 The state responded by organizing the Frontier Cavalry and deploying it to patrol the Canadian border with Vermont and New York, and Vermont's contingent included two companies, one based in Burlington, and one in St. Albans.Washburn issued a militia commission to Ann Eliza Smith, the wife of Governor J. Gregory Smith.The Smiths were residents of St. Albans, and Smith had been in the state capital of Montpelier on the day of the raid.