Chapter III
Wayne County in the War of 1812 - Rodes Garth --

In the War of 1812 Wayne County took a part far out of proportion to her population. These men were almost all Revolutionary Soldiers, or their sons from Southwest Virginia and the northwestern part of North Carolina, and when the call came they came eagerly. The first volunteers from Wayne left August 24, 1812 under Captain Taul. At the same time David McNair led a company from Cumberland County, and William Cross one from this section of Kentucky. These were all among the Kentucky Volunteers called in August for six month's service.

Micah Taul in his Memoirs says (of his company): "At the call for volunteers, Captain James Jones volunteered as a private as did Captain Lewis Coffey and Micah Taul. Rodes Garth was Judge Advocate. He was a member of the Monticello bar and was afterwards frequently elected to the Legislature. Micah Taul was elected Captain and led his men to St. Marys, Ohio, where they spent the winter. They were discharged March, 1813, at Cincinnati. They reached Monticello the third Sunday in March."

In June, 1813, General Harrison made a requisition on Governor Shelby for 5,000 mounted volunteers. Governor Shelby took command in person. Captain Taul raised a company in Wayne of which the roster will be given below. On reaching headquarters, Taul was promoted to colonel, and Miller was made captain to succeed him. They advanced to Lake Erie where Taul became ill and was sent to Detroit. The battle of the Thames was fought October, 1813, and the Americans were almost exclusively Kentuckians, says Taul. Of his mounted volunteers he says, "It was the finest company in the state. They aroused admiration as they went through Lexington." He speaks of them at length in his Memoirs, an extract from which has been given in Chapter II.

The roster of Captain William Cross's Company of volunteers of August, 1812:

Captain Cross; Lieutenant James Cowan; Ensign Henry Gabbert; Sergeants, Thomas Logan, Samuel Cowan, John Owens, Corporals William Montgomery, John Carter, Andrew Cowan; Drummer, William Ford; Fifer, Thomas Franklin; Privates, Josiah Beckett, Alfred Ballew, George Bromley, William Bright, Isaiah Burcham, Abel Blankenship, John Carpenter, William Cooksey, Thomas Cowan, James Calhoun, John Cooksey, Benjamin Clark, Thomas M. Flowers, David Gabbert, John Gross, Zebedee Hawley, Asa Harper, James Harper, James Kennedy, William Ledford, Abraham Lester, Samuel Linn, Thomas Mills, James Martin, David Murray, Lott R. Mathews, Zerah Martin, Isaac Miller, James Mackey, Lewis Right, William Savage, Alexander Smith, Richard Scott, Andrew Smalley, Jacob Speck, James Wood, John Witham, Zephaniah Worsley, Jesse Wells, John Young, Jr.

The names of the men composing Captain Taul's company from Wayne were:
Captain, Micah Taul; Lieutenant, Joseph H. Woolfolk; Ensign, John Bartleson; First Sergeant, James Givens; Fourth Sergeant, John Shannon; First Corporal, John Dodson; Third Corporal, Thomas C Pemberton; Fourth Corporal, Noah Wilhite; Drummer, William Cowan; Fifer, Stephen Hines; Privates, Joshua Baxter, Welsher Buckhannon, William Barnes, William Blair, John Buster, Esquire Baker, James Cotton, Tillman Cullom, Edward N. Cullom, Lewis Coffey, Alexander Davis, Solomon Dunagan, John Dick, Thomas Decker, Daniel East, North East, Walter Emerson, Samuel England, John Easter, David East, Jesse Flinn, Samuel Ford, John Foster, John Garovir, James LeGrand, Mordecai Gregory, Rodes Garth, Anderson Garland, John Hicks, Parkman Howard, William Hall, Samuel Ingraham, Augustus Johnson, Benjamin Jones, James Jones, William Jones, James Langston, Cyrus Logan, Jonathan Moore, William Miller, John Montgomery, John M. Newell, Daniel Peveyhouse, Joab Rowe, George Rudd, James Ridgeway, John Ray, John Roberts, William Summers, Richard Savage, John Shrewsbury, Jacob Souther, James Tuttle, Henry Tuttle, Moses Tucker, John Tuller, Thomas Terrell, David Vestol, Isaac Van Winkle, Micajah Van Winkle, Adam Vickery, Valentine Worley, Isaac West, Ballenger Wade, John Wright, James Young.

Rodes Garth kept a journal of the daily occurrences in Captain Taul's Company, beginning with their departure August 24, 1812. This journal was loaned, by one of Garth's descendants, to Judge James A. Phillips, editor of the Wayne County Outlook, and was published in this paper in 1898. A copy is subjoined. It will be remembered that there were seven companies that went out in 1812, under the command of Colonel Barbee, to fight the British. We have heretofore given the names of two of these companies, commanded respectively by Captains Micah Taul and William Cross. Below we give the names of the company commanded by Captain David D. McNair, of Cumberland City. The four other companies of the regiment were commanded by Captains James Barbee, of Mercer, Peter Jordan, also of Mercer, Garret Peterson, of Washington, and John Shelby, of Adair.

The names of those composing the company are: Captain David McNair from Cumberland City, Geo. Allen, Lieutenant, Nimrod Maxwell, Ensign, Wm. Cole, Wm. Morgan, Lemuel Stockdon, Elijah Christman, Nathan Martin, David Spicer, George Martin, Henry Winters, Jas. Price, Wm. Wisdom, Francis Wisdom, Isah Cuzzart, Richard Blackwood, Gardner Green, Richmond Green, John Harvey, Henry Lacy, Jacob Shutts, Abednago Bays, Wm. Chamberland, Jo Weaver, John Wisdom, Josiah Akin, Wm. Smith, Anthony Pennington, Arthur Carri- gan, Gilbert Rollin, Michael Crews, John Shutts, Labsum Thurman, Isaac Harris, Wm. Degraffenreed, Wm. Brook, James Brown, John Smith, Sr., Asa Elliot, Wm. A. Walthal, John Mary, Chas. Hibbitts, John Obanion, Joseph Larton, John Onton, Wm. Macksey, Josiah Cheatham, Ezekiel Dop, Elijah Michel, Robert Lawton, John Holland, Isher Stockton, John Smith, Sr., Isaac Rayfield, Wm. Carter, Wm. A. Lucke, Andrew Long, Nathan Cary, James Wisdom.

"FORWARD MARCH"

(We copy from the Journal)

Captain Taul and company of volunteers generally started from Monticello under the command of General Henry Harrison on the 24th day of August, 1812, the expedition of six months against the Indians and British and marched as far as Cumberland River and camped.

August 25, Isaac West returns home and the company continues their march to Maple Swamp at a seat of North East, Esqr. and camped during the night.

August 26, they marched through Stanford, arrived at Danville in the evening, joined Captain Barbee's Company, marched together five miles beyond Danville and were hospitably treated by the citizens of the town and county without cost, and a large number of people were collected.

August 27, the companies returned through Danville and camped at Fisher's pond, about a mile off in the direction to New- port, our expedition being changed by General Hull's surrender of Detroit.

August 28, the company continue their march and camped near Nicholasville.

August 29, continued our march and camped on the road from Nicholasville to Frankfort. The citizens on the road very kindly affording necessaries to the company.

August 30, ordered to change our course, we continued our march and camped on the road in a direction to Georgetown; Captain Taul very sick.

August 31, Captain Taul mends a little; continue our march and in the evening arrived at Georgetown, in the bosom of a polished and generous people. Captain Taul much mended.

September 1, 1812. We left Georgetown about 1 o'clock and continued our march to Little Eagle and camped. Jas. Jones discharged for bodily infirmity.

September 2, continued our march and camped in the evening on Dry Ridge, which is forty miles long and on it is some good land.

September 3, continued our march and in the evening camped at Brumbacks and James Dunigan discharged.

September 4, continued our march and in the evening camped at the foot of Dry Ridge on Banklick creek.

September 5, continued our march on this day and two or three past met many cowards and women and children, leaving the Ohio and its frontier, some going to Virginia and Kentucky for safety; in the evening camped at Newport on the bank of the Ohio river at which place we overtook Colonel Poage's Regiment of Dragoons from Kentucky.

September 6, continued at Newport from the 5th to the 13th, performing military evolutions and Colonel Poage's and Simeral's regiments crossed the Ohio river, saluted with a discharge of cannon as they cross. The balance of our regiment arrive.

September 13, Portman Howard and George Neal were left sick. We crossed the Ohio river, saluted with a discharge of cannon, marched through Cincinnati and camped ten miles on our road to Dayton, it being a cold wet day.

September 14 and 15, continued our march, passed Lebanon, a fine town, and country very flourishing, and the people generally more patriotic than about Cincinnati. September 16, continued our march and arrived at Dayton on the great Miami river about 11 o'clock a. m. the adjacent country rich and this a flourishing town about 57 miles North of Cincinnati just below the confluence of Still Water and Mad rivers in the great Miami. Poage's, Jennings', and Barbee's Regiments, 400 mounted men and a company of light horse ready to march. About 11 o'clock a certain athletic young man huzzaed for Hull and cursed the Kentuckians, and said they would not dare show their faces in his presence. They ducked him and made him run the gauntlet about a mile with many severe bruises. On the West of Dayton is a large settlement of Dunkards who depend upon their heels, and mercy of the savages rather than to resist them.

September 17. We started to Piqua, the most of us waded the river and camped 5 miles on the road in a field and on the same evening five beehives were pressed by some of our Regiment.

September 18. Continued our march in the morning through the ruins of a Hurricane, the timber prostrated upon the ground about a quarter of a mile long. It is said it happened in the twinkling of an eye, with a great noise. We passed through level country until we came near the Miami river and found rich land on and near it. We passed Staunton, crossed the Miami and we were at Troy, a small country town and camped in a field near the banks of the great Miami river, met a great number of Ohio Militia returning from Fort Wayne and understood General Harrison had started a few days before from Fort Wayne for the town of the Potawatomies with 1,500 men.

September 19- Continued our march, arrived at Piqua about 10 o'clock with Jennings' and Poage's regiments and several hundred mounted riflemen. Colonel Jennings' regiment starts to St. Mary's. Piqua an elegant county seat. Three men deserted us and were brought back and kept on guard till the next day.

September 20, Sunday Poage's regiment and the mounted men start to St. Mary's.By the order of the colonel a wooden horse was prepared and our Regiment formed in a hollow square and the three deserters arraigned, and by their great entreaty and fair promises to the colonel they were pardoned. In the evening one Indian came into camp, and an express from Harrison that he had burned and destroyed five Indian towns, 120 acres of corn and upward of 70 head of cattle and no Indians seen. Dry and cold.

September 21. Monday. Still camped at Piqua waiting further orders, nothing of importance transpires. Three Indian squaws came in a detachment under Captain Barber from our Regiment consisting of 40 men of Rodes Garth and others, order to be ready to start the next day to escort upwards of 200 head of cattle to St. Marys.

September 22. Tuesday. Rodes Garth, John Garner, and John Shrewsbury, and the rest start to guard the beeves from Piqua to St. Marys, upwards of 30 miles through a wilderness, pass through a tolerably level country of second-rate land, meet about 60 wagons and 200 Ohio men returning home from Fort Wayne, camped the same evening at Fort Lawremy on a river of the same name running in the great Miami, here we had very bad water to use.

September 23. Wednesday. Started from Fort Lawremy with the cattle, met about 45 wagons, a number of Kentucky and Ohio troops returning from Fort Wayne, passing through second- rate, level soil to St. Marys which place arrived about [ ?] o'clock, with all the beeves safe, and camped that night here, here found Captain James Logan, an Indian and nine or ten others who were friendly to us, and overtook Colonel Jennings' and Colonel Poage's Regiments, who are employed in cutting a road from St. Marys to Defiance about 60 miles through a howling wilderness.

September 24. Thursday. Captain Barbee and his detachment ordered to guard the public stores at St. Marys. General Harrison goes to Piqua to Barbee's regiment and Colonel Finley, of Ohio with 150 of Ohio volunteers marched against the Tiowa Indians.

September 25. Our detachment still stationed and guarding the public stores; a porcupine taken and brought into camp and one killed; Colonel Poage's Regiment employed in improving the fort at St. Marys, and Colonel Jennings' regiment marched and still employed in cutting the road to Defiance and ordered to build a blockhouse about halfway to Defiance.

September 26. Saturday. Our detachment still employed in guarding the public stores; Rodes Garth, John Garner, and John Shrewsbury take a small tour in the prairie to the west of St. Marys and behold in prospect farther than the eye can see, 20 miles or more. Not a tree or shrub about the prairie. Three miles broad in the general, a grand prospect for those who never saw the like. Here is grass thickly set from five to six feet high, tall majestic trees ranging on either side, and sometimes penetrating the glades or prairie a few hundred yards. Here the western sun sinks below the grass in the western horizon and gradually disappears into night; the site of St. Marys an elegant place and country for farmers, the land level and rich, the prairie affording hay and grass for the horses of the army, sufficient for a million horses.

September 27. Sunday. Still employed at the public stores at St. Marys; Colonel Barbee's regiment arrive from Piqua and Colonel Findley's detachment return from the Tiowa Town of Indians of the Northeast, after burning it and 70 acres of corn; no Indians seen, having fled a few days before; one man of the detachment killed by going beyond the lines of the sentry unknown to the sentinel, who shot him; a deserter from Captain McNary's Company brought back and pardoned by the Colonel.

September 28. Monday. Colonel Barbee's Regiment remain waiting for farther orders; General Harrison returns sometime in the night; a guard under Richard Johnson bring six Miami chiefs from Ft. Wayne to St. Marys to treat with General Harrison, who were taken near Ft. Wayne to St. Marys to treat with Harrison, and taken to Ft. Wayne as spied by Colonel Simeral's regiment. They are large tall sprightly men, the principal chief called Rising Sun; they are well dressed, painted with red and black paint, ornamented with silver, a large war club, a battle ax and bows and arrows brought with them. They are said to be great archers, about 250 warriors, living upon the head waters of the Wabash and adjoining the Potawatomies.

September 29- Tuesday. The six Indians brought into camp before General Harrison and for the want of an efficient interpreter detained, hospitably treated; Colonel Simeral's troop of light horse and all the mounted men return from Ft. Wayne and camp at St. Marys. A great number of friends gladly meet and salute each other.

September 30. Wednesday. This day Captain Barbee and detachment are relieved from guarding the public stores and join the Regiment. This a fine clear day and Colonel Barbee's Regiment marched one mile in the great prairie and mustered, and performed many military evolutions with great skill; whilst we were mustering an express arrived from General Winchester near Ft. Defiance that the advanced troops under him were likely to be attacked by 2,000 or 3,000 British and Indians, and that he had five spies killed and scalped by them, laying in ambush, Colonel Barbee's and Poage's Regiments and the light horse and riflemen present, quick as possible got ready to march to Defiance and by an hour before sundown marched and the same evening camped on the road about six miles from St. Marys all baggage and tents being left, each man taking provisions enough to supply him three days and stagnated branch water tasted very well. The road level and rich, low land.

October 1. Thursday. The sentinels are heard before day, fired two guns and an alarm raised and in less than five minutes the whole army was in battle array, the alarm being over each man took a broil or snack and by the time it was clearly light the army marched. About 8 o'clock it commenced hard raining and continued the whole day. We marched upwards of 24 miles through the mud and rain, our ammunition being much damaged by the rain, and another express met us and informed General Harrison, that the Indians and British had retreated down the river towards the rapids from Ft. Defiance. General Harrison and all the light horse and mounted men, push forward for Defiance, and our two Regiments at night camped on the Oglaves at a block house commenced by Colonel Jennings' Regiment. Before our arrival Colonel Jennings' Regiment were hourly expecting an attack from the Indians and had made considerable breast work around their camp. It continued to rain hard all night. We made fires on the cold wet ground and lodged without tents or whiskey, the Oglave here about 40 yards wide and a great quantity of first rate land.

October 2. Friday. Colonel Jennings engaged in finishing the block house and Colonel Barbee's and Poage's Regiments ordered to cut the road to Defiance about 30 miles, our Regiment finish drying their clothes, clean their guns, and dry their ammunition, several of the Shawnee Indians follow General Harrison. Our Regiment on half rations and no whiskey.

October 3. Saturday. This day Colonel Barbee's Regiment started to clean the road and guard the cattle to Defiance and proceeded about two or three miles, and an express met us from General Harrison directing our Regiment to return to St. Marys, to guard the place and to wait further orders, the Regiment with not half rations in the evening started to St. Marys and camped the same evening about seven miles on the bank of the Oglaves. The most of us had to regale ourselves with hackberries, grapes, haws, hazelnuts, and crabapples the day being wet and dry by turns.

October 4. Sunday. We marched early in the morning and arrived at St. Marys very hungry at about 3 o'clock, about 23 miles. A dry piece of bread was a great rarety to us. At St. Marys we found 500 Ohio mounted men waiting to join General Harrison and we are informed that the Indians are again around Ft. Wayne, had killed two of our men and a boy had killed one of them.

October 5. Monday. This day cold and rainy by turn and a very frosty night and 76 of the Ohio mounted men start to Defiance to guard the wagons and John Gloover starts to see General Harrison.

October 6. Tuesday. This a clear day General Harrison with the 76 Ohio men and the mounted men under Colonel R. M. Johnson from Kentucky return from Ft. Defiance, the Kentucky mounted men about to return home, being discharged by General Harrison. We are informed that the troops in advance had suffered much for provisions and clothing had become impatient and were addressed by General Harrison and by his promises were better satisfied. Here met a number of old acquaintances and about to start home indulged the social glass, Captain Joseph Boyd and Harrison Mundy of the first troops from Kentucky, attended at Captain Taul's markee after night with some of our Regiment and drank a few bumpers. Captain Mundy was one of about 17 spies of the advanced army who were attacked by 60 Indians. He charged upon them and drove them and as he says, bragged them out of the victory. Captain I. Boyd was among the foremost with Major R. M. Johnson in burning one of the greatest Indian towns, and he said in one of our glasses, he would not desire more than three men and three good tooting horns and he would toot all the Indians through the country and make them run before him. Nearly half the mounted men lately assembled from the Ohio State disorderly, and dishonorably leave their camp and return home.

October 7. Wednesday. The troops under Colonel R. M. Johnson from Kentucky start back home. General Harrison formed the remaining mounted men of Ohio in a close column about four hundred men under the immediate command of Colonel Trimble, and to be under the command of General Tupper when he should join them about 12 o'clock. They were addressed by General Harrison in substance as follows:

"Fellow soldiers and citizens, by my orders and request you have assembled at this place for an expedition as yet to you unknown. With you I have a common pride for the State of Ohio for I was a citizen of it in a territorial state and was your first representative in Congress. I knew there must be some influential, disaffected men from Ohio, otherwise such a number of troops would not have thus disorderly left their camp and deserted the best interests of their country. The valor of the citizens of Kentucky is great. I have under my command now from that state about 5,000 men, and 2,400 mounted men are on the waters of the Wabash. I know your valor is equally as great but greater it cannot be. "My views since I requested you to assemble at this place have changed. I was then a Brigadier General, and it was then my intention, with about 2,500 mounted men by a speedy march to surprise and retake Detroit. Since then I have been appointed a Major General of all the Northwestern army and I feel it my duty to command and be with them. We would be in a deplorable situation were we all to march now and our provisions and communication be cut off. I have therefore planned a small but important expedition for you to execute under General Tupper, of our own state, and which will be made known to you in due time. The expedition is one to which you are completely adequate. I have provided spies and guides to take you a route unexpected to the Indians, and their towns most contiguous to Ft. Wayne by which you may surprise the Indians before they hear and fly your approach. The Kentuckians have turned, not regarding horses or pay, if they should be well paid by Congress, if not they are satisfied, for property to them is nothing when put in competition with their dearest rights and liberties when invaded by the Indians and British. And if liberty and personal security are incentives to valor in the Kentuckians, much more should it be to the people of Ohio. For should the views of Government and this army be defeated, let me ask you who would be the first and greatest sufferers, you or the Kentuckians? You certainly would. I know then for your own security and safety, the pride and patriotism of your state among the Union, you will not shrink from your duty and the best interest of your country because feed is not provided for your horses and you may not have the greatest certainty of pay. If the little corn of this place was delivered to you your horses might have two or three feeds a piece, but the wagons bearing provisions to the advanced and advancing army must stop and the great object of retaking Detroit and Maiden this season must fail. As to pay, you are better situated than the Kentuckians, for I am informed that by the laws of your state provisions are made for payment of expense of troops called out by your Governor. You then have a double lien for compensation to the Kentuckians. But you as free agents have come here to defend your own rights and not that of kings and nobles as in England and other despotic countries, and now unless you are willing to march I do not want you to go. Although during this campaign I am your General in a little time my power will cease, I shall mingle with you but without any more power than any one of you, and in some future campaign your children may be chief commander and my own common soldiers. If but 20 men turn out Colonel Trimble must take them and march but had rather you all would go on the expedition." Colonel Trimble then addressed them thus: "Shoulder arms! All you who are for marching on the expedition will face to the right and march to the right and all you for returning face to the left and march to the left." The patriotic band with but few exceptions marched to the right, fixed their guns and huzzaed for joy and general approbation— an interesting scene. Colonel Barbee's regiment still employed in guarding beeves and the public stores and improving their encampment. General Harrison leaves St. Marys to meet the Pennsylvania and Virginia troops, about 2,500 in number, bearing of cannon and etc., which compose the right wing. The Ohio troops under General Tupper, the center and the Kentucky troops under Generals Winchester and Paine to compose the left wings.

October 8. Thursday. The most of the Kentucky mounted men for 30 days return home very much fatigued and horses very poor. News reaches camp that one of the detachment to Ft. Wayne was shot by an Indian and slightly wounded. Each of them fired. Also that a man was wounded near Ft. Jennings and one killed and scalped on the opposite shore, near Ft. Defiance. This day John Bartleson, Ensign Berry Hinds, Welsher Buchanan, Joseph McMillan, and Daniel Peveyhouse, make a small scout of eight or ten miles to the Northwest of St. Marys for Indians but saw none and found the country by turns rich, swampy, and level.

October 9. Friday. Colonel Simeral's regiment of light horse arrive at St. Marys much fatigued and hungry.

October 10. Saturday. Colonel Barbee's regiment still stationed at St. Marys and Colonel Simeral's Regiment of Light Dragoons. Two men died and were buried with the honors of war. We are informed that considerable baggage of the army of the Wabash was taken by the Indians and several of the guards killed.

October 11. Sunday. This a cold wet day and a certain Mr. Offerd of the light horse came into camp and stated that on the evening before he was hunting his horse two or three miles from camp without arms that two Indians came up to him and compelled him to go to their camp. They tied his hands with a handkerchief. That they had several horses and in a hard rain he slipped his hands loose and made his escape from their pursuit. Major McDowell with about 60 troops of light horse pursue them, find their camp fire and sign of horses, but they left it in such a manner that they could not be pursued. Colonel Simeral and Regiment start to Piqua and the settlement to recruit themselves and horses. John Dick, James Tuttle, and Thomas C. Pemberton of our company very sick. Wagons and 200 bullocks start to Ft. Defiance escorted with about 108 men under Captains Burnett and Jordan. Colonel Barbee broke his cane over one of Captain Sherley's men because he refused to march, which rendered him considerably unpopular with the soldiers and many of the officers. Adjutant John Powell hurt his knee and leg against a stump in a fray with one of the men. The Rules of War in this instance by them trampled upon and disregarded.

October 12. Monday. This a clear day a cold night and frost and the most of the Regiment closely employed in stockading of about four acres around and adjoining the fort. Hickabod Stogdon starts on an express to Ft. Wayne a very dangerous route. John Johnson, the Indian agent, informs us that the Indians brought in here to treat for the Miami tribe were spies and that they had solicited the Delawares three times to take up arms against the Union and that they meditated an attack in the latter end of October. The sick of our company recovering.

October 13. Tuesday. This a clear day the sick recovering and our regiment employed in stockading. About twenty of the Shawnee men and squaws came into camp riding with corn, potatoes, moccasins, broaches and etc., for sale. The squaws ride a- straddle on their horses; expert traders clothed with moccasins, leggins, of blue and red cloth and petty coats of the same kind with the border near their ancles, a calico shirt and a clean white blanket with a handkerchief around their head their hair long and platted affect to be very ignorant of our language. They are considered by us to be very treacherous and deceitful some of them in features resembling a little some of our acquaintances in Kentucky. About 8 o'clock at night Alexander Davis a sentinel fired a gun at noise approaching him, our Regiment instantly formed in a few minutes the alarm ceased and we were ordered to our tents. An hour before day Robert Lawrence starts on express to Ft. Wayne proceeded about two miles saw two Indians on the road one whistled in his charger, which was again returned further up the road he said and that it was prudent to return.

October 14. Wednesday. The company mostly recovered, this a clear morning and warm sunshine, animating all to labor and industry. Being closely engaged in stockading and doing much work, a party having started early in the morning to scour the adjacent country and saw no Indians. About 20 of the Ohio troops desert from Colonel Trimble, forgetting their patriotic tender or services and say on tomorrow one Major and about 100 would be in our camp. The danger, fatigue, and fear of losing their horses induced them to return. It appears that one reason of the general combination of the Indians against us was produced from a belief that a large number of their Ohio neighbors were cowards, their bravery but a parade, that they had nothing to fear from them, when only the name of a Kentuckian cast a damp over their spirits and they generally retreat before them. Many pheasants, black squirrels, and pigeons killed in small scouts near camp.

October 15. Thursday. This a clear warm day and Major Edward with nearly 100 men return disgracefully from their voluntary expedition, without doing anything but drawing and rating the United States provisions and leaving Colonel Trimble near Ft. Wayne. Joseph H. Wolfolk, lieutenant, with Welsher Buchanan, Daniel Peveyhouse, John Havens, and Sam Ingram took a scout for Indians eight or nine miles to the Northwest of St. Marys, but saw no fresh sign, found one United States horse in their route. The Regiment nearly well and still engaged in stockading.

October 16. Friday. This a clear warm day and Captain Taul, Mordecai Gregory, Lewis Coffey, W. Emerson, N. East, N. Newell.and 60 men from our Regiment start to guard the wagons "and packhorses from this place to Ft. Jennings. And Rodes Garth starts to Dayton to receive 1,700 gallons of whiskey for the army. The stockading finished and a six-pounder twice fired.

FROM MICAH TAUL'S MEMOIRS

The Wayne soldiers spent the winter at St. Marys, Ohio, an uneventful period, and returned to Wayne, arriving the third Sun- day in March. They were met at the Cumberland River which was the line between Pulaski and Wayne (Burnside) by a large number of people on the Wayne shore, among them Anthony Gholson, then near 80. At the homes, on the way from there to Monticello, people had gathered to welcome them. Ensign Bartleson, a very worthly young man and excellent officer, was riding with me as were two or three more of the company who remained with us. The next day was county court day and I had the pleasure of taking by the hand the fathers and brothers of the young men who had been in my care for the preceding six months.

Shortly after, the patriotic citizens of Wayne gave us a barbecue. It was on a large scale and I delivered an address to them in which I endeavored to do justice to the worthy men who had served under me. In the second campaign—Sergeant Thomas Miller was a bold, energetic man. He made a fine officer, later removed to Missouri and died early. Company returned in October and were discharged at Maysville, Kentucky.

The soldiers who went with Colonel Taul have been immortalized in his Memoirs and Rodes Garth's journal and a tardy recognition is here given to those who fought with Captain Adam Vickery under Colonel Slaughter at New Orleans. Smith's History of the Battle of New Orleans says:

"No troops engaged on the American side did more fatal execution upon the enemy's rank and file than did these Kentucky troops. Every man of the regiment was in rifle range and all did deadly work." Captain Adam Vickery's Company, Slaughter's Regiment, Kentucky Detached Militia commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Slaughter included:

Lieutenant John Garner
Ensign John Barrow
Sergeant Hiram Gregory
Sergeant Thomas Brown
Sergeant Moses Barnes
Sergeant Alexander Brown
Sergeant Harmon EIrod
Corporal William Hurt
Corporal George Dodson
Corporal Thomas Ryan
Corporal Lapsley Hall


Privates:

James Ard
Andrew Alexander
Peter Acre
Owen Burnham
John Bell
John Ballard
James Burnett
James Baker
Stephen Baker
William Barnes
Willis Bowman
Enos Barnes
Lewis Brown
Barnabas Brown
Cornelius Bertram
John Craig
John Casson
William Coughron
Enos Cook
David Cox
Caleb Cooper
John Duffey
James Dean
William Davis
Charles Dabney
Adam Elrod
John Foster
Jesse Gray
Samuel Gholson
Stephen Gibson
Abraham Gooding
Thomas Gibson
William Hill
Henry Hall
John Kennedy
William Kogar
John Lee
John Luster (Lester)
James Lenn
Henry Lambert
Robert Livingston
George Miller
Solomon McGowan
Ulysses Mills
David Moore
David Mays
Jesse Neal Alexander Row
John Ray
John Southwood
John Shaw
John Shelton
John Savage
James Shelton
William Smith
Peter Stephens
Henry Smith
Thomas Stephens
George Smith
William Sallee
John Tiller
John Thornton
John Wade
James Woods
Joshua Welsher
Joseph West
Elisha Wade
Daniel Wray
Barnabas Wallace
John Willis

At least one company of the Fifty-third Regiment, Kentucky Militia, was organized in Wayne in 1805-1806. The tax list of those years and thereafter until 1825, shows the names of the officers. These were Joshua Buster, William Jones, Adam Vickery, Lewis Coffey, captains, with various officers of lower rank noted in the 1812 muster rolls. Micah Taul tells of succeeding William Jones as captain at the outbreak of the war. By that time, in Wayne, as in the rest of the state, the militia had been gradually disbanded. When the War of 1812 came on, the Wayne division was a fairly well-knit, though informal, organization that responded to General Harrison's call for volunteers in the Western Campaign and to Governor Shelby's call the next year. They also took part in the Southern Campaign, culminating in the Battle of New Orleans. Samuel Ingram, son of James Ingram, was born in Virginia about 1793- When nineteen years old, he enlisted at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, and served from August 23, 1812, until March 23, 1813, as a private in Captain Micah Taul's Company of Kentucky Militia. He married November 14, 1813, in Wayne County, Kentucky, Elizabeth Parmley. He died February 22, 1881, at his home which was about live miles east of Monticello, Kentucky. Elizabeth Parmley Ingram born about 1794, died about 1894. She was allowed a pension on her application executed June 18, 1881, at which time she was eighty-seven years of age and was living in Wayne County about six miles southwest of Monticello with her daughter.

The records of the War Department show that James Jones served in the War of 1812 as a private in Captain Micah Taul's Company of Infantry, Seventh (Barbee's) Regiment, Kentucky Militia. He is shown to have entered the service August 23, 1812, to serve six months, and to have been discharged for bodily infirmity, date of discharge not shown.

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