artillery, there were many beech trees. The ground was extremely well chosen, by the enemy, and the armies were about equal in numbers.

Harrison now formed his troops in order of battle. General Trotter's brigade formed the first line, while Desha's division, was formed on the left. General King's brigade formed the second line, and Chiles' was kept in reserve. Both of them were commanded by major general HENRY. Governor SHELBY commanded Desha's and Trotter's brigades. This was the first order of battle, but, seeing the morass, in front of the Indians, and that while the British artillery were pouring their grape and canister, in front, on our troops, the Indians would be firing from their inaccessible covert on our left; Harrison ordered the dragoons, in front, to attack the enemy where Proctor had carelessly thinned his ranks. The dragoons moved forward, impetuously, upon whom the enemy's guns poured showers of grape and canister shot. For a moment, the horses faultered, but recovering from this momentay panic, the dragoons marched forward, with irresistible fury, broke through the enemy's line, then wheeling about, dealt death on all sides, upon the enemy. In a moment, all was over. The enemy was conquered, one and all, except Proctor and about two hundred horse, who had fled before the battle had scarcely joined. Flying, Proctor left his carriage and official papers in it. With the utmost precipitancy he fled in the direction of Niagara, whither he went, and never returned again to the place of his shameful defeat.

Having driven off, captured or killed all Proctor's white troops, the Indians were next assailed, with bullets in their thick underbrush. The bullets fell thick as hail-stones among them. Many were killed, and among them Tecumseh was pierced, in a moment, with several balls. Drawing off their forces, they fled into the thick woods nearly five miles before they halted. No one followed, or could follow them, on horseback. In this battle the British lost nineteen, killed, and fifty wounded. Proctor and two hundred dragoons, ran away, and six hundred officers and soldiers were taken prisoners.

The Indians left one hundred and fifty dead, on the battle ground. Harrison's loss, was about fifty, in all; seventeen of these were Kentuckians, and Ohio lost the remainder. Among the dead, was Colonel Whitely, an officer of the revolution, but now serving as a volunteer common soldier.

Hull's artillery was recaptured, which had originally been taken from the British with Burgoyne, at Saratoga.

Proctor was pursued after the battle but he out-run his enemies, and escaped, as we have already stated.

The numbers of the two armies were about equal, but from their position, the enemy had all the advantage. It is not a very uncommon thing for this signal and brilliant victory to be misrepresented, as having been achieved by superior numbers! It was not so, the British had the greatest number of troops in the battle. Harrison marched from Detroit, with about thirtyfive hundred men, but, he had left, on the way, or held in reserve, one thousand men, so that, but twenty-five hundred only, were in the battle. Proctor had with him, one thousand regulars, and Tecumseh had under him, twenty-five hundred Indians, who were most brave, and efficient warriors. The truth is, certain presons, feel unwilling to admit any fact, which does the western people justice. Having deserved none themselves, they feel unwilling to award praise to others.

Give us, Harrison's, Perry's and Jackson's victories, achieved by western people, and what was done, on the Niagara frontier, by western officers and western soldiers; and those who were so scrupulous about passing boundary lines, where there was any danger in crossing them, may claim all they ever did, in that war. But, for eastern writers of history, to misrepresent, as they too often do, every thing western, merely, because the West deserves so much commendation, and the East so little, will answer the authors no good purpose.

The West can write about battles, as well as fight them, and inasmuch, as we are all one people, and as it is our interest, as well as our duty, to cultivate harmony and good will between all portions of our Union, we have suggested what we have, above, especially to such, as send their books, into the West for sale.

Their praise we neither need, nor desire to have. Those in the east, who undertake to bestow it, upon us in the west, are rather too bungling at the business, to please any one, in the Valley of the Mississippi.

But a few remarks upon the preceding battle, and this war, for "free trade and sailors' rights," and we will gladly leave off describing battles, campaigns and carnage,

In this action Tecumseh, as we have said, was killed, which circumstance has given rise to almost innumerable fictionswhy, we hardly can tell, but it is so. The writer's opportu. nities for knowing the truth, is equal to any person's now living. He was personally, very well acquainted with that celebrated warrior. He accompanied Tecumseh, Elsquataway, Fourlegs and Caraymaunee, on their tour among the six na. tions of New York, in 1809, and acted as their interpreter among those Indians. In 1829, at Prairie Du Chien, the two latter Indians, both then civil chiefs, of the Winnebagoes, were with the writer, who was then acting as commissioner of Indian affairs in the United States service. From the statements of these constant companions of Tecumseh, during nearly twenty years of his life, we proceed to state, that Tecumseh lay with his warriors at the commencement of the battle in a forest of thick underbrush, on the left of the American army. That these Indians were at no period of the battle, out of their thick underbrush; that Nawcaw saw no officer between them and the American army; that Tecumseh fell the very first fire of the Kentucky dragoons, pierced by thirty bullets, and was carried four or five miles into the thick woods, and there buried by the warriors, who told the story of his fate. This account was repeated to me three several times, word for word, and neither of the relaters ever knew the fictions to which Tecumseh's death has given rise. Some of these fictions originated in the mischievous design of ridiculing the person who is said to have killed this savage, and who, bye the bye, killed no one that day, at least, either red or white. We mean no personal reflection on any one for not killing Tecumseh. We could easily write this

warrior's whole history, as he often requested us to do. By those who neither knew him, nor any other wild Indians, he is often represented as being something very uncommon; whereas all his movements originated with the Canadian Indian department. In obedience to their orders, he visited nearly all the Indian nations of North America, stirring them all up, against the Americans. He told the Onondagoes, through the writer, as his interpreter, "that he had visited the Florida Indians, and even the Indians so far to the north that snow covered the ground in midsummer." He was a warrior, and Elsquataway acted as a prophet, dissuading the Indians from drinking ardent spirits. As to real talent he possessed no more of it than any one of thousands of his people, in the northwest. Being much with the British officers, he had enlarged his ideas very much, as KEOKUK has his also, in the same way. All the principal men of the Winnebagoes had learned a great deal from the English officers. In their manners, these Indians at table, were most perfect gentlemen, and they knew enough to behave so any where. Whether the ridiculous stories about Tecumseh's death will continue to be told, we do not know, but we have done our duty by stating facts.

Upon one incident, the death of Tecumseh in the battle of the Thames, we cannot resist the impulse to make a further remark upon the capriciousness of that species of fame, which is ephemeral. General Harrison who planned this well fought and successful battle, has never been applauded for what he so richly merited; while an individual, a subordinate, who merely did his duty, as every other officer and solder did, has been applauded to the very echo, for killing an Indian! If that had been true, he deserved no more credit than any one common soldier in the engagement. A few Mohawks, and some other Indian chiefs and warriors belonging to the Canadian Indians, about lake Ontario, were mixed with the British regulars in the front line of the enemy. Some of these savages were killed in the action, and the remainder of these Indians on horse back, fled with Proctor. The Indian found dead, belonged to these Indians, not to the Winnebagoes or Shaw,

nese, who in this battle lay in ambush, beyond a morass, on the left of the American army.

Having followed the movements of our citizen soldiers, in this war, every where within the limits of our state, during the period it was carried on here, it may not be improper, nor uninteresting to follow such of them as were acting as soldiers, in the army, during that war, beyond our limits. Of the regular United States troops, raised in Ohio, colonel J. Miller commanded the nineteenth regiment. This, and the seventeenth regiment, not being full, the two were consolidated and called the seventeenth regiment.

The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh regiments were raised in Ohio, but from the same cause, they were consolidated, and called the nineteenth regiment. Colonel George Paul commanded it.

Portions of these regiments were in all the battles on the Niagara frontier in 1814. In the attack on Fort Erie, by the British, on the 15th of August, 1814, major William Trimble of this state, commanded a part of the nineteenth regiment, then in the Fort. The attack was made on the garrison, by a superior force, commanded by able and efficient officers. Major Trimble ordered three general charges, during the attack, which were executed with precision, energy and effect-each time repelling the enemy, at the point of the bayonet, and saving the garrison from capture. Major Trimble, conceiving himself injured in General Gaines' report of the battle, himself addressed a letter to the secretary of war, in which he said, “This detachment of the 19th of Infantry, fought most desperately. Lieutenants Charles L. Cass, John M'Elvain, and ensign Cisna, in every situation, showed the greatest activity, zeal and intrepid bravery. Without them, the fort would have been lost. The army, in that case would have been surrendered and put to the sword. Two of these officers were not even mentioned, and the third one was only mentioned as being wounded."

From the date of this letter, major Trimble, lieutenants Cass, John M'Elvain, and ensign Cisna were brevetted.