Aaron Burr had continued his excursion down the Mississippi with Harman Blennerhasset and the small army of men that they had recruited in Ohio.

They intend to reach New Orleans, but in Bayou Pierre, thirty miles north of New Orleans, they learn Jefferson had issued an order for Burr's arrest, declaring him a traitor before any indictment.

Burr reads this in a newspaper in the Territory of Orleans on January 10, 1807.

Jefferson's warrant put Federal agents on his trail.

Burr and his men surrender at Bayou Pierre, and Burr is taken into custody.

Charges are brought against him in the Louisiana Territory, but Burr escapes toward Spanish Florida.