soldiers had affectionately christened him “Mad Anthony.”  But his head was as cool as his heart was stout.  He was taught in a rough school; for the early campaigns in which he took part were waged against the gallant generals and splendid soldiery of the British King.  By experience he had grown to add caution to his dauntless energy.  Once, after the battle of Brandywine, when he had pushed close to the enemy, with his usual fearless self-confidence, he was surprised in a night attack by the equally daring British general Grey, and his brigade was severely punished with the bayonet.  It was a lesson he never forgot; it did not in any way abate his self-reliance or his fiery ardor, but it taught him the necessity of forethought, of thorough preparation, and of ceaseless watchfulness.  A few days later he led the assault at Germantown, driving the Hessians before him with the bayonet.  This was always his favorite weapon; he had the utmost faith in coming to close quarters, and he trained his soldiers to trust the steel.  At Monmouth he turned the fortunes of the day by his stubborn and successful resistance to the repeated bayonet charges of the Guards and Grenadiers.  His greatest stroke was the storming of Stony Point, where in person he led the midnight rush of his troops over the walls of the British fort.  He fought with his usual hardihood against Cornwallis; and at the close of the Revolutionary War he made a successful campaign against the Creeks in Georgia.  During this campaign the Creeks one night tried to surprise his camp, and attacked with resolute ferocity, putting to flight some of the troops; but Wayne rallied them and sword in hand he led them against the savages, who were overthrown and driven from the field.  In one of the charges he cut down an Indian chief; and the dying man, as he fell, killed Wayne’s horse with a pistol shot.

    Wayne Reorganizes the Army

As soon as Wayne reached the Ohio, in June, 1792, he set about reorganizing the army.  He had as a nucleus the remnant of St. Clair’s beaten forces; and to this were speedily added hundreds of recruits enlisted under new legislation by Congress, and shipped to him as fast as the recruiting officers could send them.  The men were of precisely the same general character as those who had failed so dismally under St. Clair, and it was even more difficult to turn them into good soldiers, for the repeated disasters, crowned by the final crushing horror, had unnerved them and made them feel that their task was hopeless, and that they were foredoomed to defeat. [Footnote:  Bradley MSS.  Letters and Journal of Captain Daniel Bradley; see entry of May 7, 1793, etc.] The mortality among the officers had been great, and the new officers, though full of zeal, needed careful training.  Among the men desertions were very common; and on the occasion of a sudden alarm Wayne found that many of his sentries left their posts and fled. [Footnote:  “Major General Anthony