Long and Roberts were free lancers, Gatewood got his start under Southern hero and noble Confederate warrior Champ Ferguson who very definitely in rebel employ. The rebs let the criminal element loose on the South with their partisan ranger act. It’s rather striking the way y’all try to connect every criminal act with 100 of miles of Sherman to the general himself, but you ignore the mayhem loosed upon Dixie by the actions of that glorified criminal gang of slave traders, the Confederate “legislature”.
So was Gatewood.
BTW, are you as equally disgusted by Long/Robert's murderous activities as you are Gatewood's or are Long/Robert's murder and plundering righteous because they were union scum like your Uncle Billy?
Gatewood got his start under Southern hero and noble Confederate warrior Champ Ferguson
It's 'claimed' that he rode with Ferguson for about a year. I could find no proof. Gatewood may have made it up.
every criminal act with 100 of miles of Sherman to the general himself
And why shouldn't Shermy get the blame? Wasn't he the 'total war' general? Wasn't it he who said that he would 'make the South howl'?
but you ignore the mayhem loosed upon Dixie by the actions of that glorified criminal gang of slave traders, the Confederate “legislature”.
I'll take Southern legislaturers over yankee tyrannists any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
BTW, what yankee state are you from? You're a transplant, right?