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Updated: May 18, 2025
She wouldn't go anywhere without me. One time when she was out praying, I touched her and said to her that I heard something in the corn crib. She cut her prayer off right now and went and told it to her old mistress, and to the young master, who was in the house just then telling the Negroes they were all going to be free. The Jayhawkers spied us and they got out and went on their way.
The Jayhawkers passed on, and here at these very springs was where the Author overtook the Rev. J.W. Brier delivering a lecture to his children on the benefits of an early education, as referred to in his narrative.
The second night the brave Jayhawkers who had been so firm in going north hove in sight in our rear. They had at last concluded to accept my advice and had came over our road quite rapidly. We all camped together that night, and next morning they took the lead again. After crossing a small range they came to a basin which seemed to have no outlet, and was very barren.
Toward the north I could see the desert the Jayhawkers and their comrades had under taken to cross, and if their journey was as troublesome as ours and very much longer, they might by this time be all dead of thirst.
Just said that they'd ketch you. He used to scare us by telling us that the pateroles would ketch us. We thought that was something dreadful. "I never heard nothin' about jayhawkers. I heard something about Ku Klux but I don't know what it was. "My father married my mother just after the War. "I been married twice. My first husband got killed on the levee.
If they could only reach the mountain, they agreed their hardships would be over, their journey as good as ended. They separated here to set forth by two different routes. The Jayhawkers struck straight out across the flat, while the little company of families kept to a more roundabout course in the south, hoping to find water in the mountains there.
Some of the Jayhawkers had been in the Mexican War and understood a few words of Spanish, and by a liberal use of signs were able to communicate with the armed party and tell them who they were, where they were going, and the unfortunate condition in which they found themselves.
Bennett's little train turned west from this point and the Jayhawkers went on north, but before night they changed their minds and came following on after Bennett whom they overtook and passed, again taking the lead. Thus far the country had been well watered and furnished plenty of grass, and most of them talked and believed that this kind of rolling country would last all the way through.
In the morning we shouldered our packs again and took the trail leading to the west, and by night we had overtaken the advance party of the Jayhawkers, camped in a cañon where there was a little water, barely sufficient for their use.
He said he wanted to use them himself, and couldn't spare them. "'That don't make no sort of difference, said I; 'we want your horses more than you do. "'What regiment do you belong to? "'Seventh Kansas Jayhawkers. The whole regiment talks of coming round here. I reckon I'll bring them. "When I told him that," said the soldier, "he said I might take the horses, if I would only go away.
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