on." January 19, 1863, was undoubtedly motivated by a grim desire for revenge.

During the weeks after the close of Bragg's Kentucky campaign, the partisans of

both sides continued to wage a bloody, localized "inside war" in the mountains.

Sometime in early November, the Greenwades joined their rebel neighbors in a

raid against Hiram Jenkins, a local Unionist.

The rebels decided to attack the homes of Jenkins and his nearest neighbor,

Volney Moore, near Olympian Springs on November 6, 1862. Striking Moore's

place first, the raiders were pushing through the doorway when young John,

Volney's son, opened fire. Jenkins heard the gunshots and dashed to Moore's

aid only to find that the rebels had been driven off. The body of young Henry

Greenwade, killed in the first fire, still lay where he fell.

 From that day forward Jenkins and Moore were marked men. Volney

Moore eventually left home for his own safety and joined the Union Army.

However, Jenkins refused to flee and was nearly captured one night later that

winter. Finding his house surrounded by Greenwade and a detachment of Cox's

" new company, he raised a puncheon in the floor and hid among the pigs and

geese that slept beneath the cabin. At one point the rebels lifted the puncheon

and peered into the darkness but failed to discover their prey.

According to Thomas Parsons of the 14th Kentucky Union Cavalry,

Greenwade's party then "stripped Jenkins' and Moore's houses of all the family

provision" and rode off into the night. Some weeks later Jenkins retaliated by

capturing an ox-cart load of grain from Greenwade and his neighbors. The

Unionist divided the spoils with Moore's family and sold the team for his own

profit. He afterwards visited the camp of the Union 14th where he was repeated-

warned not to return home.

The Union partisan brushed the warnings aside with the firm reply, "I am

bound to go." Two days later Jenkins emerged from hiding to visit his family.

He was totally unaware that his return coincided with a major Confederate raid

into Bath County.

On the night of Sunday, February 1st, a Confederate force estimated at