Accordingly he shifted his army to a place some eighty miles north of Cincinnati, where he encamped for the winter, building a place of strength which he named Greeneville in honor of his old comrade in arms, General Greene.
He sent forward a strong detachment of his troops to the site of St.
Clair's defeat, where they built a post which was named Fort Recovery.
The discipline of the army steadily improved, though now and then a soldier deserted, usually fleeing to Kentucky, but in one or two cases striking through the woods to Detroit.

The bands of auxiliary militia that served now and then for short periods with the regulars, were of course much less well trained and less dependable.
Indians Attack the Convoys.
The Indians were always lurking about the forts, and threatening the convoys of provisions and munitions as they marched slowly from one to the other.

Any party that left a fort was in imminent danger.

On one occasion the commander of Fort Jefferson and his orderly were killed and scalped but three hundred yards from the fort.

A previous commander of this fort while hunting in this neighborhood had been attacked in similar fashion, and though he escaped, his son and a soldier were slain.