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WhilethearmiesoftheUnionandtheConfeder- raids and disappear. The stark landscapes of
acy clashed on scores of battlefields, a second, Kansas and Missouri supported a harsher kind
clandestinewarwasbeingwagedthroughoutthe ofguerrilla war conducted by men whose com-
land. Across the rolling landscape of northern mitment to killing and plundering seemed as
Virginia moved bands ofConfederate partisans strong as their loyalty to a flag.
andraiderswhostruckatUnioncampsandrail- Theirregularwarfarethatflickeredandflared
roads and then melted back into the country- likeabrushfireacrossthesevastspacesinvolved
side. Spies,scoutsand—saboteursmovedbynight scores ofmen and a handful ofwomen. At their
alongVirginia'srivers toobserveenemytroop worst theywere simple bandits and at theirbest
movements and to infiltrate the very capitals of they were living legends, incarnating the causes
the Union and the Confederacy. for which they fought and served. The most fa-
InwesternVirginia,theAlleghenyMountains mousofthemevenputhisnameonfourcounties
were home to marauding bands of hill people ofVirginia farmland, a region known to friend
who descended from forest hideouts to stage and foe alike as Mosby's Confederacy.
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