at effect, but its
shrieks at length arose and drew the savages to the spot. Three of her
children were slain by her side.

On hearing of this disastrous event, Capt. Whitley collected
twenty-one men from the nearer stations, and went in pursuit of the
aggressors. He presently overtook them, killed two of their party, and
retook the prisoners and the scalps of those whom they had slain.--So
signal was his success over them.

In ten days afterwards, another company of _movers_, led on by Mr.
Moore, was attacked, and in the skirmish which ensued, nine of their
party were killed. Again Capt. Whitley went in pursuit of the savage
perpetrators of this outrage, having thirty men to accompany him. On
the sixth day of the pursuit, they overtook twenty mounted Indians,
some of whom were clad in the clothes of those they had slain; and who
dismounted and fled upon the first fire. Three of them however were
killed, and eight scalps and all the plunder were recovered.

In consequence of the many repeated aggressions of the savages, an
expedition was this fall concerted against their towns on the Wabash,
to be carried into immediate execution. Through the exertions of the
county lieutenants an army of one thousand men, was soon assembled at
Louisville[3] and placed under the command of Gen. Clarke, who marched
directly for the theatre of contemplated operations--leaving the
provisions and much of their munitions to be transported in boats. The
army arrived near the towns, before the boats;--the men became
dissatisfied and mutinous, and Gen. Clarke was in consequence,
reluctantly forced to return without striking a blow.[4]

[287] When the army under Gen. Clarke marched from Louisville, Col.
Logan knowing that the attention of the Indians would be drawn almost
exclusively towards it, & other towns be left exposed and defenceless,
raised a body of troops and proceeded against the villages on the
Great Miami, and on the head waters of Mad river. In this campaign he
burned eight large towns, killed twenty warriors and took between
seventy and eighty prisoners.[5]

Among the troops led on by Col. Logan, was the late Gen. Lyttle (since
of Cincinnati) then a youth of sixteen.[6] At the head of a party of
volunteers, when the first towns on the Mad river were reduced, he
charged on some of the savages whom he saw endeavoring to reach a
close thicket of hazel and plum bushes. Being some distance in front
of his companions, when within