. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. ul defense by garrison has sometimesbeen called the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Inthe final siege, we are told the supply of powder havingrun low in the fort, Elizabeth Zane ran several hundredyards to the powder house and brought back a supplvsufficient to save the fort. The story of this heroic deed, according to HenryHowe, has been published a thousand times. Hemight have added and in varied version and volume 13 of the Ohio Archaeological and HistoricalSociety Publications, the writer of the contribution en-titled Zanes Tra
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. ul defense by garrison has sometimesbeen called the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Inthe final siege, we are told the supply of powder havingrun low in the fort, Elizabeth Zane ran several hundredyards to the powder house and brought back a supplvsufficient to save the fort. The story of this heroic deed, according to HenryHowe, has been published a thousand times. Hemight have added and in varied version and volume 13 of the Ohio Archaeological and HistoricalSociety Publications, the writer of the contribution en-titled Zanes Trace, makes brief mention of this ex-ploit by Elizabeth Zane, familiarly known as Betty Zane,the young sister of Ebenezer Zane. In that contri-bution is published in full the poem entitled Elizabeth (592) Reviews, Notes and CommcJits 593 Zane by John S. Adams, which first appeared in According to the poem, Elizabeth Zane wasin the fort at the time of the siege, and as already statedmade the trip, not of several hundred yards but of. ELIZABETH ZANEStatue unveiled at Martins Ferry, Ohio, May 30, 1928. about sixty yards to the powder magazine and re-turned with a supply of powder to the fort. Other accounts, however, are to the effect that Eliz-abeth Zane brought the powder from the fort to thehome of her brother. Colonel Ebenezer Zane. We quotefrom History of the Early Settlement and Indian Warsof Western Virginia, by Wills De Hass. Beginningon page 269, we find the following: Vol. XXXVII—38. 594 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications As we have already stated, Colonel Zane remained in hiscabin near the fort, during the whole siege. Finding that hissupply of powder was likely to run out, he proposed to thosepresent, that some one of them would have to visit the fort and re-new the stock. It was known to be a hazardous undertaking,and unwilling to order either of the white men to so perilous anenterprise, Colonel Zane submitted the matter to their own de-votion an
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