Dr. A. P. Dudley, said to have been a physician in Calcasieu Parish when the war started, evaded conscription and organized a band of Jayhawkers, who later became scouts for the Union army. A correspondent wrote, “Many of the scouts are desperate men, who have suffered all manner of outrage at the hands of the enemy and who, on this account, lose no opportunity to inflict the heaviest punishment on those who have drive them to the shelter of the swamps and forest. Captain Dudley is described as a slight, wiry man, about forty-five years old, with a small eye which is all back and a face which strikes one as full of cunning.” Harper’s Weekly, May 7, 1864.

A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist By Dennis E. Haynes p. 133

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