All were eager for battle and vengeance, and were excited and elated by the repulse that had just been inflicted on the savages; and they feared to wait for Logan lest the foe should escape.

Next morning they rode out in pursuit, one hundred and eighty-two strong, all on horseback, and all carrying long rifles.

There was but one sword among them, which Todd had borrowed from Boon--a rough weapon, with short steel blade and buckhorn hilt.

As with most frontier levies, the officers were in large proportion; for, owing to the system of armed settlement and half-military organization, each wooden fort, each little group of hunters or hard-fighting backwoods farmers, was forced to have its own captain, lieutenant, ensign, and sergeant.
[Footnote: For the American side of the battle of Blue Licks I take the contemporary reports of Boon, Levi Todd, and Logan, Va.

State Papers, Vol.III., pp.