When I was down in Whitesburg KY this summer, while John Edwards was there, I scanned a book in the local Library by a Mr. Caudill. He spoke of the partisan warfare in that area. Called the pro-Union people Union Home Guards and the pro-South people Confederate State Guards and also Confederate State Militia forces. The deeds that happen between these two groups in the several counties of that area were nothing less than horrific. The thing is from my reading, it was even worse for a long time after the war. Ghastly. Very much so.