Alan, you're (of course) exactly right. A veteran of the War of 1812, John Madison of Walker County and his sons (and their families) were staunch unionists, and resisted commissary/tax-in-kind requirements as well as hiding and feeding those "laying out" from conscription officers. After the conscription age was extended, one of Madison's sons (age 45) was shot and killed by a conscription officer/home guards. The widow Susan Madison named the men in the group who killed her son, in her affidavit in the Southern Claims Commission. Clearly those enforcing conscription were local men whom she knew well.

Of course, neither Madison's unionist position nor his veteran status prevented Croxton's brigade from cleaning out his smokehouse and corn cribs, and confiscating his horse.