In regards to Gatewood, who I have done a lot of research on, he was a deserter from a TN Cav unit, who formed a gang of outlaws that terrorised NW Georgia and SE Tennessee. Look for the book, Mountain Partisans, it has a chapter on him. Reading of Gatewood and other "Guerillas" in the area you get an image of modern gangs fighting over turf, etc. He fleed the area after the war and went to Texas, and thats where things get really confusing, supposedly he was killed there in the 1870s, but there is evidence that he escaped. Just a note, it was reported that when Hood came back through the area in October of 1864, that the road from LaFayette to Rock Springs was lined with men that were hung by Gatewood. Pat Cleburne even mentions in his diary that his HQ in LaFayette was the site of one of Gatewood's murders.

Lee