Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-23
CAMPAIGN OF 1878
Troops to Mobilize in CeIebra-
ton of Historic Event.
AT VILLAGE OF OLD FORT
Gen. Harrison's Camping Place Near
Sandusky, Ohio.
DEATH OF CHIEF TECUMSEH
Seven Thousand American Soldiers
Engage the British Forces-Prom-
inent Officers Take Part.
DEATH OF CHIEF TECUMSEH
BY WILLIAM z. CURTIS.

inent Officers Take Part.
BY WILLIAM z. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
FREMONT. Ohio. juno 81. 1911
William r. Huntington OF Elyria
took us across in his natty launch,
the Thelma, from Put-in-B Bay TO Port
Clinton. where Gen. William Henry
Harrison and his troops embarked on
the ships OF Commodore Perry's fleet
after the battle OF Lake Erie for Can
ada. to fight the battle Of tho Thames.
which was practically the final engage
ment OF the war Of 1912.
While Perry was clearing the lakes
of British ships. Harrison was en-
camped at Fort Seneca, on the banks
of the Sandusky river, about sixteen
miles south of the present city OF San
dusky. His camping place is now the
village OF Old Fort. the name OF Fort
Seneca having been confiscated for an
other settlement three miles south
when the Lake Shore railway was built
parallel with the shore of Lake Fri
through northern Ohio 1t is expected
that the regular regiments and the mi
litia of the surrounding states will mo-
Billie at Old Fort in September. 1913
and march over Harrison's trail to
Port Clinton, and there embark for
ration OF the Perry memorial
With Col. Webb C.. Hayes as a guide
and he is good one-we followed
the Harrison trail in an automobile
from Port Clinton. pretty town OF
$500 Inhabitants, celebrated for
peaches, fish and plaster made from
gypsum. The trail is now a broa'
highway, with trolley track on tn
side and runs through the best peach
orchards in Ohio.
Commanded 1000 Troops.
Harrison had about 1000 troops
comprising regular infantry and ABOUT
$3.50 volunteers from Kentucky under
the command OF Gen. Shelby They
marched over, up from the Ohio rive
about ESQ miles. in the summer OF
1913. and 1t is expected that the Ken
lucky militia will do the same in 1919
All OF the prominent officers engaged
on the American side in the war OF
1872. except those who fought at Nj
agara and with Jackson at New Or
leans, were with Harrison at Fort Sen
eca. Among them were Lewis Cass
afterward Secretary OF State, United
states senator and Governor OF Michi-
gan, and John j. Crittenden. three
times Attorney General OF the United
states In the cabinets Of Harrison
Taylor and Fillmore. alternately sery.
ing in the United States Senate from
Kentucky. Altogether Crittenden was
in public life for f1fty-two years, and
was one of the most eminent men OF
his time.
ms nIi
rifiemen, sharpshooters from the noun
tains of Kentucky, was Richard NJ John
son, who ranks with Clay and Crittendel
as the most eminent men that state ha
produced. He was elected to Congress IL
1907. before he was of age: he left tn,
House in 1913 and went home with au
thority from Gen. Armstrong, Secretar,
of War, to organize a regiment of vol
unteers. He enlisted LOO of the fore
most young men and the best shots ir
Kentucky and marched with them Il
Harrison's camp. After the campaign
was over he dismissed his regiment nc
returned to Washington. He was elected
10 the United States Senate in 1919: was
chosen Vice President in 1896: at the enc
of his term he vas returned to the Sen
ate, and died at Frankfort in 1850
johnson Stays Tecumseh.
1t was Col. Johnson who killed Te-
naturally created a great sensation, ever
in those days when Indian warfare was
almost continuous. Johnson was moving
forward with his troops at the battle
of the Thames when an Indian chieftair
arose from the brush, fired and wounde,
him in the left arm. The bride dropped
from his hand. his gray mare sprang for
ward, the Indian advanced with uplifte,
tomahaWk and was about to strike whel
Johnson discharged his revolver. The
bullet pierced the heart of Tecumseh, an6
when he fell his Indians fled. His death
ended the battle. 1t was a short. SHARP
and decisive conflict and within an houl
after Tecumsehs death every British
soldier was a prisoner.
Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief. notori.
Gus for his cruelty and merciless il his
treatment of white prisoners: but he was
the ablest and most influential Indian o,
his period. Like Pontiac, he argued that
cooperation among the rival tribes was
the only way to resist the encroachmen'
Of the whites. and he spent the best
years of his life in ceaseless travel from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi. preaching
this doctrine and organizing a confed-
eracy. which he endeavored to turn over
to the British during the war of 1872. L,
was his plan TO turn upon the English
as soon as the Americans had been driven
out and drive them out also.
Col. Johnson marched his mounted rife
men from Fort Seneca, which is seven
miles south OF Fremont. via Toledo to
Detroit. where he joined Harrison. who
crossed the lake. as l have already told
you, on Perry's ships.
If you will look at the map you will
notice that the peninsula which forms
the Bay of Sandusky Is very narrow al
Port Clinton-only about two and a hall
miles wide between Lake Erie and San
dusky bay Across that narrow waste
Gen. Harrison built q fence of brush
from the neighboring woods and into
the Enclosure he turned the ] 400 horses
of his command before embarking for
Putin Bay When he came back from
the battle of the Thames a month later
he found them safe and in excellent con-
dition because of the pasturage. That
peninsula is now almost entirely covered
with peach orchards.
Monuments on Historic Places.
The Daughters of the Revolution. the
Daughters Of 1912 and the Colonial
Danes are erecting monuments to mark
various places along Harrisons trail. AT
the point where he embarked on Perry q
ship they have already laid the founda-
ton OF a column of boulders which will
be six feet square and twelve feet high
and will bear bronze tablets with elab-
crate Inscriptions which have been pre-
pared by Col Webb c. Hayes. who is an
IL IL