Some of those guys did not join in October, 1861 but in December, so they were written up as deserters when the main group had their 12 months in and the bunch who had only 10 months in left at the same time in October, 1862. They all piled up their rifles and went home. One book I read said this happened at Hazel Green (Wolfe Co., Ky) and another said Salyersville (Magoffin Co., Ky) It wasn't too long after that the so called "Flat Gap Guards" were formed to help protect the Confederate sympathizers in that section of Johnson County because most of the people in power were Union loyalists. Some joined with the different partisan ranger groups. My grandfather and some of his neighbors joined up with Thompson's Partisan rangers. When Thompson was captured his final time and sent to prison for the rest of the war, two brothers-Sid and David Cook-took over as leaders and that seems to be when the really bad things began happening. Some historians locally called them Sid Cook's Guerillas. They were mean and dangerous but did keep the Union Army busy chasing them. They eventually affiliated with the Seventh Battallion as Co. G with Sid Cook as their leader. Best I can tell there were several pockets of these men living in different areas and when something was needed to be done in their general area, that is when they were called out.