te of Louisville), under Capt. William
Harrod. Also in the little army, which finally mustered 297
men, including officers, were frontiersmen from Redstone Old
Fort, and other settlements in the valleys of the Ohio and
Monongahela. The Redstone men were on their way home, when
they heard of the expedition, and joined it at the Licking;
they had been on a visit to Big Bone Lick, and had a
canoe-load of relics therefrom, which they were transporting
up river. The force crossed the Ohio, May 28, just below the
mouth of the Licking; 32 men remained behind in charge of the
boats, leaving 265 to set out for the Shawnee town of Little
Chillicothe, on the Little Miami, distant about sixty-five
miles northeast. George Clark and William Whitley were pilots,
and George M. Bedinger adjutant and quartermaster.--R. G. T.

[18] Without having seen an Indian, the expedition arrived in
sight of Little Chillicothe, at dusk of May 29--Withers places
the date two months ahead of the actual time. Capt. Logan had
charge of the left wing, Harrod of the right, and Holder of the
center. The white force now numbered 263--two men having
returned to the boats, disabled; the Indians numbered about 100
warriors and 200 squaws and children. Black Fish was the
principal village chief, and subordinate to him were Black Hoof
and Black Beard.--R. G. T.

[19] This was the council house, which was so stoutly
defended that the white assailants were glad to take
refuge in a neighboring hut, from which they escaped with
difficulty.--R. G. T.

[20] The chief cause of alarm, and the consequent disorder,
was a false report started among the whites, that Simon Girty
and a hundred Shawnees from the Indian village of Piqua, twelve
miles distant, were marching to the relief of Black Fish. Order
was soon restored, and when, fourteen miles out upon the
homeward trail, Indians were discovered upon their rear, the
enemy were met with vigor, and thereafter the retreat was
unhampered. The force reached the Ohio, just above the mouth of
the Little Miami, early on June 1. The "pack-horses" alluded to
by Withers, were 163 Indian ponies captured in the Chillicothe
woods; the other plunder was considerable, being chiefly silver