The next day, local residents were tried by James G. Blunt, in an impromptu court martial. Mathews ranch and trading post at Little Town was subsequently burned. The ranch had consisted of a two story, double log cabin (covered with burr siding, and sporting plastered walls), a blacksmith shop, a stable, slaves quarters, a well house, a smoke house, a woodshed, other out buildings, as well as two race tracks. He had title to on the bluff and below. He had no less than 100 head of cattle and 50 horses. His possessions and the stock of the trading post (including 50 buffalo robes and six bear skins) were distributed among the volunteers who had tracked him down. Little Town and many houses at Chetopa were also burned. The site of Little Town remained unoccupied by whites during the war. Most, but not all, of the Osages fled Kansas during the Civil War. Mathews own children fled to Texas and Kentucky.