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From the Globe.
Jealousy, Ingratitude, and Treachery or
General Harrison.
The instance of cruel injustice committed
by Harrison in throwing the pall of his report
umu ui vjui. uumi iumer, who led,
what Harrison and his friends now call the
uiusi urimani sortie in our military annals,
wuceu iu a recent number of our paper.
Harrison, but a few davs hpfnr
led with Col. Miller, and his yet unappeased
resentment was supposed by Col. Miller and
his friends to have induced the General to
omit, m the hrst recital of the names of the
gallant officers who performed the glorious
achievement, that of the leader of the forlorn
hope, to whose personal courage and skilful
and judicious conduct of the action left entire
ly to his discretion, its success is attributable.
But the case of deliberate perhdity, to which
we would now invite attention. bhVht in r thn
laurels won by a striplina in his- armv. no
temporary excitement can be even supposed
to lend the slightest mitumtinn. C.nA tr
ishness, enduring for twenty-six vears. char
acterizes the yet unrepaired wronff. The in
jured officer was one who volunteered before
he reached manhood, to serve Harrison in
in his Tippecanoe campaign. On the bloody
night of the surprise, he acted as the aid of
Boyd the Commander of the fourth regiment.
and all know and admit, that to the admirable
skill and firmness with which this body of
men were made like a rampart to cover the
camp, and the broken militia, Harrison and
his army owe their deliverance from total de
struction. The same vounir .hpm. uhn
j 0 , u
voice and bcanusr, amidst the darkness and
dismay at Tippecanoe, inspired with invinci
ble courage, veterans to whom he bore orders
of their Colonel, was conspicuous again in
that glorious sortie at Fort Meigs, which
gave some light to the day which the butchery
or captivity of the whole corps of Kentuckians
unoer colonel JJudly had concluded with dis
aster. Under Miller, he led a company of
foity men to the assault of the batteries, which
were carried. And there he left his whole
command, but fourteen men, who alone sur
vived to return with him to the fort. But his
greatest service was that at Sandusky: and it
i . rt . . . . .
was ior tnis mat the Ueneral requited him
with the artfully practised wrong, which from
the noble nature of the injured party, and the
insidious hypocrisy of his cunning adversary,
has up to this hour, been shrouded iu mvste-
ry. It is our purpose now to dissipate the
obscurity by authentic and long suppressed
documents.
It is proper to jrive a brief view of the slcte
cfthing3, out of which the secret history which
we propose to open up, grew, that the partial
ly known and conceded facts may shed their
light on each other.
The reader should look to the map, and
take a comprehensive view (with a knowledge
of the designs on both sides) of the scene of
action of the whole compaign, which the vic
tory obtained by Croghan at Sandusky so
gloriously opened, and which the battle fought
by Col. Johnson on the 1 names as brilliantly
closed.
Armstrong, the Secretary of War, had
over-ruled Han i.-ori's idea of carrying the in
vasion of Canada round the head of the lakes.
His plan was to obtain the command of the
lake by a naval victory and carry our army
into Canada by transports built for the purpose.
The fleet to contend for the mastery with the
English, was prepared near Erie, under Fer
ry. The transports were built by Jesup, at
Cleaveland, and Harrison, whose duty it was
to cover, with his force, these preparations,
took post at Seneca. The lake heads like
a bow into Ohio, from Erie, in Pennsylvania,
to Sandusky bay. Sandusky is at the wes
tern end of the arch Erie, at the eastern ex
tremity Cleaveland is on the arch between
the two. The British force was on the op
posite side from the Sandusky bay. Harrison
and his army, was at a considerable distance
from the bay, up the Sandusky river Croghan
at the post of Lower Sandusky, being about
nine miles nearer the bay. The object of the
British was to destroy the preparations for in
vasion on the lake shores, and open the
whole sweep of its arch in Ohio to the depre
dations of the Indians supported by the Brit
ish fleet and sustained by the land forces as a
rallvinff point in their incursions. To re
lieve himself from Harrison's force, which he
did not doubt would be employed to cover
Cleaveland, Proctor made a feint of besieging
Fort Meigs a second time. This, he supposed,
would withdraw Harrison from Seneca west
ward, to succor Fort Meigs, and leave his de
signs upon the boats and stores at Cleaveland
and the fleet at Erie unobstructed. Harrison
did not march to the relief of Fort Meigs.
Proctor then came down the bay to Sandusky
in the prosecution of his real object. Harrr
son no sooner heard of his approach, than he
ordered Croshan to burn his fort and retreat
and he had all his own provisions and prepar
ations for the Canadacampaign piled for a con
flagration, and a retreat into me liueriur as
snnn as Croehan joined him. Proctor would
thus have obtained, trom the tears ot Harrison
what his feint on Fort Meigs was intended to
pfTfif.t. bv nrovokins his valor, had not Crog-
han's courage disappointed Proctor and saved
TTnt-riann A rmctrATI (T then Secretary, thus
WV- s w7 . -
sums up, in his notices of the war' the con
rluct of Harrison at this Dointoftime:
"Havinc on the 29th, sufficiently assured
himself with regard to the number and equip
ment of Proctor's force, and suspecting that
this formidable array might be directed against
his own entrenched camp -at Seneca, he at
once determined to collect and destroy his
surplus stores, abandon his present position
and make good a retreat to Upper Sandusky
reauug 10 lUe rate mat might await them,
the settlements that were on the Southern
shores of the lake; the boats built and stores
collected at Cleaveland: and Perry's fleet,
then fitting out and nearly ready for service,
at Presque Isle. But though willing and
prepared to make these sacrifices, he could
not but perceive that a mere presumption of
uaugci 10 ins own camp, would not jastifv the
abandonment of Croghan's detachment, with
out some effort on his part to extend to it the
eventual security he sought for himself. On
this point, however, the General's sense of
duty was soon satisfied,- forgetting alike the
admonition contained in his first order to
Croghan, "not to hazard a retreat in the face
of an Indian investment," and the fact now
perfectly known to himself that such invest
ment did exist, he despatched to that officer
a second order, for "an immediate retreat" at
all hazards; indicating the route by which he
was to make it, but taking no step by which
he was to cover, or otherwise sustain the
movement. And, as if the task thus imposed
was not in itself sufficiently perilous, he far
ther prescribed, that the garrison, instead of
employing all proper means to mask the oper
ation, should bezin "bu setting fire to their
stores and barracks," and thus virtually
announce their intention to the surrounding
enemy.
"Fortunately, the great disposer of the events
of this world, not unfreauentlv converts evil
into good, and folly into wisdom. On the
present occasion, we have seen, that bv the
first order given to Crojjhan he was assigned
to the defence of a post which, in the Gene-
rai s opinion, 'could not be saved,1 and at the
same time forbidden to retreat, in the face of
an Iudian investment, and that by a second.
he was ordered to abandon this untenable
post, and make good a retreat of nine miles
rough a continuous forest Jilltd with
savages, tctthout aid or sunnort nf ami
kind" 11 "
"The circumstances connected with Crosr-
han's refusal to obey the order to burn and
retreat, are told for the first time truly in his
letter, which we now publish. The result is
forcibly told by the Secretary, Armstrong, in
the following passage:
"In making this selection, the young and
gallant Croghan did not hesitate; and to the
demand of a surrender, enforced bv the usual
menace of indiscriminate slaughter in case of
refusal, he answered substantially that the
defence of his post was a point of honnr
which could only be satisfied by an actual ex
periment of the relative force and fortune of
3 antagonist and himself.
"While this negotiation was in progress,
Proctor was employed in landing his artillery
and giving it a position in aid of his gun
boats, from which on the delivery of Croghan's
answer, a heavy fire was opened and contin
ued on the fort, with little if any intermission
during the night. At day-break a second
battery of three six pounders was established
within two hundred and fifty yards ot the
pickets; and about four o'clock P. M. was
found that the whole fire of the British cannon,
was concentrated on the northwest corner of
the fort a circumstance sufficiently indica
ting the point and species of attack meditated
upon it. Major Croghau, accordingly has
tened to employ such means as he possessed
to strengthen the menaced angle, and had
barely executed his purpose, when the enemy
(covering himself with smoke,) was seen rap
idly advancing and but a few paces distant
from the pickets. A general and well-directed
fire of musketry from the garrison, which
immediately followed this discovery, had the
effect of checking his progress and consider
ably disturbing his order; but the latter being
speedily restored, the movement was resumed,
and the ditch reached and occupied by the
head of the column. It was at this critical
moment that Croghan's single piece of artil
lery, charged with grape-shot, and so placed
as to enfilade the assailants, openea its nre,
and with such effect, that in a few minutes
the combat was virtually ended and the battle
won. Most of the enemy who entered the
ditch were killed or wounded, and such ot
them as were less advanced and able to fly,
sought safety in the neighbouring woods
carrying with them no disposition to renew
the attack, and strongly impressing their In-
i .1 I T
dian allies with their own pauic. jtiucioi
now saw, that all attempts to rally the fugitives
were hopeless, and that to avoid a greater ca
lamity, his most prudent course would be, to
re-embark what could be collected of his force,
red and white, and return immediately to Maiden."
We now come to the unpublished history
connected with this event. It will explain
why the results of this victory were carefully
keot out of view at the tirae why Croghan
consented to have his motives for disobeying
his orders misrepresented, and Harrison's
conduct in giving them vindication and
why Harrison so perseveringly falsified the
truth of history in the accounts given by him
of this particular transaction, in the two works
prepared under his own eye; the first puDiisu
ed bv McAfecthe second bv Dawson.
In bringing forward Colonel Croghan's
letters uDon this subiect. it is Drooer to state
L - r-
that they were given to us by a gentleman ot
high standing in Ohio, who, without any com-
mumcatioji with Colonel Croghan upon ine
VOJL. 2. JTO. 27. Whole Number 80
A
Seneca
state,
fear that Harrison would quit his camp at
and pounce upon him in his then crippled
Tt was worthv of notice, that of these two
commanders, (always the terror of each other,) one
was now actually flying from his supposed pursuer,
while the other waited only the arrival of Croghan
-. . t, Hytrin a mmn rnnfla"ration ana JllHot
31 Odl'' li ' to 1 - e
to Fort Meigs-
subject, submitted them to us for the press.
The facts that these letters were called for bv
a committee of gentlemen at Wheeling, the
friends of Harrison that Colonel Croghan
expressed his willingness to give them to the
public by referring the committee to General
Harrison for the correspondence that this
committee, after having had time to com
municate with General Harrison, published a
letter as Croghan's, which the late correspon
dence between Harrison and Croghan shows
was not his, but one which his self-sacrificing
patriotism permitted Harrison to shape, to
suit the exigencies of the time at which it was
published that Harrison's aid Col. Todd,
now conducting a press notoriously set up
as the immediate organ of Harrison, declared,
in reference to the call by the committee for
the correspondence in regard to the contested
question of the defence of Fort Stephenson,
that there was no "such contested question"
"that history and Col. Croghan's own let
ter at the day, have placed the subject beyond
the necessity of further elucidation" ail these
facts, connected with the consideration that
if what is said in behalf of Harrison in regard
to the call of his own friends for the corres
pondence, be true, the correspondence itself
must be false, render it proper, in justice to
the parties and to the public, that the issue
made by Colonel Todd's declaration should
be tested. We do not publish what purports
to be the replies of Harrison, in the copies
which we have in our hands, because the
history referred to by Col. Todd, as true, is
condemned, in the letters purporting to be
Harrison's, as erroneous. Harrison must
therefore deny the authenticity of these letters,
or the authority of his friend, Col. Todd, to
make the statement on his behalf.
We shall await, then, some intimation on
the part of General Harrison or his friends,
touching this subject some recognition of
the letters imputed to him, coupled with an
expression of a willingness that they may
meet "the public eye." In that contingency
we shall with alacrity present (hem in the
columns of (he Globe, in their proper connec
tion. From the contents of Col. Croghan's let
ters, it will be perceived that not a fact stated
by htm is controverted. It was alone upon
the admission of the truth of his statements
that the mode of correcting the original
misrepresentations was referred to the deci
sion of mutual friends.
COLONEL CROGHAN'S LETTERS
TO GENERAL HARRISON.
Red Hook, 1st July, 1818.
Sir: Could I calculate on seeing you with
in any reasonable time, this letter would not
be written; but as there is no prospect of this,
I deem it, therefore, most proper in this way
to state to you with candor, that reports, or
rather statements, have been made to me of
such a nature, and from sources so direct and
apparently so authentic, as to cause me to
hesitate in the language I should bear towards
you; and which will, unless positively denied
by you, call from me such contradiction as
would be extremely unpleasant to me, and,
perhaps, mortifying to you.
It is stated that you revised ana correcteo
the work entitled "War in the Vest," (ot
which McAfee is the ostensible author,) pre
paratory to its going to press, thus giing
your sanction and authority to the publication
ot a statement in relation to me oeieucc ui
Lower Sandusky, most positively incorrect,
and which you at the time knew to be in di
rect contradiction ot the language which you
held in the Camp of Seneca during the bom
bardment of Sandusky by tne enemy. "ten.
Harrison," says the author, "discovering from
the fire of the enemy that he had nothing but
lioht artillery, which could make no impres
sion on the works, felt no apprehension for
the safety of the garrison, well knowing that
a breach could not be effected, and that with
out forming a breach, every attempt at esca
lade could be successlully repelled oy tne gar
rison," or words to this amount a statement
as void of truth as possible, as you very well
know, recollecting as you must your uneasi
ness, during the whole continuance of the
cannonade, for the safety of the garrison, and
which more than once wrung trom you tins
strong language of censure ot my conduct.
"I wash my hands ot it tne uiooa do on nis
own head" language which you had no right
to use, and which would have damned my
reputation as an officer had i fallen on mat
occasion.
I am informed that very lately, at a dinner
in Philadelphia, when the subject ofthede
fnre of Sandusky was brought up, you ex
pressed yourself in substance thus: The
officers and soldiers of that garrison are not
so deserving of distinction for its defence as
it is generally thought: to the blindness and
f6lly of the enemy, more than to any extraor
dinary exertions or skill of theirs, is to be
ascribed his defeat and their safety; it is true
they did very well, but not better than any
other like number of troops trom my army
would have done, &c, thus continuing on in
such an exposition of the affair, as made me,
cvs mv informant and others at the table,
astonishment that the merits of the
Hofence of the Sandusky had been so far over
rated, and that the commanding officer had
received for such service such applause.
Did such conversation ever take place: or
have vou ever expressed yourself in such
manner of the defence of Sandusky, as to
induce the belief in any one that its garrison
received warmer plaudits than it was deserv
jr nf? And in asking this, may I at the
same time require of you an equally candid
denial or admission of the statement of your
having revised the work of which McAfee is
the ostensible author? If it is made to ap
pear from your answer that my informants
have reported falsely, they shall know it to
their confusion and cost: but if on the other
hand there is an affirmation on your part of
the truth of their statement, I will immediately
take it upon myself to correct the false im
pression you may have created. I will be in
New York until the 1st of October next, to
which place I beg that your answer mav be
directed.
I have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
G. CROGHAN.
To Gen. W. H. Harrison,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
New York, Aug. 13, 1818.
Dear Sir: The language of mv letter.
although warm, was but the expression of my
feelings at the time; for I had then scarce a
doubt of your hostility towards me, by such
an extraordinary chain of co-incident circum
stances were the reports in proof thereof
brought before me. With every desire to ad
dress you as from the long friendship that has
existed between us you had a right to expect,
I was unable to express myself as I wished,
for at each attempt at more dispassionate man
ner, I became yet more warm at the idea of
having so mistaken your character. Nor
will you be surprised at this, when informed
of the manner in which it was produced. In
the first place, I was never satisfied with your
report of the affair of Sandusky. You eulogi
zed individual gallantry alone, without any at
tempt at placing the facts before the Govern
ment in the important light they merited
thus doing an injury to myself and to others
concerned. However, this neglect I found an
excuse for at the time; the exasperated state
of public feeling, unjustly directed against
yourselfj rendering it more proper, for a time
at least, such facts should be withheld as
would tend the further to increase the reputa
tion of the affair. Secondly. When I heard
for more than two years, officers declare that
you were inimical to me, (at the same time
giving instances in proof,) a book appeared
in Kentucky, highly corroborative of these
declarations, for in wis book (on which it is
said you had passed your approbation whilst
yet in manuscript) a statement is given of the
anair of Sandusky, calculated most complete
ly to lessen its reputation in the opinion of
the public. Lastly. When in a degree exas
perated at the false coloring given to the af
fair of Sandusky in the book above referred to,
while revolving in my mind a conjecture of
the real state of your feelings towards me, I
accidentally met with a stranger who recited
to me a conversation he had recently held
with you, that places the fact of your hostility
beyond a question. The conversation here
alluded to was expressed at length in my last
letter, and to it 1 might have added another
fact which had its place in the chain of con
nection that you presented to this stranger
McAfee's History; and I may say vouched
for its correctness, as it was given to him af
ter he had avowed his intention of writing an ;
account of the war. I might here relate many
other facts of like importance in this chain of
singular coincidents; but I deem it will readi
ly appear from those I have already stated,
that I was slow to believe you capable of im-
proper teelmg, and that the warmtn ot wnicn
you complain was the consequence of unwill
ingness on my part to trouble you witn a
recital of the various reports I had heard, un
til at last they assumed so positive a charac-
r.L l
ter as to impress me wun amiusi au enure
conviction of their truth.
1 may offer these particulars in excuse for
the tone and language of my letter; but they
do not cause me the less to regret having be
trayed such warmth. You had a right to ex
pect other tieatmeut; and I do not hesitate to
say that I have wronged your friendship.
xour letter Dears wun it an tne sausiacuon
that you could give, or that I can ask. You
have denied, in emphatic terms, the truth of
the statements that have been made to me,
and of course stand acquitted of every charge
of improper feelings towards me. The sub
ject, 1 hope, may stand at rest forever, at least
so iar as relates to yourseit. onouiu a second
edition, of McAfee's book be published, I
will offer to the publisher an impartial detail
of facts in relation to the affair of Sandusky,
as a duty which I owe to those brave men
who are miured in the statement now betore
the world: but, in whatever I may say, no per
sonal allusions shall be made to yourself, if
they can be avoided. Although I no longer
harbor a thought of your having ever wilfully
injured us, of your having at any time stated
any thing with a view to detract from the merits
of the defence of Sandusky, I am very far, at
the same time, from placing, as I used to do,
the strongest reliance on the activity of your
friendship for me. I once thought you
anxious to seek an occasion to speak jn
praise of my services. I since find my mis
take, and that your neglect of me has gone
so far as to cause you to pass from under your
eyes a work containing an incorrect account
of an affair on wnicn my reputation as a sol
dier greatly depended, when it was fully in
your power to have given it the necessary
corrections. Feeling, as I do, that I have
striven a great deal in your behalf, and aware
that you were conscious of my having at one
time rendered you a very signal service, 1 am
surprised, perhaps mortified, that you should
have neglected the very favorable opportunity
that was offered to you of acknowledging the
obligation by generously publishing to the
woild a full account of every transaction in
relation to the defence of Sandusky. Such a
course would not have leA me among the
number of those who have given proof of
more personal courage, but would hare rank
ed toe on the roll of those who have rendered
their country signal services, while it would
have exalted you as one superior to all Selfish
considerations, more anxious to render jus
tice to others than to claim it for yourself. J
have been educated in the belief that candor
was a virtue; I therefore address you in its
utmost sincerity. I do not wish to hurt your
feelings, but to show you what my own are.
I harbor not against you the most remote re
sentment I am as willing now as I have
ever been to speak in your favor, nor will I
ever neglect an opportunity of doing justicd
to your military worth and services.
1 am, very respectfully, yours,
G. CROGHAN.
Gen. Harrison, Cincinnati.
New Orleans, May 24, 1825
Sir : I unwillingly renew our correspon
dence, which I had thought finally closed with
my letter on the 13th August, 1818, and that
I do so will be received by you as an evidence
that my feelings towards yon are at least not
hostile. You will call to mind the particulars
of our recent conversation at Washington
City, and cannot therefore be surprised at my
entering, without circumlocution, upon the
subject which then occupied us. Strict jus
tice has never yet been done to the brave men
who served with me at Lower Sandusky, and
I require it for them at your hands. It would
be needless for me to point out in what par- .
ticulars they have suffered ; to you, at least,
it should be enough to be referred to McAfee's
History of the War in the West, and your
own biography, recently published in Cincin
nati. What is said in either of these books
calculated to place the transactions at Lower
Sandusky in a higher point of view before the
world than is claimed for the most insignifi
cant affairs of that day t Your answer must
be that of every other reader nothing. I ask
no more for myself, General Harrison, than
I have a right to claim for every soldier who
served under me. But might I not ask for
more at your hand ! If you have one spark
of grateful recollection, you will answer, yea
more, much more. Did I not literally sacri
fice myself to save you ? Did I not, ai a
moment when the excitement against you
throughout the whole State of Ohio, amount
ing to general clamor, when there was almost
mutiny in your very camp at Seneca, do
every thing thai you and yuui fiicsuarcauir4
of me as necessary to reinstate you in the
good opinion of the people and of the army t
The success of our army required that you,
the general-in-chief, should have the confi
dence of all ; and to insure that, I signed ad
dresses, without reading them, because I was
told that it was necessary ; wrote letters ap
proving throughout, your conduct, and subject
to your corrections, without asking what they
might be, because I was assured by members
of your family that you yourself believed that
on my expressions in relation to you much
depended. But of what I did for you enough
of what you have done for me there is nothing
to be told. You have personally pledged
yourself to correct any false impressions that
may have been created by the publication of
the two works above mentioned ; in a word,
to speak of all things in relation to the trans
actions in Sandusky as they deserve.
We are told in McAfee's History, "Gener
al Harrison, discovering from the fire of the
enemy that he had nothing but light artillery,
which could make no impression upon the
work, felt not a moment alarmed for the safety
of the garrison, well knowing that a breach
could not be effected, and that without effect
ing a breach, every, attempt at escalade could
be successfully repelled." General Harrison,
is this the fact? Did you not, during the
whole of the bombardment of thirty-six hours,
evince more emotion than could have been
induced by a belief that the garrison was not
endangered ? Did you not, in the extremity
of your apprehensions, more than once cry
out, "The blood be on his own head I wash
my hands of it V And was there one man
of all your camp at Seneca (the gallant Wood
excepted) who believed that, without the most
desperate resistance, the garrison could pre
vail against the attacks of the enemy I An
swer these queries, and fairly. I demand it
of you as a right. If the statement in Mc
Afee's book be correct, then where is the
merit of the defence of Saudusky ! State
candidly the facts without eulogium on any
of us ; for each one who served there would
be judged by his works. Tell to the world,
that when you fell back on Seneca, leaving as
a garrison for Sandusky, but 150 men, the
works of the place were measurably defence
less that the pickets which connected the
block houses were so loosely planted, that the
efforts of a single man could pull many of them
Upthat there was no ditch about the work,
nor any outward defence to oppose to an as
sailing force that but few entrenching tools
were left behind, and those unwillingly and
to all this, that there was spared to us scarce
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without a single prepared cartridge or one
ounce of powder for the only piece of artillery
in the place. Then state the appearance of
the defences, on your coming down immedi
ately after the defeat and flight of the enemy.
The brave men who toiled there during tea
days and nights to put themselves in & posture
of defence, are as much entitled to credit for
it, as they are deserving of praise for their
gallantry after the coming of the enemy.
Having enlarged on these points as far as
may be due to the truth, I would then have
you speak of every other circumstance in re-