 in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Yokely gave the men civilian clothes and directions on how to escape the Union lines. Yokely's second arrest in the fall of 1863 was even more harrowing than his first. A squad of regular Confederate soldiers then in charge of hunting conscripts and deserters in the county came to one of Yokely's plantations, and while he was still in his shirt sleeves, hauled him in front of their commander, Captain Gilmer, who held him under guard overnight at Piney Grove School.