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they have gone to the soldier's camp. They are now talking with officers. They will lead the soldiers to our hiding place. I will shoot either one of them before I will shoot a soldier. They all said the same thing. That verry night they all moved camp about two miles north on the same mountain. The Juniper trees and mahogney trees or bushes was thicker in that locality. The next morning all the braves were busisey building breast woks: the determined to make that place their last stan and sell their lives dearly as possible. The all knew if the four deserters took sides with the soldiers and fight with them they was up against it as the four men were all dead shots. Let us see where capt. Jack and his few followers went to when he and Schowchin separated from Black Jim and other. Jack and Schowchin their families and the other five or six families headed east. They traveled about ten or twelve miles made camp in a small revenge or gulch where the knew was a small spring. Jack and Schowchin passed a resless night. They both thought that Black Jim would follow them and kill them in this they were mistaken. Jack proposed to lay over