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Keeping the main division under his personal command, he despatched Stevens with a smaller force to raid the territory surrounding the two plantations against which he was moving. Between eleven and twelve o'clock Brown reached the home of Harvey G. Hicklin, the first victim marked on his list. Without the formality of a knock he smashed his door down and sprang inside with drawn revolver.
Hicklin surrendered. "We have come to take your slaves and such property as we need," the old man curtly answered. "I am at your mercy, gentlemen," Hicklin replied. Gill was placed in charge of the robbers who ransacked the bureau drawers, closets and chests for valuables. Brown collected the slaves and assured them of protection.
Hicklin never kept cash over night in his house. He lived too near the border. Brown called his men from their looting and ordered them to the next house which he had marked for assault the house of James Lane, three-quarters of a mile away. They smashed Lane's door and took him a prisoner with Dr. Erwin, a guest of the family.
When every watch, gun, pistol, and every piece of plate worth carrying had been collected, and the stables stripped of every horse and piece of leather, the old man turned to his victim and coolly remarked: "Now get your property back if you can. I dare you and the whole United States Army to follow me to-night. And you tell this to your neighbors to-morrow morning." Hicklin kept silent.
From Hicklin he had secured considerable booty and his men were keen for richer spoils. The first attack had netted the raiders two fine horses, a yoke of oxen, a wagon, harness, saddles, watches, a fine collection of jewelry, bacon, flour, meal, coffee, sugar, bedding, clothing, a shotgun, boots, shoes, an overcoat and many odds and ends dumped into the wagon. From Lane they expected more.
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