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by Colonel Crawford, as I have been since 

 informed, to draw off with order ; but at 

 the moment of our retreat the Indians (who 

 had probably perceived that we were about 

 to retire) firing alarm-guns, our men broke 

 and rode off in confusion, treading down 

 those who were on foot, and leaving the 

 wounded men who supplicated to be taken 

 with them. 



" I was with some others on the rear of 

 our troops, feeding our horses in the glade, 

 when our men began to break. The main 

 body of our people had passed by me a 

 considerable distance before I was ready to 

 set out. I overtook them before they crossed 

 the glade, and was advanced almost in front. 

 The company in which I was had separated 

 from me, and had endeavoured to pass a 

 morass ; for, coming up, I found their 

 horses had stuck fast in the morass, and, 

 endeavouring to pass, mine also in a short 

 time stuck fast. I ought to have said, the 

 company of five or six men with which I 

 had been immediately connected, and who 



