900 HTSTORT or OHIO. 



bate drew tfaeir proviskcis ibr ten dsiTs, uriiidi they tmiii 

 aloDf vith them tduKiugii the forests, in tbeir rixite. TiMQr 

 bete tooydrew eftch nmi an )U3», whkh beiof nade of oa;^ irocK 

 or pot mettle, in some eastetn state, hiv4e into many iiafnieMs, 

 as soon as ueed» by the !S>cktdier«, in the Imii^oi CMintry. Hav- 

 iojg^ drawn thw hor»^ ans and piovtsious^ Rm* ten days;, they 

 marched from Dayton« and passing near where Greenrtllo now 

 is they finally reached the Missi^iuevray. This stteam they 

 followed downwards. Having arrived vrtthiu twenty miles of 

 the Indian town, located highest on the stream. Colonel Omip- 

 bell, called a council of war, to ast the advice of his odkers. 

 what line of conduct it was b^:t for the expedition, now t)0 pur^ 

 suet This was on the eveniog of the third day firom Green- 

 rUle, Tbeir advice was, to ttvai>ch all that night, and take the 

 enemy by ^rprise. The march continued all night, and. had 

 not some Kentuckian given an Indian yell, when the [ndian 

 Tillage was entered very early in the next utoming, the ene- 

 my would haTe been taken by surprise. As it was. however, 

 eight warriors were killed, and ftatv twx\ uven. w«iK>a and 

 children were taken prisoners. This, was the first of a succes- 

 sion of villages. 



MoQceytown, in Delaware county. Indiana, b near the place, 

 where this, then, Indian town was. Pressing flvward. they de- 

 $t^v\^■^ed three other Indian towns lower down the river and re- 

 turned to the site of the first destroyed town. They had lost c nly 

 a ten- men, and had killed manv of the enemy, and had taken 

 forty or fifty prisoners. On this spot, where the first tsxru had 

 been destroyed, early on the morning of the 18th of Doceiuber, 

 they were attacked by several hundred Indians. The dra- 

 goons met the enemy, and dislodged his WTirriors. firom the cov- 

 ert, where he had assailed them, in the edge of a Rarest, behind 

 some old follen timbers. Driving hini troni his position, our 

 troope killed many fodians, and drove off his forces into the 

 woods- Forty dead bodies of the enemy were toiind. on the 

 battle grwitvd, the remainder were carried otf by him. We lost 

 twehrc killed and about three times that number were wound- 



