and geoff thompson, he always kind of has a wry sense of humor in his reporting. when he wrote about what happened, we found that the enemy had obstructed the fort by falling trees. a portion of the brigade dismounted and waited. the stream and we drove the enemy so fast that axes they had used to fill, the trees were left there. they used them to clear it so that the artillery and the wagon trains could get across byron's ford. the federal failure at barney's ford led directly to the next that happened later that afternoon. the fight that was on the farm of thomas maccabee in this case, colonel sidney jackman's brigade, the confederate brigade that had been in reserve at byron's for now crosses the river and heads down to get control of the other forward that they're going to have to get control of. russell's fort. so one of the one of the units down at that defense is at the russell's forward is the second kansas state militia under the command of colonel colonel george washington veale after byron's fort was breached. veale orders to return to westport and he's