He never boasted of it.

He never alluded to it, but with a saddened countenance.

Whenever the subject was referred to, he always expressed his heartfelt regret, that it had been needful to resort to such severe measures to preserve the good order of the camp.
In the life of John Charles Fremont we find the following reference to Mr.
Carson and to this adventure: "Christopher Carson is a remarkably peaceable and quiet man, temperate in his habits, and strictly moral in his deportment." In a letter written from California in 1847, introducing Carson as the bearer of dispatches to the government, Col.

Fremont says: "'With me Carson and Truth, mean the same thing.

He is always the same,--gallant and disinterested.' "He is kind-hearted and averse to all quarrelsome and turbulent scenes, and has never been engaged in any mere personal broils or encounters, except on one single occasion, which he sometimes modestly describes to his friends.