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Our loss in this brilliant affair, Was one killed, and seven 

 were very slightly wounded. 



The total loss of the enemy could not have been less than 

 one hundred and fifty killed and wounded. 



One British officer, major Muir, was wounded in the head, 

 knocked down for dead in the ditch, lay there awhile, come to 

 himself, and finally crawled off to his friends. For us it was 

 well enough that he escaped at that time, inasmuch as he was 

 never sane afterwards. 



He got the command of two hundred troops, and was passing 

 down lake Ontario, next year, 1814, in two vessels. Chased 

 by our squadron of ships, towards the lower end of the lake, 

 he ordered the two vessels to be run on an island, and he and his 

 men hid in the bushes, but had forgotten their arms! So they 

 were all captured, major Muir and his two hundred men. 

 Not a drop of blood was shed on either side. 



It remains for us to say, that for so brilliant an action, con- 

 gress with their characteristic alacrity on such occasions, have 

 at the end of twenty three years, voted swords to the officers, 

 Croghan, Hunter, Ship, &c., &c., &c. It is true that before 

 the swords were given, all but Croghan and Hunter, were 

 dead. Hunter, one of the bravest and most efficient captains 

 ever in the regular army to which he belonged, was disban- 

 ded at the close of the war. 



The ladies of Chillicothe, as soon as they heard of Crog- 

 han's gallant defence, voted him a sword. In Niles' Register 

 of that time, the reader will find their address to Croghan, and 

 his answer. 



The enemy had now returned to Maiden; our troops from 

 the interior were pouring into Upper Sandusky. From Picka- 

 way county Colonel James Renick with two hundred and fif- 

 ty mounted volunteers, an advanced detachment came ; seven 

 hundred following them, from the same county. Harrison had 

 called on governor Meigs for six months men, but hearing of 

 the invasion of Ohio, a second time this year, Meigs called out 

 the entire mass of militia for forty days. On the 4th of Au- 

 gust, early in the morning, colonel Henry Brush of Chillico- 



