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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IV
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The three-pounder was carried along on a pack-horse.

The march was hard, for it rained so incessantly that it was difficult to keep the rifles dry.

Every night they encamped in a hollow square, with the baggage and horses in the middle.
Chillicothe, when reached, was found to be deserted.

It was burned, and the army pushed on to Piqua, a town a few miles distant, on the banks of the Little Miami, [Footnote: The Indians so frequently shifted their abode that it is hardly possible to identify the exact location of the successive towns called Piqua or Pickaway.] reaching it about ten in the morning of the 8th of August.

[Footnote: "Papers relating to G.R.
Clark." In the Durrett MSS.


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