The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-29

Va ScG4 50 no wei eva V'ANe' SA'S
war In tho march Of events leading
naturally to another war, Anyway, 1t
Ii q great mistake to think that the
Revolutionary war ended in 1fal or
1888, because Ii certainly did not END
until 1894. and then some, as they
say at the moving picture snow, we
may then rightly enough say ofhahd
that the Revolutionary war began III
1854 and ended In l144, the red IN
dams being interested participants
flrst and last or Cum berland county.
Charles Scott served under Braddoch,
served under Lawson and others, ana
served under Wayne in 1874, on the
Maumee. 1t is, therefore plain that
Cumberland county, In the person al
General Scott was in the Revolution
airy war Powhatan county having
been set off from Cumberland county
during the Revolutionary war. ana
calling It's county seat SCotts'3iie
tfrom Charles ScotD, il is not Ger
tain that General Scott was not from
Powhatan county. II is certain that
General william II. Ashley, the great
ST. Louis fur trader. was from Powha-
tan county, as also Or. Branch Arch-
err, secretary OF war, etc. OF IeNas
Thus. in n sense, Powhatan county
started off In the Revolutionary var.
and did lot towards setting eft the
Mexican war.
After the Revolution. Charles Scott,
having a good deal Of military land
In Kentucky, want out there To set
fle. He had been there but a few
years when the Indians and the Brit
lsh In the Ohio country towards the
lakes began 10 get extremely ugly
In 1871 they about eXtermirateG the
army OF the ill-starred General St
Clair. There were other iatat MS
haps and for few years IL looked
an IL the United States might have
10 be bounded on tha north OF the
Ohio river by Canada But General
Anthony Wayne was placed in COM
mand tthat extraordinary PennsylNa-
nian); Kentucky sent UP a good sorce
under General Scott tChnries scott,
of Cum herland county,, and on the
26th day Of August. 1924. Wayne,
Scott, William Henry Harrison and
others. nut the red men eat Of bust
ness along the Ohio. This battle,
called the Battle of Fallen TmheTs.
was fought on the Aaumee river, "a
few miles above Toledo. Except for
the modified adjective, the following
anecdote Of the battle was told by
General Harrison, at that time aide
to General Wayne. The Indians were
concealed behind mucn fallen -.m-
Der. The battle was commenced by
ordering the regulars up. Young Har-
rison said to the COMMANDMENTS chief:
General Wayne. | am afraid You VIII
get into the fight yourself and forget
to rive me the necessary field orders
perhaps may" said General Wayne.
"and II l do, recoliect the standing
order for the day is charge the
drafted rascaie with the bayonets -
The Indians called General Wayne
.sThe Wind" Anthony Wayne knew
how TO make the machinery move.
He was an efficiency expert long
time ago.
or Powhatan county. Green Clay
Gather OF the late Cassius NJ, Clay.
went out to Kentucky about l1I1, that
ID about the time Powhatan county
stopped being Cumberland county.
Young Green Clay went to Kentucky
a. surveyor, and at that time
Kentucky surveyor was supposed 10
be about as brainy and brave as a
Philadelphia lawyer was not so long
axo supposed To be. After the Bat
tic of Fallen Timbers, our British
friends and their Indian friends
(.gentlemen Of Indiana. SO to speak !.
hated TO give up the south shore OF
the Great Lakes, and towards lslZ
public opinion In the States became
aroused. After awhile General Will
liam Henry Harrison was pat In Gem :
mand in the West, and he managed
the business extremely well. Fort
Meir.s Law a few miles from Lake
Erie. UP the Maumee river. General
Harrison was there, and the British
General Proctor gave siege TO MN.
Kentucky sent up thousand or TWO
soldiers to Join General Harrison.
General Green Clay, and they arrived
In excellent good time. General Har-
rtson knew they were coming. and he
was firm and very polite with Major
Cham be re-, who had been sent to the
fort TO demand surrender. The
demand under present circum-
stances" said General Harrison, lis
a most extraordinary one. General
proctor's present message indicates
am opinion of me that / am at a toss
to account for"
Major General Proctor
could never think of saying anything
to wound your feelings Ar. The
character of General Harrison. as an
officer is we'll known. General Proc
tors force is very respectable, and
there is with him larger body of
indians than has ever before been
embodied"
General Harrison.-"I believe I
have a very correct idea of General
Proctors force; it is not such as 10
create the least apprehension for the
result Of the contest, whatever shape
he may be pleased hereafter to give to
4 Ii. Assure the !. neral, however, that
he will never have this post sur
rendered to him upon any terms.
should it fall into his hands. it will
81 in q manner calculated TO do him
more honor, and to give him larger
claims upon the gratitude of his gov
Nfnment, than any capltulation could
POSSIBLY do"
This conversation. strictly by tho
forms Of the code. took place in March
1n13 We begin to see, SO early as
this, one or two reasons why General
Harrison was elected president in
1910. 1t will be remembered that in
mis- same war, General Harrison 9
4 mar neiGhbor In Virginia Winfield
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