Geary disbanded this Missouri army on the Wakarusa, there grew up a marked antagonism of sentiment among its leaders.

He says: "Some of the more judicious of the officers were not only willing but anxious to obey this order, whilst others, resolved upon mischief, yielded a very reluctant assent." There was really a large majority that accepted the result with hearty good will, but there was also a small and malcontent minority determined on mischief.
Gen.

B.F.Stringfellow, because of the vehement zeal with which he had addicted himself to the enterprise of making Kansas a slave State, had won for himself a national notoriety.

He had staked life and good fame and everything on the final issue of his work, yet himself and his law partner, Peter T.Abell, went back from the Wakarusa never to lift a finger again in that business.

Mr.S.is a high-spirited, hot-blooded, proud-spirited Virginian.