CONTENTS. xiii 



CHAPTER XV. 



FIVE DAYS AT TOLEDO. 



'tilde from Elmore— Lecture at Lyceum Hall— Forsyth Post, G. A. 

 R.— Doctor J. T. Woods— Concerning General Custer— Pioneer 

 History— Battle of Fallen Timbers— Mad Anthony Wayne- 

 Miami and Wabash Indians— The Toledo War— Unpleasant Com- 

 plications—Governor Lucas — Strategy of General Vanfleet — Mil- 

 bourn Wagon Works — Visited by a Detroit Friend . , . 257 



CHAPTER XVI. 



TOLEDO TO DETROIT. 



Seventy-second Day— Leave Toledo — Change of Route— Ride to Erie, 

 Michigan — Paul Shows His Mettle — Seventy-third Day — Sunday 

 — Go to Church — Rev. E. P. Willard — Solicitude of Friends^ 

 Seventy-fourth Day — Ride to Monroe — Greeted with Music — Hail 

 Columbia — Scar-Spangled Banner — Home of Custer — Meet Custer 

 Family — Custer Monument Association — Received at City Hall^ 



» Great Enthusiasm — River Rasin — Indian Massacre — General Win- 

 chester — Battle of the Thames — Death of Tecuraseh — Monroe 

 Monitor — Seventy -seventh Day — Lecture at City Hall — Personal 

 Recollections of Custer — Incidents of His School Life — Seventy- 

 eighth Day — Leave Monroe — Huron River — Traces of the Mound 

 Builders — Rockwood — Seventy-ninth Day — Along the Detroit 

 River — Wyandotte — Ecorse — Eightieth Day — Letter from Judge 

 Wing — Indorsement of Custer Monument Association . , 269 



CHAPTER XVII. 



FOUR DAYS AT DETROIT. 



Leave Ecorse— Met at Fort Wayne — Sad News — Reach Detroit- 

 Met by General Throop and Others — at Russell House — Lecture at 

 St. Andrew's Hall — General Trowbridge — Meet Captain Hampton 

 — Armv and Prison Reminiscences — Pioneer Historv of Detroit — • 

 La Motte Cadillac — Miamies and Pottawattomies — Fort Ponchar- 

 train — Plot of Pontiac — Major Gladwyn — Fort Shelby — War of 

 1812 — General Brock and Tecumseh Advance on Detroit — Sur- 

 render of General Hull — British Compelled to Evacuate . 287 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



DETROIT TO CHICAGO. 



Eighty-fifth Day — Leave Detroit Reluctantly — Paul in Good Spirits 

 — Reach Inkster — Eighty-sixth Day — Lowering Clouds — Take 

 Shelter under Trees and in a Woodshed — Meet War Veterans— 



