St. Clair and Wayne 61 



he had a long queue, and his thick gray hair flowed 

 from under his three-cornered hat; a lock of his 

 hair was carried off by a bullet. 32 Several times he 

 headed the charges, sword in hand. General Butler 

 had his arm broken early in the fight, but he con- 

 tinued to walk to and fro along the line, his coat 

 off and the wounded arm in a sling. Another bul- 

 let struck him in the side, inflicting a mortal wound ; 

 and he was carried to the middle of the camp, where 

 he sat propped up by knapsacks. "Men and horses 

 were falling around him at every moment. St. 

 Clair sent an aid, Lieutenant Ebenezer Denny, to 

 ask how he was; he displayed no anxiety, and an- 

 swered that he felt well. While speaking, a young 

 cadet, who stood nearby, was hit on the kneecap by 

 a spent ball and at the shock cried aloud; whereat 

 the General laughed so that his wounded side shook. 

 The aid left him; and there is no further certain 

 record of his fate except that he was slain; but it 

 is said that in one of the Indian rushes a warrior 

 bounded toward him and sunk the tomahawk in his 

 brain before any one could interfere. 



Instead of being awed by the bellowing artillery, 

 the Indians made the gunners a special object of at- 

 tack. Man after man was picked off, until every 

 officer was killed but one, who was wounded; and 

 most of the privates also were slain or disabled. The 



39 McBride's "Pioneer Biography," I, 165. Narrative of 

 Thomas Irwin, a packer, who was in the fight. There are 

 of course discrepancies between the various accounts ; in the 

 confusion of such a battle even the most honest eye-wit- 

 nesses could not see all things alike. 



