474       QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS

it galloped around the enclosure snorting with terror. Quantrill, seeing the situation to be desperate, followed his fleeing knights on foot. They had made their horses jump the gate at the southwest corner of the lot, and were running down a slight ridge in a sugar-orchard, Hockensmith and Glasscock in the rear. Quantrill called to them and they waited for him, firing back to cheek the pursuit. As Quantrill ran alongside Glasscock trying to mount behind, Glasscock's mare was shot in the hip and became unmanageable. Then Quantrill fired to check the pursuit while trying to mount behind Hockensmith. While running by Hockensmith he was hit in the back by a ball, which entered at the end of the left shoulder-blade, ranged down, struck the spine, and paralyzed him below his arms. He was shot once after he fell, the ball cutting off the index finger of his right hand.

Glasscock got a quarter of a mile after his mare was wounded, and was then shot. Hockensmith got four hundred yards beyond where Glasscock was shot, when he, too, was overtaken and killed in a branch or small creek crossing the sugar-grove.2 Farmer Wakefield, being a non-combatant and having no thirst at all for military glory, ran at the first fire for the cover of his own good house, which, by dodging behind cribs and kennels, he happily reached uninjured.

When Quantrill was wounded, some of the victors jerked off his boots and perhaps others of his garments and made off with them. Others, less intent on loot, ran to the house for a blanket on which to bring him in, which they soon did, laying him on a lounge. Captain Terrill entered and talked with him. He repeated that he was Captain Clarke of the Fourth Missouri Cavalry. He did not wish to leave Wakefield's, and gave Captain Terrill his fine gold watch and $500 to allow him to remain. He promised an additional $500, saying that his men would get it for him.

By the military orders then existing, the life and property of Wakefield was forfeit for harboring the guerrillas. Captain

2 Glasscock and Hockensmith were first buried at Smileytown. Afterwards Wakefield, at request of their people, removed the bodies to th   cemetery at Bloomfield. Glasscock's horse was kept at Wakefield's until the owner, a widow, came and got it.