...plunder. About a week previous to this Simmons with his band had crossed into Alexander county, and had made a raid on Colonel McCurdy, a well-to-do planter. About this time Mr. W. C. Green, of Alexander county , who had been a lieutenant in the Confederate army, received news from a friend in Wilkes county that Wade had planned to move into Alexander county and make a raid on his father, Rev. J. B. Green, a...