Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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the garrison were a few feet from the walls. It wasa post of much clanger, liable at any moment to be attacked. The site of this fort is about three miles southwest of. Kenton, and not avestige of it now remains. It must have been an exceedingly dreary spot andlargely fatal to the soldiers, as it is in the vicinity of the great Scioto marsh.The graves of sixteen of the garrison are near by. The prompt building of thisfort reflects great credit upon the foresight of Governor Meigs. On the 11th ofJune, 1812, one week before the declaration of war, he despatched DuncanM7Arthur with a regiment of soldiers from Urbanna, to open a road in advanceof HulFs army and build a stockade at the crossing of the Scioto. On the 19thHull arrived with the residue of his army. His trace is still discernible, aftera lapse now of seventy-seven years, in various places through the northwesterncounties as he passed on his way to Detroit. Not a vestige of the fort now re- Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846. Kenton.
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HARDIN COUNTY. mains, but remnants of M? Arthurs corduroy through the boggy forest are yet tobe found. On page 705 is a sketch of Thomas CokeWright, who gave for our first edition thisinteresting incident. It was at one timecommanded by Captain Robert MClelland,who recently died in Greene county. Hewas brave, and when roused, brave to rash-ness. While he commanded at Fort MAr-thur, one of his men had gone a shortdistance from the walls for the purpose ofpeeling bark. While he was engaged on atree, he was shot twice through the body, bya couple of Indians in ambush, whose rifleswent off so near together that the reportswere barely distinguishable. He uttered onepiercing scream of agony, and ran with al-most superhuman speed, but fell before hereached the fort. An instant alarm wasspread through the garrison, as no doubtwas entertained but that this was thecommencement of a general attack, whichhad been long expected. Instead of shuttingthe gates to keep out danger, MClellandseized his

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