After completing his work of destruction Wayne marched his army back to Fort Defiance.  Here he was obliged to halt for over a fortnight while he sent back to Fort Recovery for provisions.  He employed the time in work on the fort, which he strengthened so that it would stand an attack by a regular army.  The mounted volunteers were turned to account in a new manner, being employed not only to escort the pack-animals but themselves to transport the flour on their horses.  There was much sickness among the soldiers, especially from fever and ague, and but for the corn and vegetables they obtained from the Indian towns which were scattered thickly along the Maumee they would have suffered from hunger.  They were especially disturbed because all the whiskey was used up. [Footnote:  Daily Journal of Wayne’s Campaign, “American Pioneer,” I., 351]

On September 14th the legion started westward towards the Miami Towns at the junction of the St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s rivers, the scene of Harmar’s disaster.  In four days the towns were reached, the Indians being too cowed to offer resistance.  Here the army spent six weeks, burned the towns and destroyed the fields and stores of the hostile tribes, and built a fort which was christened Fort Wayne.  British deserters came in from time to time; some of the Canadian traders made overtures to the army and agreed to furnish provisions at a moderate price; and of the savages only straggling parties were seen.  The mounted volunteers grew mutinous, but were kept in order by their commander Scott, a rough, capable backwoods soldier.  Their term of service at length expired and they were sent home; and the regulars of the Legion, leaving a garrison at Fort Wayne, marched back to Greeneville, and reached it on November 2d, just three months and six days after they started from it on their memorable and successful expedition.  Wayne had shown himself the best general ever sent to war with the Northwestern Indians; and his victorious campaign was the most noteworthy ever carried on against them, for it brought about the first lasting peace on the border, and put an end to the bloody turmoil of forty years’ fighting.  It was one of the most striking and weighty feats in the winning of the West.

    Winter Quarters at Greeneville.

The army went into winter quarters at Greeneville.  There was sickness among the troops, and there were occasional desertions; the discipline was severe, and the work so hard and dangerous that the men generally refused to re-enlist. [Footnote:  Draper MSS., William Clark to Jonathan Clark, November 23, 1794.] The officers were uneasy lest there should be need of a further campaign.  But their fears were groundless.  Before winter set in heralds arrived from the hostile tribes to say that they wished peace.

    The Indians Utterly Downcast.