this was spontaneous but the white community under wardell and several other leaders had been stockpiling rifles, you even had a gatling gun used in 1890 and all of a sudden these militia groups were coming in from elsewhere. they really it would take a couple of hours to reach and they all showed up pretty immediately. you had the wilmington light infantry recently demobilized with all their high-powered ruffles and you had the wilmington naval reserve in a small cannon. these people shutdown out wilmington with their martial law, strip 13 men women and children. there were black letter carriers that were being beat to death and some white women actually came to the rescue and got the hooligans off them and give them shelter in their home. there were number of other white women who sheltered the black servants in their home in order to keep them safe. this was catastrophic for wilmington in so many ways. a lot of these people there were being chased and harassed and shot at flood the city, swim the river, they were missed treated and hid in the swamp. they went to ground basically every