not long after he got back, a neighbor came and told matilda, mrs. tebbetts, there are a group of confederate sympathizers that will finish the job did mcculloch could not finish. matilda left the parlor where she was entertaining the neighbor, talked to jonas. jonas came in, said hello, and walked down the front walk and waved goodbye to matilda, got on his horse, and rode out of town. when he got just past the confederate lines he went up to the union line. when he was there, he shared information about the area and the people, and never lived in this house again. the information that we have is from the oldest daughter's journal. it was her memories that she wrote in her late 80's. what she said was while jonas was in prison in fort smith, the confederate soldiers demanded the drapes and carpets to be used as blankets and saddle blankets. instead of just giving it to them, matilda had the slaves take them down, beat out the dirt, fold them nicely, and give them to the army. matilda hid any hard feelings that she had. she did where several pieces of gold co

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 from the oldest daughter's journal which was actually her memories she wrote when she was in her late 80's, 90 years old. but what she said was like while jonas was in prison in fort smith, the confederate soldiers came and demanded the drapes and carpets to be use

tebbetts as much as they could. members of the confederate army, even. they were working with the union army to get him released. there was a union jailer who sent a letter to matilda saying that he would do everything that he could to help jonas and to make his stay comfortable. he was sure everything would turn out all right. while he was in jail in fort forh he would watch out him. matilda was allowed to send one of their slaves to fort smith to tend to jonas' needs, as he was a gentleman. matilda sent some messages through the slave. the slave was also allowed, by his status, to stand around and absorb information he could pass on to jonas. in the meantime general mcculloch was called to the killed by ahe was union sharpshooter. because of this, jonas was exonerated and the charges were dropped. he was allowed to come back home. he came back to the house. not long after he got back, a neighbor came and told matilda, , there are a group of confederate sympathizers that will finish the job did not finish.uld matilda left the parlor where she was entertaining the to jonas.talked jonas came in, said hello, and walked down the front walk and to matilda, got on his h