42 the ruins of Schoenbrunn, his imagination conjured up the skeletons of the victims of Williamson's men filing along the banks of the Tuscarawas, led by one Ann Charity, They were chanting the Indian song of sorj row and calling on-—not our God—but their Manitto or Great Spirit to avenge their death. Williamson, who was second in command, rested in the tent with Crawford, and’ shuddered as the latter told him what he had seen, and peering into the darkness listened in vain for the sound of the gnomes. As soon as daylight appeared the commander ordered his four hundred troopers into their saddles. They galloped westward out of the valley, crossing the Tuscarawas between Stone Creek and Sugar Creek. Thence they went rapidly toward Sandusky. Upon reaching the huts of the Delawares they found them deserted. Pressing on to the Wyandot town, now called Upper Sandusky.’ they found the inhabitants had fled. Another mile, and a council of war was held and it was decided to retreat in case no Indians were found by nightfall. This was on the afternoon of June 4th. The scouts soon came in reporting the savages coming, and in a few
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