Mahulda J. Gregory

William Nelson Gregory

Isaac Moore Gregory

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My purpose is to wage the most active warfare against our brutal invaders and their domestic allies; to hang about their camps and shoot down every sentinel, picket, courier and wagon driver we can find; to watch opportunities for attacking convoys and forage trains, and thus render the country so unsafe that they well not dare to move except in large bodies. Our own Virginia traitors--men of the Pierpont and Carlile stamp will receive our special regards. Our enemies are waging a war of unparalleled barbarity and ferocity upon us; murdering unarmed, peaceful citizens; outraging helpless women; burning the houses over the heads of innocent childhood; plundering the homes of widows and orphans short , laying waste the land wherever their armies have penetrated. Their hellish passions not satiated with these acts of fiendish brutality, are seeking further gratification by emancipating the slaves and putting arms into their hands to inaugurate a war of such atrocity as to make devils stand aghast at its horrors. Such being our enemies, and such their purposes, I hold that by the laws of God and man, it is our duty to slay them by all the legitimate means in our power. We have conducted the war on the highest principles of christian nations. Our enemies have adopted the Cammanche code in all except scalping. There is but one mode of putting an end to such a contest and such a system. We must rise as one man and slay the invader wherever and whenever we find him. The honor of our wives and daughters, the sanctify of our homes, the liberty of our children MUST be defended by MEN of the South, or all is lost. We all desire peace, and yet there is but one mode by which it can be secured--the destruction of the Yankee armies. We can have peace by this means, and that right speedily, if every man will do his duty. We are infinitely stronger as a nation than we were one year ago. Our independence is as certain as any future event can be and the time for its recognition is a matter perfectly under our own control. I therefore appeal to the men of the West to unite with me at once in the effort to deliver our native mountains from the pollution that has been brought upon them. It is only men that I want; men who are not afraid to be shot at in such cause; men who will pull a trigger on a Yankee with as much alacrity as they would on a mad dog, men whose conscience won't be disturbed by the sight of a vandal carcass. I don't want nervous, squeamish individuals to join me--they will be safer a home where the women can protect them and the children and calm their nerves when alarming news is circulating. J. D. Imboden Colonel Partisan Rangers

Malinda Vandevender

Henry Vandevender

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Joseph Gregory

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Mary Miller

John Miller

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Eve Burns

Harriet Eve Gregory