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Updated: May 27, 2025
On the platform-car he found the soldiers and their commander, sitting silent and unconcerned as before. When Sinclair reached the latter and nodded, he rose and faced the men, and his fine voice was clearly heard above the rattle of the train. "Company, 'tention!" The soldiers straightened themselves in a second. "With ball cartridge, load!" It was done with the precision of a machine.
I was invited by the latter to accompany him and his party by a special train to Springfield, to which train was attached a platform-car having on board a cannon, which made considerable noise on the journey. At Bloomington we all stopped over night, as Douglas had a speech to make there in the evening. The party went to the Landon House the only hotel, I believe, in the place at that time.
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