. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . Below St. Vincensuntil further orders if I am Defeated She is to Join Col. Rogers on theMississippi She has great Stores of Ammunition on Board Comd byLieut. Jno Rogers. I Shall Alarch across by Land myself with the Rest 156 INDIANA A-ND INDIANANS of My Bojs the principle persons that follow me on this forlorn hope isCaptn Joseph Bowman John Williams Edwd Worthington Richd MCarty & Frans Charlovielle Lieuts Riehd Brashears Abm Kellar AbmChaplin Jno Jerault And Jno Bayley and several other B
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . Below St. Vincensuntil further orders if I am Defeated She is to Join Col. Rogers on theMississippi She has great Stores of Ammunition on Board Comd byLieut. Jno Rogers. I Shall Alarch across by Land myself with the Rest 156 INDIANA A-ND INDIANANS of My Bojs the principle persons that follow me on this forlorn hope isCaptn Joseph Bowman John Williams Edwd Worthington Richd MCarty & Frans Charlovielle Lieuts Riehd Brashears Abm Kellar AbmChaplin Jno Jerault And Jno Bayley and several other Brave Subalterns,You must be Sensible of the feelings that I have for those Brave officersand Soldiers that are Determined to share my Fate let it be what it willI know the Case is Desperate but Sr we must Either Quit the Cuntrey orattact Mr. Hamilton no time is to be lost was I Shoer of a Reinforce-ment I should not attempt it who knows what fortune will do for usGreat things have been affected by a few Men well Conducted perhapswe may be fortunate we have this Consolation that our Cause is Just. Fort Sackville, Vincennes, Indiana, 1779 and that our Cuntrey will be greatful and not Condemn our Conduct inease we fall through if so this Cuntrey as well as Kentucky I believeis lost. Well might his heart warm to the men who joined him in that perilousundertaking. According to Bowman, 46 went in the galley, and thosewho marched were 170, including the Artillery Pack Horsemen & what a march! From the-afternoon of February 5 to the afternoonof February 23, through muddy overflowed plains, with rain fallingahnost continually, without tents, and after the 16th almost withoutprovisions except one deer killed on the 20th. The only favoring featurewas that the weather did not turn cold until the night of the 22nd, whenice formed about an inch thick. This brought the supreme effort. Onthe 23d Bowman records: Set off to cross a plain called Horse Shoe INDIANA AND INDIANANS 137 plain abo
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