1 90 HFSTORT OF OHIO, 



troops, who had been in the battle of Tippecanoe, in the autumn 

 before. The latter regiment was commanded bv Colonel 

 Miller. 



By about the middle of June, this little army, of about twen- 

 ty-five hundred men, left Urbana, under the command of gov- 

 ernor Hull, and proceeding northward, they encamped a short 

 time, about twenty-four miles north of Urbana, and erected a 

 block house, and called it McArthur's block house. This was 

 done by the first regiment. After resting here a short time, 

 they moved forward again, and got into a swamp, and, from 

 necessity, encamped in it, and erected a block house there, 

 which they called " Necessity." The second regiment, under 

 Findlay, had got ahead of McArthur's regiment, and had 

 encamped, and erected a block house, and called it Fort Find- 

 lay. The town of Findlay the shire town of Hancock county, 

 stands, where this block house was erected. After the armj^ 

 reached McArthur's block house, until they struck the Mau- 

 mee, where Perrysburgh now is, the whole country was covered 

 with a dense forest, which had to be cleared away for the wag- 

 ons and heavy baggage to pass along, in the rear of the array. 

 These block houses were stations erected where the provi- 

 sions could be stored, not wanted for immediate use. Like 

 taverns, on our roads, they served as stations for travelers to 

 stop at, as they were passing and repassing between the armj'^, 

 and the settled parts of the country. And as the armv moved 

 forward, the first block house, was erected twenty miles north 

 of Urbana, the next in a swamp, some fifteen miles or more 

 further north; and Fort Findlay was about fifteen or twenty 

 miles north of Necessity. From thence through the " black 

 swamp," it is about thirty-six miles, or less, due north, in a 

 right line, to the Maumee, at Perrysburgh. Through this 

 swamp, the army marched, followed by one hundred and six 

 heavy wagons, thirteen of which, stuck fast in the mud and 

 there remained scattered along in the route of the army, and 

 served as guides, to show, where Hull's army had passed along 

 on its march. 



The army reached the Maumee on the thirtieth day of June, 



