...allow it to happen.53 52. Morrison, Memoirs of Heth, xli, Ixxi. 53. Connelly, A utumn of Glory, 107. Men or squads of men, who commit hostilities, whether...commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting...

...soldiers armed and wearing the uniform of their army, but belonging to a corps which acts detached from the main body for the purpose of making inroads...commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting...

...government in 1863 for the use of Union forces, as mentioned above — explained the rule in more detail: Men, or squads of men, who commit hostilities, whether...commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting...

...operating on special missions, were lawful. But "men, or squads of men, who commit hostilities, either by fighting, or inroads for destruction or plunder, or by raids of any kind . . . without being part and portion of the organized hostile army," and who alternately took up arms or became civilians,...

...soldiers armed and wearing the uniform of their army, but belonging to a corps which acts detached from the main body for the purpose of making inroads...commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting...

...are soldiers armed and wearing the uniform of their army but belonging to a corps which acts detached from the main body for the purpose of making inroads...captured they are entitled to all the privileges of prisoners of war." Except for the fact that some light corps members did not wear regular uniforms,...