[The Conquest of the Old Southwest by Archibald Henderson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Conquest of the Old Southwest CHAPTER VI 5/15
On my side I had 2 Men wounded one of whom I am afraid will die as he is scalped, the other is in way of Recovery, and one boy killed near the fort whom they durst not advance to scalp.
I expected they would have paid me another visit last night, as they attack all Fortifications by Night, but find they did not like their Reception." Alarmed by Waddell's "offensive-defensive," the Indians abandoned the siege.
Robert Campbell, Waddell's ranger, who was scalped in this engagement, subsequently recovered from his wounds and was recompensed by the colony with the sum of twenty pounds. In addition to the frontier militia, four independent companies were now placed under Waddell's command.
Companies of volunteers scoured the woods in search of the lurking Indian foe.
These rangers, who were clad in hunting-shirts and buckskin leggings, and who employed Indian tactics in fighting, were captained by such hardy leaders as the veteran Morgan Bryan, the intrepid Griffith Ruthe ford, the German partisan, Martin Phifer (Pfeiffer), and Anthony Hampton, the father of General Wade Hampton.
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