Pierre Berton's War of 1812

Authors: Pierre Berton

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“Here they pause at the site of their state’s most humiliating defeat to find the bones of their countrymen still unburied and strewn for three miles over the golden wheatfields and among the apple orchards.The grisly spectacle rekindles the volunteers’ thirst for revenge. Here, on a bitterly cold day the previous January, Procter’s Indians struck down the flower of Kentucky, massacring them without quarter, butchering the wounded, burning some alive after putting the torch to buildings, holding... others for ransom. Remember the Raisin! is the only recruiting cry needed in the old frontier commonwealth. Kentucky now has more men under arms than any state in the Union.The regiment halts to bury the dead. Captain Robert McAfee writes in his diary that “the bones … cry aloud for revenge.… The chimneys of the houses where the Indians burnt our wounded prisoners … yet lie open to the call of vindictive Justice.…” The scene is rendered more macabre that night by a tremendous lightning storm “as if the Prince of the Power of the air … was invited at our approach to scenes of Bloodshed.…”Its task completed, the regiment rides on toward Detroit, where William Henry Harrison awaits them.MoreLess Read More Read Less