... eight o’clock several of the private soldiers in Colonel Reid’s regiment, to the number upwards of 100, came into the town armed with thick sticks, and staves resembling their stable broomhandles, crying out, “Down with the Walterites, and Colonel Reid ...

... Pollock One of the men appeared to me to be armed ; to the best of my knowledge it was a gun he had in his hand. To Mr. Lee—The men I saw running across the field had on black clothes; the man that was armed had a straw hat, and the other a black one; ...