There was no peace for the community from this time on. Throughout the winter, we were continually molested by soldiers moving from one place to another. On several occasions, large numbers quartered themselves among us overnight. They seized wood, hay, poultry, and anything else they needed. Once they made thirty fires in our yard on the same night. All this was a severe loss to the already poor community. To escape the raiders, we had to leave our houses in the first weeks of the new year. The whole community - with the women and children, and with our cattle, too - had to take to the woods in the cold of winter. Seven or eight brothers stayed behind in the houses to protect them from arson.