There, they went into camp with at one time as many as twelve hundred men.

They eventually obtained flatboats, on which they floated down the Mississippi and then pushed up the Ohio to a point in Kentucky whence they proceeded on foot.

Attempts on the part of such bands to seize trains brought them into conflict with the authorities at some points.

For instance, a detachment of regular troops in Montana captured a band coming East on a stolen Northern Pacific train, and militia had to be called out to rescue a train from a band at Mount Sterling, Ohio.
Coxey's own army never amounted to more than a few hundred, but it was more in the public eye.

It had a large escort of newspaper correspondents who gave picturesque accounts of the march to Washington; and Coxey himself took advantage of this gratuitous publicity to express his views.