Capt. Henry T. Davis of Duff's “Partisan Rangers” established Camp Davis in 1862. Also operating out of Camp Davis were "Minutemen" irregulars under the command of Major James M. Hunter, as well as Captain Duff’s forces who rode up in the night, snatched young men from their beds, hanged their parents, and burned their homes for avoiding conscription. Later, a squad from William Quantrill's command, fresh from Kansas atrocities, was led by Bill Paul; they made contact with James P. Waltrip who, emboldened by the Quantrill men, organized his friends and the Quantrill men into the infamous “hangerbande” (the hanging band or gang) that conducted terrorist raids throughout the area. In 1867, a crowd at the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg shot Waltrip to death.