But there the film broke and did not record the fact that Captain Ward put Bob and John on a commissary wagon that stood in a side street as the soldiers moved out.

John remembered looking into a street filled with marching soldiers.

First the regulars and the artillery came swinging down the street.

At their head the boy saw General Lyon, the commanding officer, and around him was a bodyguard whose plumed hats, with the left brim pinned up, caught the boys' eyes.

The regulars marched by silently.