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192 to watch Wayne and attack him if opportunity offered.

Instantly a score of Indian runners were hurrying south and east to Knox and Wayne with the secret code message to prepare for war. The exact date of Wayne's receipt of this message (sent from Niagara, August 23) is not recorded. It was two hours after midnight, September 24, when the express thundered into Petersburg, Kentucky, with an order to General Scott "to take the field with the Mounted Volunteers & to be at Fort Jefferson By the first of October." Hobson's Choice was the scene of intense activity as September drew to a close, and by October 5 all was in readiness for the northward