That night we marched some fifteen or twenty miles east-
ward to Brown's Spring, where early the next forenoon we
were reinforced by the company of Captain L. M. Frost,
under command of Lieutenant John Bowles, a few days
before organized and recruited in Boone County, except
seven members from Randolph, and an hour or two later
by that of Captain Alvin Cobb, the most dreaded bush-
whacker, with the possible exception of Bill Anderson, in
North Missouri.