Their names are worthy to be enrolled on the annals of our nation.
After having provided myself with dynamite, I left Potchefstroom and returned to my commando, then quietly withdrew in the night to Rhenosterkop.

From there I sent Veldtcornet Nicolaas Serfontein, of the Bethlehem commando, in the direction of Reitz and Lindley, to bring the Kaffirs there to a sense of their duty, for I had heard that they were behaving very brutally to our women.

The remainder of the Bethlehem burghers under Commandant Prinsloo and Veldtcornet Du Preez, remained with me to assist me in getting under my supervision the commandos which had escaped from behind the Roodebergen.

These were under the command of General Fourie, and some were in the south of the State.

I left Captain Scheepers behind me with orders to wreck the line every night.
That evening I went to Mr.Welman's farm, which was to the south-west of Kroonstad.
There I received a report that the commandos under General Fourie were in the neighbourhood of Ladybrand.