The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-01-20

my. The Marquee was outside the
front gate of the garrison, and l was
enabled to observe the discussions of
the officers of whom. Capt. Brush of
the ChiIlicothe Cavalry was or as
sumed to be the senior officer, and of
the others, only knew Lieut. Creigh-
ton, OF the same company. Major
Anderson, of the Local Militia of the
territory, was near by on horseback,
good-looking officer, but | under
stood, was not admitted in council,
because of suspicious that the local
militia, were not loyal to our side.
The genuineness of the articles of
capitulation, brought by Elliot. were
questioned, and, as understood, de-
clsred to be q forgery and trick to
trap us. Finally the officer and at
5stendanis were imprisoned in the
bleekhouse, near the front gate of the
garrison, where we left them when
We retired for the night: That night
we slept at Lacelles Mill, just above
the garrison, and the next morning
We found that the Chillicothe cavalry
and their drove Of beeves were gone,
and a number Of our company also,
had gone homeBard. I had left my
rife -standing5in the corner of the mill
that night, bnt in the morning it, was
goielalso, and some of my comrads
suggested that it was taken by one
who would carry it back to Portage
and keepit from the British. The same
night, Sergeant John Wright died
at Capt. Downings and was buried by
his fri ends before morning. Our
Company was thus reduced to otwenty-
six mena The policy Of leaving for
home that night had been discussed,
and those who feIt1able, and were so
had gone but some were
otzable.t to gog and some who went
Merei scarcely able to endure such a
journey. For my part, i thought
there was more danger in running
away than in quietly submitting to be
prisoners of war. Besides l was fee
BILE, and had two older brothers along
not as able as myself-one.l of them
very feeble. We therefore, submitted
to- the yoke, and stayed where we
Were, tillrsAugust i25th.l Meantime
the Indians circulated freely among,
us but offered no violence to any that
i heard of. = One, however, meeting
ufeoInrade John, Smith, On the road
demanded his watch, which he was.
he was obliged to give up. The watch
belonged to Lieut.. Day, who Smith
was attending inshis sicknesasat Capt.
DeHnings. Q One Indian also stopped
at Downings,o where our sickest,
friends were, and demanded of Lieut.
Day, his nice castor hat and took it,
leaving one thatehad beena poorer fur
hat, but now, being wet with rain.
was slopehad down slike.Ra rag-zGzs
18th, ! Britizh ofIicer, whom
we derstood to Be Capt Elliott, and
asqu Of soldiers, came and took
twenty ne of us in small open row.
boat, to =. .eii; and, at the same
time gaKel mission and a pass, to
FIVE others, who had made arrnge-
ments to go by boat, to 2 Cleveland.
Those five were Job Thompson, Dr.,
Daniel Burroughs, cJr., VIM. Goodman
Jr., William Maxfeld aud Ebenezer,
Buckley, who, with Mr.. Lewis, and
another man and their. families had
prepared boat, and ali started. down
the river and lake the same day we
went to- fort Maiden OF their jour-
ney down the lake1 to-. Cleveland, 4
friend William Goolnan;a not long be-
fore his death, gave me a brief narra-
tive, which will be referred to hereaf-
Ter siSince his death, which occurred
Dec. 18TH 1869, there are, as we believe,
but twolof onr company aeft, Samuel
Redfield andlthe writer of this.
d Our small company eff twenty.one,
under our British conductors, arrived
at Maiden, from Raisln, the same day,
August 25th, and were quartered at
large and long building, on abeautiful
open plain and lawn, just above, and
near the fort and town. This was the
Indian Council-house, and there ap-
peared to be thousands of Indians,
swarming in the open plain back of
the town and fort, and IN plain sight
Of the Councii-house,; and with US
were quartered ffty-one other prison
ers, mostly sick and wounded Of HulIs
army. There our. beloved orderly
Lewis Day Jr., breathed his
last, on the merning after our arrival, !
Aug. ;26th, Aug. 9th. our little COM
pany, now reduced to twenty, were
permitted to remove from the crowd
ed eouneil-house and occupied small |
house in town. back Jdofy the fort,
where I'VE spent the few remaining
days ofI@our captivity inn Canada.
While there, We were guarded by a
British, sentinel at the door, as we had
been also at the Council-house, but
oneaaay the sentinel permitted an In
dianto enter among as, who drew
his knife and dashed about, apparent
~ TO frighten as, jsbbering his Indian
in threatening tone, striking some but
not extremely hard. Zachens Harmon
who was 30 feeble as to be hardly able
to walk, Mr.. Indian struck in the
breast, and knocked down with his
right hand, in,which he held his knife, |
but with the. hilt of the knife. He
was soon induced, by the Sentinel, to |
leave We saw there several Indians |
we'll knowns-in Portage county. |
saw two in town l had known in |
Mantua, one of them was well
Known through that eonnty-Geo gorge |
Vincent, alias Wilson. gsll iai
Aug. 90, about sunset, we were en-