These ideas and convictions, however, refused obedience to accepted laws and morals, and were mere fantastic and pernicious outgrowths of his religious fanaticism.

His courage partook of the recklessness of insanity.

He did not count odds.

"What are five to one ?" he asked; and at another time he said, "One man in the right, ready to die, will chase a thousand." Perhaps he even believed he held a charmed life, for he boasted that he had been fired at thirty times and only his hair had been touched.

In personal appearance he was tall and slender, with rather a military bearing.