waddell and several other leaders started stockpiling rifles, he even had a machine gun, probably gatling gun of the type used in 1898 war and all of a sudden, all these militia groups were coming from elsewhere, within goldsboro so it would take a couple hours to reach it and they all showed upimmediately. you have been the wilmington light infantry which was culinary organization, recently demobilized . but they had all their high-powered rifles, the wilmington naval reserve and they had a small howitzer, canon and these people shut down wilmington their martial law. they were strip searching men and women, and women on every corner. there were a number of black letter carriers who were beaten nearly to death by white mobs and some white women came to their rescue and got the hooligans often and gave them phones. there were a number of white women shelter their black servicemembers and their homes in order to keep them safe. but this was catastrophic for wilmington in so many ways. a lot of these people that were being harassed and shot at, they fled the city, swim the river, went out t