mand of the army. General Posey's journal continually emphasizes the human element in the scenes through which he passed, and frequent side-lights from this hitherto unused source will be introduced in this narrative.[1] Posey reached Pittsburg on August 2. "As we passed through the upper part of Virginia," he leaves record of the journey across the mountains, "the people would often say what a pitty, such a likely parcel of young men were Going to be Slaughtered by the indians as Genl St Clair's army was." One of the most striking observations of Pittsburg was the ominous statement, "at least one half of the People of Pittsburg are in mourning for Genl Richard Butler." Throughout the summer the gathering troops remained at Pittsburg while rigid examinations and drilling exercises were begun. On November 28 the army moved down the Ohio to a distance of seven miles above Fort McIntosh at the mouth of Beaver Creek and twenty-two miles below Pittsburg; his place was accordingly named Legionville. Here,
- ↑ Journal of Thomas Posey, Draper MSS., xvi U, vol. 3. Hereafter this will be referred to merely by name.
