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Wednesday, May 5th, 1813 - This morning about 3 oclock Gen. Harrision sent Capt. Hamilton, Capt. Shaw and one other up the river to meet Gen. Clay with orders for him to land about 700 men two miles above camp on the other side of the river, proceed down to their batteries, spike their cannon and retreat immediately back to their boats, but to come down under the cover of my battery. They complied so far as to land the men, march them down to their battery, drive them from their guns, spike some of them, take down their colors, but did not retreat as ordered; pursued the Indians into the woods until 200 of them fell into the enemies hands and 100 supposed to be killed- the rest made their escape up to their boats and arrived safe at camp. - Capt. Daniel Cushing, 2nd US Artillery
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:00:00 +0000

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