was kept up all the rest of the day, and shells were thrown until 11 o’clock at night.  Very little damage, however, was done in the camp; one or two were killed, and three or four wounded; among the latter was major Amos Stoddard, of the first regiment of artillery, a survivor of the revolution, and an officer of much merit.  He was wounded slightly with a piece of shell, and about ten days afterwards died with the lock-jaw.

“The fire of the enemy was returned from the fort with one eighteen pounder with some effect, though but sparingly, for the stock of eighteen pound shot was but small, there being but three hundred and sixty of that size in the fort when the siege commenced; and about the same number for the twelve pounders."[A]

[Footnote A:  M’Affee.]

Throughout the whole of the second day the firing was continued with great spirit, but without doing much damage on either side.  General Harrison, in anticipation of a transfer of the enemy’s guns to the other side of the river, and the establishment of batteries to play upon the centre or flanks of the camp, had directed the construction of works calculated to resist such an attack; and they were in a state of considerable forwardness on the morning of the third, when, from the bushes on the left of the fort, three field pieces and a howitzer were suddenly opened upon the camp by the enemy.  The fire was returned with such effect, that general Proctor was soon compelled to change his position.  His batteries were again opened on the camp from another point, but without doing much injury.  On the fourth, the fire of the enemy was renewed, but with less energy than on the previous days, the result, it is supposed, of a belief that their efforts to reduce the fort would fail.  General Harrison was waiting the arrival of general Clay with his reinforcements.  Late in the night of the fourth, captain Oliver, accompanied by majors David Trimble and ——­ Taylor, with fifteen Ohio militia, having left general Clay above the rapids, started in a boat for the fort, that the commanding general, by knowing the position of the reinforcements, might form his plans for the ensuing day.  The effort to reach the fort under the existing circumstances was extremely dangerous.  Captain Leslie Combs had already attempted it, and failed.  He had been sent by colonel Dudley, upon his arrival at Defiance, to inform general Harrison of the fact.  With five men, the captain approached within a mile of the fort, when he was attacked by the Indians, and compelled to retreat after a gallant resistance, in which nearly all his companions were killed.  When Oliver drew near the fort, the night was extremely dark, and he was only enabled to discover the spot by the spreading branches of a solitary oak tree, standing within the fortification.  The boat was fired upon by the sentinels of the fort, but on their being hailed by captain Oliver, no further alarm was given.  After landing and wading over a ravine