Among the men desertions were very common; and on the occasion of a sudden alarm Wayne found that many of his sentries left their posts and fled.

[Footnote: "Major General Anthony Wayne," by Charles J.Stille, p.

323.] Only rigorous and long continued discipline and exercise under a commander both stern and capable, could turn such men into soldiers fit for the work Wayne had before him.

He saw this at once, and realized that a premature movement meant nothing but another defeat; and he began by careful and patient labor to turn his horde of raw recruits into a compact and efficient army, which he might use with his customary energy and decision.

When he took command of the army--or "Legion," as he preferred to call it--the one stipulation he made was that the campaign should not begin until his ranks were full and his men thoroughly disciplined.
He Makes a Winter Camp on the Ohio.
Towards the end of the summer of '92 he established his camp on the Ohio about twenty-seven miles below Pittsburgh.