Here I found a number of men dressed in blue uniforms.

They told me they were discharged members of the Eighth Indiana Volunteers.

They were traveling to Kansas, steerage, saving their money so they might have it to invest in homes when they reached their destination.

They had all heard of me, and now proposed to arm and defend me should there be any further hostile demonstrations.

I gladly welcomed their support, more for my wife's sake than for my own.
"My wife," I said, "firmly believes that I am an outlaw." "You can't blame her," said the spokesman of the party, "after what has happened.