distributed themselves into eighteen com-, 

 panics, choosing their captains by vote. 

 There were chosen, also, one colonel 

 commandant, four field and one brigade- 

 major. There were four hundred and 

 sixty- five who voted. 



" We began our march on Saturday 

 May 25th, making almost a due west course, 

 and on the fourth day reached the old 

 Moravian town, upon the river Muskingum, 

 about sixty miles from the river Ohio. 

 Some of the men, having lost their horses 

 on the night preceding, returned home. 



" Tuesday the 28th, in the evening, 

 Major Brenton and Captain Bean went some 

 distance from camp to reconnoitre : having 

 gone about one quarter of a mile they saw 

 two Indians upon whom they fired, and 

 then returned to camp. This was the first 

 place in which w T e were discovered, as we 

 understood afterwards. 



" On Thursday the 4th of June, which 

 was the eleventh day of our march, about 

 one o'clock we came to the spot where the 



