But Captain Ogle, at that time in charge of the garrison, had led a company out in search of the Indians.
Nearly all of his men were killed, several only making their way to the fort.
On the day following Major McColloch's arrival at Fort Henry, the settlers had been called in from their spring plowing and other labors, and were now busily engaged in moving their stock and the things they wished to save from the destructive torch of the redskin.

The women had their hands full with the children, the cleaning of rifles and moulding of bullets, and the thousand and one things the sterner tasks of their husbands had left them.

Major McColloch, Jonathan and Silas Zane, early in the day, had taken different directions along the river to keep a sharp lookout for signs of the enemy.

Colonel Zane intended to stay in his oven house and defend it, so he had not moved anything to the fort excepting his horses and cattle.

Old Sam, the negro, was hauling loads of hay inside the stockade.