so price spends three days in boonville. and he gets not 30,000 recruits, but somewhere in the order, somewhere around 2 to 3000 recruits join him. now, there are others that are trying join him. they just can't get there in time before price has to continue. west by this time. also, he's been collecting supplies and plunder and other things and he's got this wagon train is huge, depending upon which historian you look at and read. let's just take a round number of the biggest one because it's impressive. 500 wagons in this wagon train. and he's at this point. his main objectives are to get those recruits in the wagon train back to arkansas. but he's going to go he's got to follow that. he's going to go to kansas and continue the destruction. so, again as i mentioned, they lose and they have to go back. they end up back in arkansas and at december 2nd, traveling over 1400 miles. but it's this invasion that gets him to the three days in westport. so we have to understand this. we have to understand we have three armed forces