Ed Brady, an ancestor of mine from White/Putnam County was in the 28th Tenn. Two of his sisters are said to have been secret couriers for Champ Ferguson. My reading of the guerrilla war was that it swung back and forth. Tinker Dave Beatty pretty much did what he wanted and never got caught, and Stokes's cavalry, though little better than undisciplined bushwhackers sure gave my ancestors hell. By war's end, if they weren't in POW camps, they were laying low or had given their parole.