They had generally made their escape with a team or two, sometimes a yoke of oxen with a mule or a horse in the lead.

A little bedding besides their clothing and some food had been thrown into the wagon.

All else of their worldly goods were abandoned and appropriated by their former neighbors; for the Union man in Missouri who staid at home during the rebellion, if he was not immediately under the protection of the National troops, was at perpetual war with his neighbors.

I stopped the recruiting service, and disposed the troops about the outskirts of the city so as to guard all approaches.

Order was soon restored.
I had been at Jefferson City but a few days when I was directed from department headquarters to fit out an expedition to Lexington, Booneville and Chillicothe, in order to take from the banks in those cities all the funds they had and send them to St.Louis.