The latter's wound was not serious and on July third he too joined Early's command.
This company was chiefly occupied in the moving of supplies and the burying of a few men who had been killed in small engagements with the enemy.

It was a band of rough-looking fellows in the costume of the frontier farm and workshop--ragged, dirty and unshorn.

The company was disbanded July tenth at Whitewater, Wisconsin, where, that night, the horses of Harry and Abe were stolen.

From that point they started on their long homeward tramp with a wounded sense of decency and justice.
They felt that the Indians had been wronged: that the greed of land grabbers had brutally violated their rights.

This feeling had been deepened by the massacre of the red women and children at Bad Ax.
A number of mounted men went with them and gave them a ride now and then.
Some of the travelers had little to eat on the journey.