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Subsequently, he became a surveyor, and acquired wealth through lucky 
speculations in land near Chillicothe. He had already been a member 
of the Legislature and was elected Governor of Ohio in 1830. An 
English traveller, who saw him a. few years after the war, describes him 
as “ dirty, and butcher-like, very unlike a soldier in appearance, seeming 
half-savage and dressed like a backwoodsman; generally considered as 
being only fit for hard knocks and Indian warfare.”* He was, how- 
ever, brave, energetic, and undeniably popular. James Findlay, a 
Congressman, was elected Colonel of the Second Regiment, and Lewis 
Cass, United States Marshal for Ohio, an ambitious lawyer, living at 
Marietta, was elected Colonel of the Third. The subordinate officers 
were mostly men of considerable prominence and influence. The rank 
and file were confident and boastful and, above all, blind to their own 
deficiencies. Regarding themselves as the flower of the population of 
their state, they anticipated that the conquest of Upper Canada would 
be a mere holiday campaign, and were inclined to be noisy, unruly, 
and insubordinate when anything went wrong or displeased them. <A 
veteran frontiersman, specially qualified for the duty, was assigned to 
each regiment as chief interpreter and scoutmaster. These were Isaac 
Zane, whose name is perpetuated in an Ohio town, for many years a 
prisoner among the Indians and familiar with their dialects; James 
McPherson, who had served his apprenticeship in the British Indian 
Department under Colonel McKee, but since 1795 had acted as Agent 
of the United States in charge of the Shawnees and Senecas of Ohio; 
and James Armstrong, who had also lived among them for a long time 
and had been adopted into one of these tribes.? 
Meigs assumed the command until Hull arrived, and made all 
necessary arrangements for organization and discipline. He at once 
guaranteed pay and subsistence for all men in excess of the authorized 
strength, but found considerable difficulty in providing them with arms 
and equipment. 
The entire force was uniformed with homespun linen hunting- 
shirts and trousers, with leather belts and low-crowned felt hats. 
Two companies in each regiment were armed with rifles, the 
remainder with muskets, and all of them, besides bayonets, carried 
tomahawks and hunting knives, which were formidable weapons at 
close quarters. 
While they were encamped here, rumours of Indian depredations 
created so much alarm that most of the settlers on the Indian frontier 


*Faux, Memorable days in America, p. 184. 
* Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio; McDonald, Life of Duncan 
McArthur. 
