Rodney The Partisan

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Castlemon Harry. Rodney The Partisan

CHAPTER I. RODNEY KEEPS HIS PROMISE

CHAPTER II. THE RANGERS ELECT OFFICERS

CHAPTER III. DRILL AND PARADES

CHAPTER IV. A SCHEME THAT DIDN'T WORK

CHAPTER V. A WARNING

CHAPTER VI. UNDER SUSPICION

CHAPTER VII. THE EMERGENCY MEN

CHAPTER VIII. RODNEY PROVES HIS FRIENDSHIP

CHAPTER IX. ON THE ROAD

CHAPTER X. COMPARING NOTES

CHAPTER XI. RODNEY MAKES A TRADE

CHAPTER XII. TWICE SURPRISED

CHAPTER XIII. WITH PRICE'S MEN

CHAPTER XIV "HURRAH FOR BULL RUN!"

CHAPTER XV. A FULL-FLEDGED PARTISAN

CHAPTER XVI. THE CONSCRIPTION ACT

CHAPTER XVII. RODNEY MEETS A FRIEND

CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION

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When Rodney had left the village of Mooreville half a mile or so behind him, he threw the reins loose upon his horse's neck, thrust his hands deep into his pockets and thought over the conversation he had had with Tom Randolph. He had warned his cousin Marcy that the North Carolina people would be sure to turn the cold shoulder upon him on account of his Union principles, and now it seemed to Rodney that he was in pretty near the same predicament because his father believed and said that the seven seceding States, with two and a half millions of free persons, could not whip the loyal states and territories with twenty-five millions.

"It serves me just right," was Rodney's mental reflection. "I persecuted Marcy on account of his opinions, and now I am going to have a little of the same kind of treatment. No one but a red-hot secessionist has got any business in this part of the country."

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When Morgan and Forrest were first heard of they were known and acknowledged as partisans; and the former carried his partisanship so far that when General Buckner declined to give him permission to act upon his own responsibility, he took possession of a deserted house, went into camp there, and supported his men out of his own pocket; but before the war closed both he and Forrest were Confederate generals, and their men were regularly sworn into the Confederate service.

We said that the State troops also had ceased to exist, and the following incident proves it: When the Governor of Arkansas called upon his troops, who were serving in the Army of the Center, to come home at once and save their State from threatened invasion, General Beauregard ought to have permitted them to obey the summons. He could not do otherwise and be consistent, for if the eleven rebellious States made the Confederacy, they surely had the right to unmake it. But did he live up to the principles for which he was fighting? On the contrary he surrounded those Arkansas troops with a wall of gleaming bayonets backed by frowning batteries, and gave them just five minutes to make up their minds whether or not they would return to duty. The government at Richmond was a despotism of the worst sort, as more than one poor, deluded rebel found to his sorrow; and yet Jefferson Davis and the rest of them stoutly maintained that they were fighting for the right of the States to do as they pleased.

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