Swift, James C. Horton, Edward D. Thompson, and Caleb S. Pratt, led a large company from Lawrence to the Bickerton farm, where "Old Sacramento" - a cannon captured by Colonel Doniphan at the battle of Sacramento, brought by the Border-Ruffians into Kansas, and from them captured by the Free-State men-was buried.

They dug up this cannon and carried it to Lawrence, where it was fired all night in honor of the admission of Kansas.

Mr. Pratt was a member of the second New England Emigrant Aid Company party that left from Boston in 1854 as an anti-slavery immigration to the new territory.

[2] He was a founding member of the Stubbs, a militia company that was organized on April 16, 1855, to protect Lawrence and the people of Kansas Territory.

[5] On June 3, 1861, he enlisted and was Commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company D of Kansas 1st Infantry Regiment.