The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry
CHAPTER IX.
The Red River Expedition--Death of Colonel Mudd--How Colonel Marsh held the line--Fighting Guerrillas--"Alton Hell-Hounds" --Their remedy for picket shooting--Incidents at Clinton, Louisiana--Colored wards and the River Jordan--Dash upon Liberty, Mississippi--Capture of Confederate officers-- Chivalry of prisoners and captors--How a Confederate Captain "made good" 135