e upper Wabash and the boundless
prairies of the north. In the wake of the conflict followed the forces
of civilization, and in a few years afterward both valley and plain were
filling up with a virile and hardy race of frontiersmen who laid the
foundations of the new commonwealth. In 1816, Indiana became a member of
the federal union.

CHAPTER XXV

NAYLOR'S NARRATIVE

_--A description, of the battle by one of the volunteers._

An excellent portrait of Judge Isaac Naylor now hangs in the court room
at Williamsport, Indiana. He was one of the first judges of the
Montgomery circuit which formerly embraced both Warren and Benton.
Naylor was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1790, and removed to
Clark county, Indiana, in 1805. In 1810 he made a journey to New Orleans
on a flatboat. While preparing for college the Tippecanoe campaign came
on, and he joined Harrison's army at Vincennes. His account of the
battle is as follows:

"I became a volunteer member of a company of riflemen, and
on the 12th of September, 1811, we commenced our march
toward Vincennes, and arrived there in about six days,
marching about 120 miles. We remained there about a week and
took up the march to a point on the Wabash river, sixty
miles above, on the east bank of the river, where we erected
a stockade fort, which we named Fort Harrison. This was
three miles above where the city of Terre Haute now stands.
Col. Joseph H. Daviess, who commanded the dragoons, named
the fort. The glorious defense of this fort nine months
after by Captain Zachary Taylor was the first step in his
brilliant career that afterwards made him President of the
United States.

A few days later we took up the march again for the seat of Indian
warfare, where we arrived on the evening of November 6th, 1811.

"When the army arrived in view of the Prophet's Town, an
Indian was seen coming toward General Harrison with a white
flag suspended on a pole. Here the army halted, and a parley
was had between General Harrison and an Indian delegation,
who assured the General that they desired peace, and
solemnly promised to meet him next day in council, to settle
the terms of peace and friendship between them and the
United States.

"General Marston G. Clark, who was then brigade major, and
Waller Taylor, one of the judges of the