"Often dear ones plead with me to give them, for publication, items from the pages of my 'Memoirs'… of what I witnessed and in which I bore an active part in the Mexican war of 1846 and 1848; also of what I passed through in the Indian war of Oregon of 1853... and later of the Indian war of Oregon and Washington, of 1855 and 1856, and lastly, the bloody four years conflict known to those of us who served at the front throughout said conflict, as 'The Slaveholders Rebellion.'"
