the hostile Indians were in great force on the route to that place.  On the next day, general Thomas Worthington, of Chillicothe, who was then on the frontier as Indian commissioner, seeing the great importance of communicating with the garrison, determined to unite with Oliver in the attempt to reach it.  These two enterprising individuals induced sixty-eight of the Ohio troops and sixteen Shawanoe Indians, among whom was Logan, to accompany them.  They marched eighteen miles that day, and camped for the night at Shane’s crossing.

Next morning they again moved forward, but in the course of the day, some thirty-six of their party abandoned the hazardous enterprise, and returned to the main army.  The remainder pursued their route, and encamped that evening within twenty-four miles of fort Wayne.  As the party was not strong enough in its present condition to encounter the besieging enemy, general Worthington was very reluctantly induced to remain at this point, while Oliver, with Logan, captain Johnny and Brighthorn, should make an effort to reach the fort.  Being well armed and mounted, they started at daybreak next morning upon this daring adventure.  Proceeding with great caution, they came within five miles of the fort, before they observed any fresh Indian signs.  At this point the keen eye of Logan discovered the cunning strategy of the enemy:  for the purpose of concealing their bodies, they had dug holes on either side of the road, alternately, at such distances as to secure them from their own fire:  these were intended for night watching, in order to cut off all communication with the fort.  Here the party deemed it advisable to leave the main road, and strike across the country to the Maumee river, which was reached in safety at a point one and a half miles below the fort.  Having tied their horses in a thicket, the party proceeded cautiously on foot, to ascertain whether our troops or the Indians were in possession of the fort.  Having satisfied themselves on this point, they returned, remounted their horses, and taking the main road, moved rapidly to the fort.  Upon reaching the gate of the esplanade, they found it locked, and were thus compelled to pass down the river bank, and then ascend it at the northern gate.  They were favored in doing so by the withdrawal of the hostile Indians from this point, in carrying out a plan, then on the point of consummation, for taking the fort by an ingenious stratagem.  For several days previous to this time, the hostile chiefs under a flag of truce, had been holding intercourse with the garrison; and had, it is supposed, discovered the unsoldier-like condition of the commander.  They had accordingly arranged their warriors in a semicircle, on the west and south sides of the fort, and at no great distance from it.  Five of the chiefs, under pretence of treating with the officers of the garrison, were to pass into the fort, and when in council were to assassinate the subaltern officers