After Deepwood Motte was freed, they read all the letters the maester had collected. Jon Snow and Sansa Stark had begun marching on Winterfell with a wildling force and had called those still loyal to House Stark to join them. Also, one of the Glover vassals, namely House Forrester, had been besieged by House Whitehill. There were a few grumbles at the mention of wildlings, but they decided that they preferred a few wildlings to the flayed man. It took some time to muster a fighting force, but they managed to gather nearly three hundred and fifty total. Glover managed to muster under two hundred swords and his vassals, Houses Bole, Branch, and Woods, sent forty men each.