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Rh to the town and after charging themselves with all the copper & brass kettles they could find, and all the beans and corn they could carry, the remaining property & town was destroyed. On this same day leaving the warrior and squaw at the en- campment with abundant store of beans & corn, the expedi- tion, having 22 wagons of wounded retraced its steps arriving at the Block house, on the Vermillion on the third day the troops having drav^l no rations since the engagement. Pro- ceeding thence to Fort Harrison & Vincennes & Louisville the Capt.'s Company was mustered out of service at the lat- ter place. The Captain says that the ground selected at Tippecanoe was eminently adapted for the encampment of the expedi- tion. That Col. Davis's horse was a roan purchased of Frank Moore of Louisville, that Col. Owens was shot from the back of his own white horse & that Gen. Harrison's white horse was ridden against his order by Mr. [Waller] Taylor, his aid. The Captain, also says that the design of Gov. Harrison was that in case of attack his trooi)s should not leave the stations assigned them so long as they could not see — had his orders been followed in this regard many lives would have been spared, as the break of the plateau sheltered our men, and enabled them by lying do^^^ to return the Indians fire without being exposed.^ Bartholomew to H.^rrison th March 1811 Mss. in Indiana State Library To His Excellency William Henry Harrison Governor and Commander in chief of the Indiana Territory Sir they following gentlemen is recommended to fill the va- concies in the Militia of Clark County ss William Patrick John McCoy William Montgomery and James Bigger Captains — John Jenkins John Herrod Henry Joiles and John Chun Lieutenants — . This was written in 1862 by D. R. Poignand of Taylovsville at the dictation of Captain Funk. Pirtle, Tippecanoe, 21. Lossing visited Funl< and perhaps used this Ms5., Lossing, Field-Book War of ISIS, 204-6. notes. The first six footnotes are by the author of the Mss. or by Mr. Poignand. The reference to Harbin Moore is interesting but it is not to the famous Indiana lawyer.