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Capt._ Snelling's_ Company.
Killed--Joseph Tibbetts. Wounded--Ithiel Hathway,--Goodenough.
--Total 3.
The late Capt. _Welch's_ Company.
Killed--Corporal James Mitch.e.l.l; Corporal David L. Thompson; Levi Cary private--Wounded--Lieut. Geo. Gooding; Sergeant Montgomery Orr, dead; Corporal John Rice; Jona Crowell, dead; Daniel Gilman, dead; Stephen Pettis; Wm. Pomroy; Lucius Sallis; Jas. Stevenson, dead; Samuel Tibbetts, dangerous.--Total 10.
Capt. _Barton's_ Company.
Wounded--Daniel Kearness, dead; Lewis Taylor, dead; Lemuel E.
Welch, dead; John Clark; Robert Douglas; Wm. Foster; Souther; Wm.
Turner.--Total 8.
Capt. _George W. Prescott's_ Company.
Wounded--John Sandborn, dead.
Capt. _R. B. Brown's_ Company.
Wounded--John Yeomans, dead; Bliss Lovell, dangerous. Augustus Bradford.--Total 3.
Capt. _Cook's_ Company.
Wounded--Sergeant Henry Munn; Nathan Snow, dead; Amos Rice, dead; Daniel Lee, dead; Dennison Crumby, dead; Robert Thompson; Charles Coger, dangerous; Wm. M. Saunders; Daniel Rogers.--Total 9.
Lt. _Albright's_ detached 1st. and 7th regiment.
Killed--Isaac Butler. Wounded--Sergeant Walcott Babbit; Sergeant Nathan Fairbank; Samuel Potter, badly; Lewis Margum; Elisha Nappe.--Total 6.
Killed--1 Capt., 2 Corporals, 19 privates. Wounded--3 Subalterns--6 Sergeants--2 Corporals--1 Musician--44 Privates.
Whole number, killed and wounded of the army--188.
GEN. HARRISON'S CAMPAIGN
At the retaking of Detroit, and the defeat of the army under Gen.
Proctor, extracted from the ”_View of the N.W. Campaign_,” by Samuel R. Brown.
The chagrin and disappointment, added to the serious loss of the fine army, under Gen. Hull, cast a temporary gloom over the whole union, but this sentiment soon subsided, and all felt the necessity of immediate action. Pennsylvania and Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, all felt eager to wipe away the deep stain on our national character.
Volunteers every where presented themselves, and but a short period elapsed before an army was ready, as if by magic, to retrieve the fortune of arms. A leader was wanting--all eyes looked with a common impulse upon the hero of TIPPECANOE; the united voice of the people of the west called on the Governor of Kentucky to dispense with all formalities, and General _William Henry Harrison_, was brevetted a major general, with directions to take command of the north-western army.
On the 3d of September, the Indians made a furious a.s.sault on Fort Harrison. They kept up a brisk fire the whole night, and one time had actually succeeded in making a breach in the defences of the place.
The roofs of the buildings were several times on fire; one of the blockhouses was burnt. Captain Taylor, however, succeeded in defending the post and finally beat them off. The scene was enough to try the soul of a hero. There were but eighteen effective men in the fort, and two of them, in a moment of despair, leapt the pickets to escape. The night was dark--the yelling of several hundred savages, and the cries of the women, were sufficient to excite terror in the stoutest heart.
On the 4th of September, Gen. Harrison arrived at Urbana and a.s.sumed the command of the north-western army. The rapids of the Miami of the Lakes were fixed upon as the point of concentration, the several corps of which were to move in the following directions:--two thousand Pennsylvania volunteers under General Crooks, were to move from Pittsburgh along the sh.o.r.es of lake Erie: Gen. Tupper's brigade of Ohio volunteers were to take Hull's route from Urbana to the Rapids: fifteen hundred Virginians, under Brigadier Gen. Leftwich, were to take the same route, whenever they should arrive. Gen. Payne's brigade of Kentucky volunteers, with the 17th U. States' regiment, Col. Wells, were to advance to Fort Wayne, and descend the Miami; such was the disposition of the forces which were to const.i.tute the _new_ army.
A considerable Indian force appeared before Fort Wayne on the 5th.
They invested the place closely for several days; they burnt the U.
States' factory and many other valuable houses. A brother of Gov.