. . . to form guerilla parties armed with long range rifles to pick off the pilots of the National gun boats, is almost as frightful an expedient to stop their progress as that of the Nashville papers, which was to drill and blow up the rocks along the Cumberland to prevent their ascending the river above Fort Donelson. If the Tennesseans undertake guerrilla warfare, a way will speedily be found to check that sort of business. The Western boys understand “bushwhacking” quite as well as the rebels.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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