and in the meantime, general ben mccullock was called to the battle of pea ridge and in that battle he was killed by a union sharpshooter. because of this, jonas was exonerated, the charges were dropped and he was allowed to come back home. he came back to the house and not long after that, not long after he got back, a neighbor me and told matilda, ms. tebbetts, there's a group of men who are confederate sympathizers who are going to finish the job ben mccullock could not finish. matilda left the parlor where she was entertaining this neighbor and went and talked to jonas and jonas came in and said hello to the neighbor, walked down -- the stories we have, he walked down the front walk and said, you know, kind of waved a flower goodbye to matilda and got on his horse and quietly rode out of town, when he got to the union lines or just past the confederate lines, he spurred his horse on and headed up to the union line. once he was there, he shared information about what he knew about the area and the people in the area and never lived in this house again. the information we have is fro