His successful opponent, Colonel William Crawford, was a fairly good officer, a just and upright man, but with no special fitness for such a task as that he had undertaken.

Nor were the troops he led of very good stuff [Footnote: A minute and exhaustive account of Crawford's campaign is given by Mr.C.W.Butterfield in his "Expedition against Sandusky." (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1873).

Mr.Butterfield shows conclusively that the accepted accounts are wholly inaccurate, being derived from the reports of the Moravian missionaries, whose untruthfulness (especially Heckewelder's) is clearly demonstrated.

He shows the apocryphal nature of some of the pretended narratives of the expedition, such as two in "The American Pioneer," etc.

He also shows how inaccurate McClung's "sketches" are--for McClung was like a host of other early western annalists, preserving some valuable facts in a good deal of rubbish, and having very little appreciation indeed of the necessity of so much as approximate accuracy.