The dramatic and exciting Story of Indian guerilla warfare against the Confederates during the Civil War.
About the Author William McKee Evans , emeritus professor of hiStory at California State Polytechnic University and the author of the prize-winning Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear ..
In 1872, Henry disappeared and some of his other followers were eventually hunted down and killed by bounty hunters.
For more than five years, with the support of local Indians and Negroes, they eluded capture.
The Lowry Band became as notorious as their contemporaries Jesse and Frank James, as they terrorized bush-whacked leaders of possses and military companies.
While awaiting trial, he escaped and took to the swamps with a Band of supporters.
To Die Game is the Story of Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee who was arrested for killing a Confederate official.
During the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war.
The dramatic and exciting Story of Indian guerilla warfare against the Confederates during the Civil War