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We had evened up this lead, and the battle-line extended from the river and pond to Crooked Creek and half-way down the creek, running from west to east and then southwest. Cornstalk's plan was to coop us up in the Point and drive us into the Kanawha and Ohio. There were times when our whole line gave ground, but only to surge ahead again.
Lost Sister said her husband was eager to take the path, and that it was Cornstalk's plan to cross the Ohio instead of waiting to be attacked in his own country.
On the 10th of October, from dawn until dusk, was here waged in a gloomy forest one of the most bloody and stubborn hand-to-hand battles ever fought between Indians and whites especially notable, too, because for the first time the rivals were about equal in number. Cornstalk's followers had had enough, however, and withdrew before daylight, leaving the field to the Americans.
It was stubborn traveling, but our riflemen were not to be denied. From along the line would come cries of: "Remember Tygart's Valley!" "Remember Carr's Creek!" "Remember the Clendennins!" And always Cornstalk's voice answered: "Be strong! Be brave! Fight hard!"
The new cabin, "home of the white man," was built on the Sciota River of central Ohio, among the Shawnees of Chief Cornstalk's tribe. He and Chief Cornstalk were close friends. They both stood out for peace. But Cornstalk had been a war chief also, during the Pontiac up-rising. He and his warriors had obeyed the Bloody Belt. His name, Cornstalk, meant that he was the support of the Shawnee nation.
Lost Sister promptly took her in hand and led her some distance in advance of me. That was the day the band split up, the bulk of the warriors leaving to go to their different villages. Half a dozen remained to press on to Cornstalk's Town. Ward was among those who left us and he was unwilling to go. His departure was a great relief to me.
I nodded, and he seated himself on a three-legged stool and whetted a long knife against one of the fireplace stones, and mumbled: "Don't make no differ about me, but for the sake o' these younkers here such men as love killin' Injuns oughter keep clear o' the settlements an' do their stent on t'other side the Ohio. Old Cornstalk's powerful keen to git them fellers.
He said that he wished to die on the battlefield, as his father had done, for an Indian could hope for no better end. He told what a good fight the Indians had made and how brave their leader had been. "All over the field," he said, "you could hear Cornstalk shout to his men 'Be strong! Be brave! The warriors had more fear of Cornstalk's hatchet than of the Long Knives' guns.
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