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brigade of Ohio militia increasing its strength to five thousand men. 
Twelve hundred Ohio militia assembled at Urbana were directed to 
move by Hull’s road, while the remainder of the Kentucky troops would 
join Winchester at Fort Defiance by the Au Glaize route along which 
they were already distributed. Upper Sandusky, Fort McArthur on 
Hull’s road, and St. Mary on the Au Glaize, were selected as advanced 
bases. The purchase of two millions of rations was ordered at once for 
delivery at these posts, much of which was contracted for within a 
week as both cattle and grain were abundant in the frontier settlements 
of Ohio.! He was, however, much concerned over the pressing need of 
woollen clothing, watch coats and shoes, which could not be so readily 
procured. 
Meigs, a man of exceptional zeal and energy, made every possible 
exertion to assist him. So successful were his efforts in assembling and 
equipping the militia of his State that it was estimated that twelve 
thousand were already under arms.” The Indians of Ohio were col- 
lected in concentration camps at Sandusky, Zanesville and Waupak- 
oneta, where blockhouses were built for their protection and they were 
vigilantly guarded. 
Shelby in Kentucky was equally diligent in forwarding supplies 
and reinforcements. Nor had popular zeal in that State at all abated. 
“The capitulation of Detroit has produced no despair,” Clay 
wrote, on September 21. “It has on the contrary wakened new enthu- 
siasm and aroused the whole people of this State. Kentucky has at 
this moment from eight to ten thousand men in the field; it is not prac- 
ticable to ascertain the precise number. Except our quota of the 
100,000 militia, the residue is chiefly of a miscellaneous character who 
have turned out without pay or supplies of any kind coming with 
their own arms and subsistence. Parties are daily passing to the theatre 
of action; last night seventy lay on my farm, and they go on from a 
solitary individual to companies of ten, fifty and one hundred.” 
All ranks and classes seemed animated by the same warlike spirit. 
John Allen, the most eminent lawyer in the State next to Clay, Madison, 
the State Auditor, and not less than seven Congressmen elect, were 
already serving under Harrison, two or three of the latter as private 
soldiers. The course of events, however, would soon demonstrate that 
these armed mobs were liable to disperse as rapidly as they assembled. 
By October 1, Harrison had succeeded in assembling three thousand 
men in the vicinity of St. Mary. Half of these were mounted and were 
formed into a brigade under command of Brigadier General Edward 

‘ Eustis to Harrison, Sept. 23, 1812. 
* Harrison to Eustis, Sept. 27, 1812. 
