Adam R. Johnson leads 35 Confederate partisans out of Henderson, Kentucky, to raid the Federal arsenal across the Ohio River at Newburgh, Indiana.
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The Partisan Ranger Act
The Confederate Congress approves a measure authorizing the organization of guerrilla forces to help combat the Federal invasion.
Reconsidering the Confederate Partisan Ranger System
January 7, 1864 – Colonel John Singleton Mosby’s Confederate partisan rangers operated in northern Virginia, while calls grew louder among Confederate officers to ban the
The Border District: Ewing Incites Guerrillas
August 14, 1863 – Brigadier General Thomas Ewing incurred the wrath of Confederate raiders operating along the Missouri-Kansas border by targeting their relatives, including women and