CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SHOT.

On Board the Barges--Floating Barracks Equipped for Bloody Warfare--Up the Monongahela at Midnight--Homestead Gets Warning--Defenders at the Mill Landing--Frick's Army Repulsed With Heavy Loss--Hugh O'Donnell Takes Command of the Workmen--Sheriff McCleary's Appeal to the Governor--Frick Refuses to Interfere 52-64