Trip with two men.—Killed Stokes for informing on him.—Secreted in a cave on Big river.—Vows of vengeance.—Watched for McGahan.—Tom Haile pleads for Franklin Murphy.—Tongue-lashed and whipped out by a woman. 84 CHAPTER XI. Trip to Missouri with three men.—Fight near Fredericktown.—Killed four soldiers.—Went to their camp and stole four horses.—Flight toward the South.—Robbed “Old Crusty”. 91 CHAPTER XII. Trip with three men.—Captured a spy and shot him.—Shot Mr. Scaggs.—Charged a Federal camp at night and killed nine men.—Came near shooting James Craig.—Robbed Bean‘s store and returned to Arkansas. 96 CHAPTER XIII. The Militia mob robs the Hildebrand estate.—Trip to Missouri with ten men.—Attacks a government train with an escort of twenty men.—Killed two and put the others to flight. 102 CHAPTER XIV. Federal cruelty.—A defense of Bushwhacking.—Trip with Capt. Bolin and nine men.—Fight at West Prairie.—Started with two men to St. Francois county.—Killed a Federal soldier.—Killed Addison Cunningham.—Capt. Walker kills Capt. Barnes, and Hildebrand kills Capt. Walker. 106 CHAPTER XV. Started alone to Missouri.—Rode off a bluff and killed his horse.—Fell in with twenty-five Rebels under Lieut. Childs.—Went with them.—Attacked 150 Federals at Bollinger‘s Mill.— Henry Resinger killed.—William Cato.—Went back to Fredericktown.—Killed one man.—Robbed Abright‘s store. 114 CHAPTER XVI. Started to Bloomfield with three men.—Fight at St. Francis river.—Goes from there alone.—Meets his wife and family, who had been ordered off from Bloomfield.—Capture and release of Mrs. Hildebrand.—Fight in Stoddard county.—Arrival in Arkansas. 121 CHAPTER XVII. Put in a crop.—Took another trip to Missouri with six men.—Surrounded in a tobacco barn.—Killed two men in making his escape.—Killed Wammack for informing on him.—Captured some Federals and released them on certain conditions.—Went to Big River Mills.—Robbed Highley‘s and Bean‘s stores. 128 CHAPTER XVIII. Selected seven men and went to Negro Wool Swamp.—Attacked fifteen Federals—A running fight.—Killed three men.—Killed Mr. Crane.—Betrayed by a Dutchman, and surrounded in a house by Federals.—Escaped, killed eight Federals, recaptured the horses, and hung the Dutchman. 136 CHAPTER XIX. Went with eight men.—Attacked a Federal camp near Bollinger‘s Mill.—Got defeated.—Men returned to Arkansas.—Went alone to St. Francois county.—Watched for R. M. Cole.—Killed Capt. Hicks. 147 CHAPTER XX. Trip to Hamburg with fifteen men.—Hung a Dutchman and shot another.—Attacked some Federals in Hamburg but got gloriously whipped.—Retreated to Coon Island.—Killed Oller at Flat Woods.—Robbed Bean‘s store at Irondale. 153 CHAPTER XXI.