denied. His smooth, open, rosy cheeked face made almost any disguise easy of encompassment. His iron nerve carried him easily thru many self imposed difficulties, that without it extraction could not have come thru a regiment of cavalry." Impossible for him to wear a wig he let his hair grow as did Custer and Pickett. However "beneath an exterior as effeminate as a woman, he carried the muscles of an athlete. His long hair in battle blew about as the mane of a horse. The dandy in a melee became a Cossack; in desperate emergencies, a giant. Even the rough guerrillas had no desire to tangle with such a person."

Records of Sue's guerilla command first appeared in the Union dispatch of Nov. 5, 1864. His men were pillaging Bloomfield, Kentucky. He got away but they were caught. In the next four months Sue's guerillas and Union troops were in almost daily contact. In January, 1865, 18 home guards were plundering stores in Bloomsburg when 60 guerillas under Sue and McGruder dashed into the town, killing all but one one of the plunderers. Day after day Federal officers reported skirmishes with Sue, the pattern always the same. Union troops arrived in force to find a burning depot on a farm that he had looted. After Sue's men had captured one wagon train, a detachment of U.S. cavalry appeared so suddenly, Sue had to flee barefoot through brush and snow to escape.

Altho several packs fought on their own, several joined forces. This brought Sue together with the most celebrated of all guerillas-William Clarke Quantrill (Collins History of Kentucky) "Sue's men were to be relied upon equally with the best of any guerilla band, Quantrill not excepted... Quantrill, 28, handsome, well brushed dark hair, and a small moustache, must have created a charming companion for the attractive Sue

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Mundy, even though Sue appeared upon occasion as a man with very long hair." A veteran of violence in bleeding Kansas days, Quantrill had been mustered into the Confederate army as a Capt.; but he preferred the methods and rewards of a guerilla. Sue operated on equal terms with the James Brothers and the younger gangs of cut-throats.

At a toll gate two miles west of Bradfordville, Quantrill was leading a raid when his rear was heavily attacked by Federal troops. Sue led a countercharge that sent the northern cavalry reeling but his own horse falling finished Sue. 50 Federal troops rushed in for the kill but Frank James and James Younger saved him.

Sue's ferocity in battle and bestiality on raids brought increasingly large numbers of Federal troops on his trail. On March 12, a detachment of Wisconsin's 30th surprised the guerillas near Webster, Breckenridge county.

soldiers, one mortally and refused to Sue personally wounded 4 Union him until a tricky Northern comsurrender despite heavy odds against mander promised he would be treated as a prisoner of war, and not as a captured outlaw. Sue accepted the terms. He was tried by a court-martial two days later in Louisville. The court repudiated the terms of surrender. He was a un-uniformed person who had shot and killed Federal officers, said the court, which refused to let Sue introduce evidence as to his military service in the Confederate army. Sue modestly protested that many of the acts were committed by a lesser known person.

March 15, in his 20th year at 4 in the afternoon, Sue was hanged. Just before hanging he amazed his captors by demanding pen and ink so he could write a farewell note to his lover, Quantrill.