Ohio History Journal
LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786.
(From the Draper MSS., Wisconsin
Historical Society Archives.)
Mr. Henry Hall was out on this campaign.
Were some
8 or 9 hundred men-Colos. James Garrard,
Benj. Harrison,
Thos. Kennedy, and Hugh McGary were the
principal officers
under Logan.
When Logan reached Meckacheck, some 18
or 20 Indians
remained, and the men rode after and
killed them most all. Capt.
Irvine and others were pursuing an
Indian with a broken thigh,
& did not rush upon him as quick as
they ought-he snapped
several times at Irvine, who thought the
gun was empty; finally
the Indian shot him in the breast, while
on horseback-Irvine
died that night. Rhody Stafford, was on
the look for the same
Indian (hid in the tall grass-vide Gen.
Lee's statement-L. C.
D.) & coming forward in the search,
when he received a shot
under the collar bone-then one of the
men ran up & shot the
Indian in the head. Stafford died at
Maysville on the return of
the troops. Wm. Rout was wounded.
Moluntha's Town was about a mile from Mackacheck,
at the
head of the prairie. There was Moluntha,
& his queen & several
others-some 15 or 20 prisoners, one or
two of whom were white
girls-one of these was badly cut by one
of the Colonels mis-
taking her for an Indian. After the
prisoners had been taken
an hour, McGary went up to Moluntha, who
had about his per-
son a good many silver trinkets &
jewelry, and asked-"Do you
remember the Blue Lick
Defeat?" "Yah, I do,"
replied Mo-
luntha-upon which McGary cursed him, and
snatched a squaw
hatchet from the queen & with two
blows killed Moluntha. Don't
recollect about McGary cutting the
queen's fingers off. McGary
was much blamed-it had been strictly
ordered, that no prisoners,
after having surrendered, should be
injured. No recollection
about McGary's justifying himself for
the act.
Next day went & took McKee's Town, 6
or 7 miles off-it
was deserted; and burned these &
some half a dozen on the Big
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