[Footnote A:  One of the aids of general Harrison, and inspector-general of the United States army, during the late war.]

[Footnote B:  Early on the 7th, general Harrison left the army under the command of governor Shelby, and returned to Detroit.  His report of the battle, was dated on the 9th.  The army did not reach Sandwich, opposite Detroit, until the 10th.]

[Footnote C:  See Louisville Journal.]

In taking leave of this branch of our subject, it may be remarked, that the strong terms of approbation in which general Harrison, in his official account of the battle of the Thames, speaks of the bravery and bearing of colonel Johnson in the conflict, should have shielded him from the suspicion that any unkind feeling towards that officer was allowed to sway his judgment in the preparation of his report.

We now proceed to give some testimony in favor of other individuals, whose friends have claimed for them the credit of having slain Tecumseh.  It has been already stated, that before our army left the field of battle, it was reported and believed by many of the troops, that colonel Whitley, of Johnson’s corps of mounted men, had killed the Indian commander in the action of the Thames.  The only testimony, in confirmation of this report, which has fallen under our observation, is contained in the two following communications.  The first is a letter from Mr. Abraham Scribner, now of Greenville, Ohio, under date of September 8th, 1840.  The writer says—­“I had never seen Tecumseh, until the body was shown to me on the battle ground on the river Thames:  by whose hand he fell must always be a matter of uncertainty.  My own opinion was, the day after the battle, and is yet, that Tecumseh fell by a ball from the rifle of colonel Whitley, an old Indian fighter:  two balls passed through colonel Whitley’s head, at the moment that Tecumseh fell; he (colonel Whitley,) was seen to take aim at the Indian said to be Tecumseh, and his rifle was found empty.”

The second is from colonel Ambrose Dudley, of Cincinnati, under date of 24th February, 1841, and is in the following words: 

“The morning after the battle of the Thames, in company with several other persons, I walked over the ground, to see the bodies of those who had been slain in the engagement.  After passing from the river a considerable distance, and the latter part of the way along what was termed a swamp, viewing the slain of the British army, we came to a place where some half a dozen persons were standing, and three dead Indians were lying close together.  One of the spectators remarked, that he had witnessed that part of the engagement which led to the death of these three Indians and two of our troops, whose bodies had been removed the evening before for burial.  He proceeded to point out the position of the slain as they lay upon the ground, with that of our men.  He said old colonel Whitley rode up to the body of a tree, which lay before him, and behind which lay