Charles Metz, a notorious Jayhawker, whose personal appearance and characteristics are best described in an essay entitled, “The Last of the Jayhawkers,” contributed to the old _Kansas Magazine_, by John J. Ingalls. “Conspicuous among the irregular heroes who thus sprang to arms in 1861,” says Ingalls, “and ostensibly their leader, was an Ohio stage driver by the name of Charles Metz, who having graduated with honor from the penitentiary of Missouri, assumed for prudential reasons the more euphonious and distinguished appellation of ‘Cleveland.’ He was a picturesque brigand. Had he worn a slashed doublet and trunk hose of black velvet he would have been the ideal of an Italian bandit. Young, erect and tall, he was sparely built and arrayed himself like a gentleman in the costume of the day. His appearance was that of a student. His visage was thin, his complexion olive tinted and colorless, as if ‘sicklied over with a pale cast of thought.’ Black piercing eyes, finely cut features, dark hair and beard correctly trimmed, completed a _tout ensemble_ that was strangely at variance with the aspect of the score of dissolute and dirty desperadoes that formed his command. These were generally degraded ruffians of the worst type, whose highest idea of elegance in personal appearance was to have their mustaches a villainous, metallic black, irrespective of the consideration whether its native hue was red or brown. * * * * “The vicinity of the fort with its troops rendered Leavenworth undesirable as a base of operations. St. Joseph was also heavily garrisoned, and they accordingly selected Atchison as the point from which to move on the enemy’s works. Atchison at that time contained about 2,500 inhabitants. Its business was transacted upon one street and extended west about four blocks from the river. Its position upon the extreme curve of the ‘Grand Detour of the Missouri, affording unrivaled facilities to the interior in the event of pursuit. Having been principally settled by Southerners it still afforded much legitimate gain for our bird of prey, and its loyal population having already largely enlisted, the city was incapable of organized resistance to the depredations of the marauders.