The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lishinfluence, and so serious had thetroubles come to be that the tideof westward progress threatenedto cease, or at least to be this time young Harrisonannounced his in
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lishinfluence, and so serious had thetroubles come to be that the tideof westward progress threatenedto cease, or at least to be this time young Harrisonannounced his intention to en-ter the United States army. Rob-ert Morris, the celebrated finan-cier, under whose guardianshiphe had been placed, was so op-posed to the project that hewent to President Washington to consult him asto the best means of counteracting it. But thepresident overruled the financiers objections, and inApril, 1791, caused a commission to be issued to theyoung man as ensign of the 1st regiment, UnitedStates artillery, the regiment being at that time inthe heart of the Indian country, on the site of thepresent city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Not long after hejoined the command one of Gen. St. Clairs veteranswrote of him: I would as soon have thought ofputting my wife into the army as this boy, but I havebeen out with him, and I find that those smoothcheeks are on a wise head, and that slight form isIII.— ^ y^/^a^Z^t^^^^n^ almost as tough as any ones weather-beaten performance of duty was such as soon drew tohim the attention of Gen. Anthony Wayne, whosucceeded St. Clair after the disastrous defeat of thelatters army by Indians, Nov. 19, 1791, and dur-ing the next year he was made a lieutenant. It isnoted that he had already learned one lesson notalways learned by military men, the value of pei-fectsobriety in spite of all temptation to the use of in-toxicating liquors. Dec. 33, 1793, a strong detach-ment of infantry and artillery occupied the groundwhere St. C
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