harrison Trow,
Dick Burns, Andy McGuire and Ben Broomfield.

15. CHASING COTTON THIEVES

In the fall of 1863, in the absence of Capt. Jarrette, who had rejoined
Shelby's command, I became, at 19, captain of the company. Joe Lea was
first lieutenant and Lon Railey second lieutenant.

When Capt. Jarrette came north again, I again became lieutenant, but when
Capts. Jarrette and Poole reported to Gen. Shelby on the Red river, they
were sent into Louisiana, and I again became captain of the company, so
reporting to Gen. Henry E. McCulloch in command of Northern Texas at
Bonham. All my orders on the commissary and quartermaster's departments
were signed by me as Capt. C.S.A. and duly honored.

Around Bonham I did scout service for Gen. McCulloch, and in November he
sent me with a very flattering letter to report to Gen. E. Kirby Smith, at
Shreveport, Louisiana, the headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi
department. Capts. Jarrette and Poole were at Shreveport and Gen. Smith
gave us minute orders for a campaign against the cotton thieves and
speculators who infested the Mississippi river bottom. An expedition to
get rid of these was planned by Gen. Smith with Capt. Poole commanding one
company, myself the other, and Capt. Jarrette over us both.

Five miles from Tester's ferry on Bayou Macon we met a cotton train
convoyed by 50 cavalry. We charged them on sight. The convoy got away
with ten survivors, but every driver was shot, and four cotton buyers who
were close behind in an ambulance were hung in a cotton gin near at hand.
They had $180,000 on them, which, with the cotton and wagons, was sent
back to Bastrop in charge of Lieut. Greenwood.

A more exciting experience was mine at Bayou Monticello, a strea