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General Gaines was himself severely wounded soon af- 

 terwards, which caused this oversight in his report to the se- 

 cretary of war. He did them full justice afterwards, and their 

 country fully appreciated their good conduct in the battle. 



Colonel John M'Elvain, is now in private life, and resides 

 at Columbus. Captain Charles L. Cass is also in private life, 

 and resides on his farm, not far above Zanesville, on the Mus- 

 kingum river. 



Our officers and soldiers were in all the battles, on the 

 Niagara river, in 1814, and in every instance, they behaved 

 well. Not a few of them, were killed in battle, or returned 

 home badly wounded, and died in Ohio. They have mostly 

 now descended down to the grave. They bled for their coun- 

 try, and are entitled to our esteem and veneration. Ohio will 

 forever cherish the remembrance of their feats in arms, as be- 

 longing to our history. These patriots live in their example, 

 to lead others to success and victory. Their deeds will be han- 

 ded down to posterity, in the poet's song, on the historian's 

 page, and the painter's canvas. Trimble and Cisna are long 

 since dead. The former was a United States senator, from 

 Ohio, when he died. Captain Cisna died at Piketon, where 

 his family now dwell. 



We cannot dismiss our picture of the late war in Ohio, with- 

 out saying a few words respecting our principal figure on the 

 canvas. We ask our reader's attention to them. 



General William Henry Harrison every where appears on 

 the whole field of his operations. The commissary's and quar- 

 ter master's departments, the recruiting service, all, all the ma- 

 chinery of war, is moved by him. His zeal, prudence, sleep- 

 less activity, untiring energy and heroic daring over- 

 came all difficulties and surmounted all obstacles. To look 

 back upon the amount of labor of all sorts, performed by him, 

 in that portion of his life, astonishes us. Few men could have 

 carried on the correspondence, which he was compelled to do, 

 in the same period of time. He wrote constantly to govern- 

 ors of states, officers of the army, and the secretary of war. 

 He traversed all the stamps of the northwest, constantly, al- 



