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Expedition Against Sandusky Review"An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky under Col. William Crawford in 1782" by C.W. Butterfield, first published a century later in 1873 and now reprinted in 2009. The main events of this campaign: the two battles and the torture and murder of Col. Crawford, happened within just a very few miles of where I grew up. Butterfield was a resident of the Bucyrus area and I recall that name as still being prominent in the area of my hometown, Galion, dating from the early 1800s.
Much of the contemporary description of the Sandusky expedition and preceding events has been shown to be erroneous, even slanderous, in the extreme. Unfortunately some of it has retained some currency even to this date - helped along its' dishonest journey by the fervor of the A.I.M. movement of the 1970s/80s.
Whereas the early accounts offer little, if any, credible substantiation; this account by Butterworth offers a large amount of research, especially considering that the events took place well out on the frontier during the Revolution "back East". This account even matches the topography of the area closely whereas much of the contemporary discussion of it is woefully off-base on that matter.
The claimed "flashpoint" that prompted the expedition was the Gnadenhutten Massacre, an event that happened when the British held New York (and its' newspapers) and the British got no end of anti-American mileage out of the hearsay reports and fabrications about the episode. Unfortunately, much of that propaganda achieved the status of credible report during those times. That the tragedy at Gnadenhutten was used as a political club by both the British and even more so by the Moravian missionaries is fact. But its' real relation to the Sandusky expedition is quite open to conjecture and debate.
Butterfield, though clearly trying to be accurate, wrote in the style of his times (1873).
The large-scale removal of Indians east of the Mississippi was but 35 yrs. passed and the country was still struggling (not too successfully) with the Plains tribes. Custer would perish in three years. Much to his credit he tries to let the people involved tell the tale but he still uses references that, today, would draw criticism for lack of political correctness.
And there is the very typical (and often amusing) Nineteenth Century habit of sweeping generalization and use of superlatives. "ALL the men "were of the UTMOST Courage". ALL the woods were verdant and Gloomy." ALL the "savages" were issuing "the MOST FRIGHTFUL of war-whoops". "Not A SINGLE man was unsteady", the "WHOLE Frontier was in UPROAR", etc. Among the best is that "the battle(s) RAGED for two days but then we find out twenty soldiers were killed and another twenty wounded, four of them seriously.
It's a good account, albeit a bit grisly in spots, especially regarding the treatment the Indians gave Col. Crawford upon his capture and subsequent merciless execution. It is also valuable for its' own unique presentation of frontier life in the Ohio territory. It doesn't really hide the clear bias of the whites of the era any more than it candycoats the behavior of the Indians. It's a good read and moves along fairly quickly.Expedition Against Sandusky Overview

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