There was one duty that fell now to Wayne that was not congenial. Posey was one of the detachment which pushed forward in the December snow to St. Clair's slaughter-ground and erected there the most advanced of the chain of forts between the Ohio and Maumee. As the company neared the spot, Captain Edward Butler touched Posey on the shoulder and said: "When you reach the ground go to a large spreading oak which you cannot fail to see. Under that oak my brother's marquee was pitched and there you will find his bones which you can identify by a fracture of one thigh bone."
"We went to the place," writes Posey, "and found part of his [General Richard Butler's] bones, his skull and both thy bones, one we discovered had been broken. . . We collected all the bones and laid them in one Pile, on every skul bone you might see the mark of the skulping knife a round every skul bone." The pieces of guns—many barrels bent double by fiendish Indians—were collected, and four cannon were discovered just where an Indian prisoner had said they would be
