Within three weeks the thirty-three year old former sheriff of Morgan County

recruited sixty-two men, primarily from Morgan and Johnson counties, and

joined forces with Captain John T. Williams of the 2nd Kentucky Mounted

Rifles in forays against local home guards.

Cox's recruits included Thomas Greenwade, a man soon to be regarded as

of the most feared rebel partisans in the mountains. A native of Pennsylvania

the forty-nine year old Bath County farmer had worked at Beaver Furnace

during the pre-war years. Although his two sons Henry and James had fought

under May in the 5th Kentucky, the elder Greenwade apparently did not take up