[8] Among the survivors was Ogle who, like Mason, hid
himself in the bushes until nightfall enabled him to return to
the fort.--R. G. T.

[9] As a matter of fact, the Indians made no attack on the
fort at this time, being content with the success of their
ambuscade. After throwing up some rude earth-works and blinds,
scalping the dead whites, killing all the live stock within
reach, and setting fire to the outlying cabins, they retired
across the Ohio in the night, and dispersed. Their loss was one
killed and nine wounded; the whites lost fifteen killed and
five wounded. The next day (September 2), the whites buried
their dead, and unavailingly scoured the country for Indians.

Tradition has made sad havoc with the records, in regard to
this first "siege" of Wheeling. Some of the deeds of heroism
related below, by Withers, were incidents of the second
siege--September 11, 1782, seven years later; but most of them
are purely mythical, or belong to other localities. Perhaps no
events in Western history have been so badly mutilated by
tradition, as these two sieges.--R. G. T.

[10] This statement of Withers, that Simon Girty was at the
siege of Wheeling, was long accepted as fact by Western
historians. But it is now established beyond doubt, that
neither Simon nor his brothers were present at that affair,
being at the time in the employ of Indian Agent Morgan, at Fort
Pitt. For details of the evidence, consult Butterfield's
_History of the Girtys_, _passim_.--R. G. T.

[11] [163] The notes furnished the compiler, mention
particularly a Mrs. Glum and Betsy Wheat, as performing all the
duties of soldiers with firmness and alacrity.

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_Comment by R. G. T._--Withers derived his information from
traditional notes in the possession of Noah Zane, son of
Ebenezer.

[12] After the affair at Wheeling, September 1, the Indians
returned home. But soon thereafter, Half King, head chief of
the Wyandots, set out with forty of that tribe to again harry
the Wheeling country. On the morning of the 26th, Capts.
William Foreman with twenty-four men, Ogle with ten men, and
William Linn with nine, started from Fort Henry on a scout.
Linn was ranking officer, although there was