they sent asbaugh to the house here, to the tebbetts home and jonas gave him a flag and he put it up on the town square. jonas also invited the general in to have dinner at his house and to make this house his headquarters, thinking general asbaugh would be here for a while. the general did come to the house, dined with the tebbetts and three days later he was called back up north, leaving the town again open to which ever army came through. the next army that came through was the southern army and general ben mccole you can from texas sent his -- ben mcculluck sent him to the door and knocked and said tebbetts was under arrest for being a traiter to the united states of america and he was taken to fort smith where he would be tried and hung as a trader for having a union flag and for supposedly not accepting confederate money, for allowing union general into his house. many people wanted to help jonas tebbetts as much as they could. members of the confederate army even and they were kind of working with the union army to try to get him released. there was a union jailer who sent a l