Robbery and brigandage, murder and arson follow in its wake.
Guerrilla warfare means a policy of destruction, a policy of terror, and never yet, however great may have been the injury caused by it, however much it may have prolonged the war in which it has been employed, has it secured a termination favorable to the people who have chosen it." [422] The case under discussion furnished no exception to the general rule.
Such semblance of discipline as had previously existed among the Insurgent soldiers rapidly disappeared.

Conditions had been very bad under the "Republic" and worse during the first period of the war.

During the second period they rapidly became unendurable in many regions, and the common people were driven into the arms of the Americans, in spite of threats of death, barbarously carried out by Insurgent officers, soldiers and agents in thousands of cases.

I have described at some length the conditions which now arose in the chapter on Murder as a Governmental Agency, to which the reader is referred for details.

[423] In the effort to protect the towns which showed themselves friendly, the American forces were divided, subdivided and subdivided again.