But the triumph was so overwhelming, and the reward so great, that the war spirit received a great impetus in all the tribes.

The bands of warriors that marched against the frontier were more numerous, more formidable, and bolder than ever.
In the following January Wilkinson with a hundred and fifty mounted volunteers marched to the battle-field to bury the slain.

The weather was bitterly cold, snow lay deep on the ground, and some of the volunteers were frost bitten.

[Footnote: McBride's "Pioneer Biography," John Reily's narrative.

This expedition, in which not a single hostile Indian was encountered, has been transmuted by Withers and one or two other border historians into a purely fictitious expedition of revenge in which hundreds of Indians were slain on the field of St.Clair's disaster.] Kentucky Volunteers Visit the Battle-field and Bury the Dead.
Four miles from the scene of the battle, where the pursuit had ended, they began to find the bodies on the road, and close alongside, in the woods, whither some of the hunted creatures had turned at the last, to snatch one more moment of life.