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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 21: (search)
Chapter 21: General Schofield coldly received by the people of Leavenworth City Colonels Jennison and Hoyt speak in Fort Scott the crowd sing John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, &c. more of General Lane's Grand army of invmand of this department. When the present excitement wears off a different feeling may prevail. Colonels Jennison and Hoyt made rousing speeches in town on the evening of the 7th, for the purpose of arousing the martial enthusiasm of our citizen burning everything in the two border tiers of counties in Missouri, and received a few feeble cheers from the crowd. Colonel Hoyt was one of the attorneys who defended John Brown, when lie was tried for treason by the Virginia authorities, and therstorm that would shortly sweep away their cherished, and to them divinely ordained, institution. Colonels Jennison and Hoyt left on the 8th for Paola, where they will join General Lane, who has perhaps nearly five thousand citizens assembled for