His command did not get in touch with the enemy.

He had his hands full maintaining a decent regard for discipline among the raw frontiersmen of his company.
He saved the life of an innocent old Indian, with a passport from General Cass, who had fallen into their hands and whom, in their excitement and lust for action, they desired to hang.

This was the only incident of his term of service which gave him the least satisfaction.
Early in the campaign Harry had been sent with a message to headquarters, where he won the regard of Colonel Taylor and was ordered to the front with a company of scouts.

No member of the command had been so daring.
He had the recklessness of youth and its wayward indifferences to peril.
William Boone, a son of Daniel, used to speak of "the luck of that daredevil farmer boy." One day in passing mounted through a thick woods on the river, near the enemy, he suddenly discovered Indians all around him.

They sprang out of the bushes ahead and one of them opened fire.