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Battle of Thames’ 125 Years Ago
Ended Career of a Great Red Man
Gen. W. H. Harrison's Victory on October 5, 1813, Not Only Marked the Passing
Of "The Most Extraordinary Indian Character In American History" But Also
Johnson, Reputed Slayer of Tecumseh, Vice-President
• Western Newspaper Union.
The Death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames. (From an old wood cut)
Helped Make Col. R. M
Of the United States.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
N AN October day 125
years ago there died in
battle one of the great
est Indians the American
continent has ever known.
His name was Tecumseh, a
chieftain of the Shawnee
tribe, and the engagement in
which he was killed was the
Battle of the Thames. This
battle is not nearly so well
known to the average Ameri
can as a dozen others of less
er importance but its after-
math makes it one of the
most interesting engage
ments in the history of the
United States.
The history of Tecumseh be
gins in 1768 when the wife of
Chief Puckeshinwau of the Shaw-
nees, in the Indian village of Pi-
qua on the Mad river near the
present site of Springfield, Ohio,
gave birth to twin sons. One of
them was given the name of La-
lawethika, referring to a dance
rattle or some similar instru
ment. Later he would take the
name of Tenskwatawa, meaning
the Open Door, through which he
would lead his people to a new
and better life. The whites would
know him as The Prophet, whose
skill as a demagogue, when com
bined with the statesmanship and
military genius of his brother,
would be one of the most serious
threats to, white domination of
the Middle West that it had ever
known.
The other twin was given the
name of Tikamthi or Tecumtha,
meaning One Who Springs and
indicating that he belonged to the
clan of the Great Medicine Pan
ther or Meteor. So the Shaw-
nees knew him as the Crouching
Panther or the Shooting Star, but
history would write him down as
Tecumseh.
When the twins were six years
old their father was killed in the
Battle of Point Pleasant, W. Va.,
where Andrew Lewis and his Vir
ginia frontiersmen defeated Chief
Cornstalk and his Shawnees. Aft
er that young Tecumseh was
placed under the care of an elder
brother who taught him the ways
of warriors until this elder broth
er was killed in battle with file
whites on the Tennessee frontier
in 1788 or 1789.
A Fighting Heritage.
With this fighting heritage Te
cumseh soon distinguished him
self as a warrior but one who
was more humane and chival
rous toward his enemies than
was common among his tribes
men. He fought in two great bat
tles of that period—at the defeat
of St. Clair in 1792 and at Fallen
Timbers in 1794 when “Mad An-
thony” Wayne smashed the pow
er of the Indian confederacy that
had been formed by Little Turtle,
the Miami leader.
Unreconciled to accepting peace
with the whites, Tecumseh re
fused to take part in the Treaty
of Greenville and gathered
around him a band of young war
riors who roved over the pres
ent states of Ohio and Indiana
before finally settling down on
the White river in Indiana about
1798. He remained there for a
few years, peacefully occupied
with hunting, until the continued
encroachment of the whites upon
the lands guaranteed to the In
dians by the Treaty of Green
ville aroused him to action.
On the ground that the Ohio
valley country belonged to all
the tribes in common, he denied
the right of a single tribe to sell
its lands to the whites. When the
federal government refused to
accept this principle and began
negotiations for the purchase of
more land from the Red Men,
he determined to form a great
confederation of all the Western
and Southern tribes for the pur
pose of holding the Ohio river as
the permanent boundary be
tween the two races.
Undaunted by the fact that
Pontiac, the Ottawa, and Little
Turtle, the Miami, had failed in
such a scheme, the Shawnee
leader began visiting other tribes
and enlisting their support. No
doubt he was doomed to failure,
just as ^he other Indian leaders
had failed, but the chances are
that his attempt to hold back
the tide of white settlement would
have come nearer realization
thah theirs had it not been for
his brother, the Prophet.
Tecumseh probably realized
that the Prophet was a charlatan
but he was glad enough to have
the aid of Tenskwatawa’s influ
ence over the superstitious sav
ages in forwarding his plan. He
could not foresee that the charac
ter of his twin brother might
make him more of a liability than
an asset to his cause. For that
was exactly what happened.
While Tecumseh was attempt
ing to enlist the Southern tribes
in his confederation, the Prophet
on November 7, 1811, precipitat
ed the attack on the forces of
Gen. William Henry Harrison at
the Tippecanoe river which end
ed so disastrously for the Indians.
Not only was the Prophet thor
oughly discredited among the
Shawnees by that defeat, but it
dampened the ardor of other
tribes for Tecumseh’s scheme
and he saw his elaborate plans
crash to the earth.
Embittered by this disappoint
ment and still unreconciled to
accepting' American domination
over his country, Tecumseh wel
comed the outbreak of the War
of 1812 and cast his lot with the
British as a possibility of regain
ing control of his ancestral lands.
Nearly all of the war chiefs fol
lowed his lead and Tecumseh
soon found himself the nominal
head of more than 700 Shawnee
warriors.
Made a British General.
Gen. Isaac Brock, commander
of the British forces in the West,
immediately recognized the gen
ius of Tecumseh and made him a
brigadier-general. Thus the
Shawnee chieftain had the dis
tinction of being one of two In
dians who ever held such high
rank in a white man’s army. The
other was Gen. Ely S. Parker,
an *Iroquois who served on
Grant’s staff during the Civil
war.
There was a strong bond of
friendship between Brock and Te
cumseh which continued until
Brock’s death at the Battle of
Queenstown in October, 1812.
General Proctor, his successor,
lacked all of the qualities which
had won the admiration and re
spect of Tecumseh for Brock. De
spite the aid of the Shawnee lead
er and the 2,000 warriors of the
allied tribes which he placed at
Proctor’s disposal, the British
leader soon proved himself such
a bungler, if not actually a cow
ard, that Tecumseh clearly fore
saw the ultimate triumph of the
Americans.
He covered Proctor’s retreat
before Harrison’s £rmy, after
Perry’s decisive victory on Lake
Erie until he became disgusted
with the British commander and,
declining to retreat /arther,
forced Proctor to make a stand
on the Thames river near the
present site of Chatham, Ontario.
Even then he was not sure that
Proctor would fight if he could
avoid it.
His low opinion of the British
commander was soon justified.
At the first attack by Harrison’s
troops, Proctor fled in his car
riage, accompanied by his per
sonal staff, a few dragoons and
some mounted Indians. When the
American cavalry broke the Brit
ish line, Proctor’s soldiers imme
diately threw down their arms
and surrendered. Within five
minutes after the first shot was
fired, the British force was beat
en and most of them were pris
oners.
Very different was the situa
tion when the Kentucky cavalry
men struck the Indians. Before
the battle, Tecumseh with a pre
sentiment of disaster, had told
his friends that he would never
leave the battlefield alive. So he
had laid aside his British gen
eral’s uniform and gone into ac
tion dressed in his native cos
tume.
Under his leadership, the Indi
ans stoutly resisted the onslaught
of Col. Richard M. Johnson’s
mounted men and it was not un
til Tecumseh fell that the sav
ages at last gave way.
Who Killed Tecumseh?
The slayer of the Shawnee
chieftain is unknown. Since there
was nothing in his dress to dis
tinguish him from any other war*
rior, no one on the American side
knew when he fell or whose bul
let it was that killed him. But
that did not prevent several
Americans from claiming that
“honor.” In fact, the question
“Who killed Tecumseh?” became
a famous one in American politi
cal history.
When Col. Richard M. Johnson
was a candidate for vice presi
dent in 1836, his partisans, who
hailed him as “The Hero of the
Thames,” claimed that he was
the slayer of the Shawnee chief
tain, because in those days suc
cess as an Indian fighter was a
: strong recommendation for polit-
• ical preferment.
The claim of Johnson’s follow
ers was based upon the fact that
during'the battle of the Thames
he had killed an Indian, supposed
to be a chief, who had wounded
him and was advancing upon him
with upraised tomahawk when
the Kentuckian shot the Indian
with his pistol. They asserted
that this chief was Tecumseh.
Johnson Claims Corroborated.
More than half a century later
what appears to be a corrobo
ration of the claims of the John
son partisans appeared in the
Century magazine. In a letter
to the editor of the Century Ben
jamin B. Griswold of Carroll,
Md., asserted that in 1842 he was
present when Johnson gave an
account of the incident and “re
marked that for some time a
doubt had existed whether the In
dian killed was really the formid
able chief or not; but, he added,
in terms entirely unqualified, that
recently developed - circum
stances had removed all uncer
tainty as to this fact. He gave
no information showing what cir
cumstances had determined his
question, but simply spoke with
positiveness on the subject.”
This resulted in another letter,
written by D. B. Cook, editor of
the Niles (Mich.) Mirror, tell-
. ing of an interview he had had
with Noon Day, chief of the Ot-
tawas, in 1838. He said Noon
Day had told hinv that he was
near Tecumseh when he was
slain and had helped carry his
body from the field. Later when
Noon Day was taken to Washing
ton by Gen. Lewis Cass to see
the “Great White Father,” Pres-
. ident Van Buren, and was intro
duced to Vice President Johnson,
he recognized him immediately
as the man he had seen shoot
Tecumseh at the Thames. So it
seems entire probable that
Johnson was the slayer of the
great Shawnee leader.
Indicative of the greatness of
Tecumseh is the fact that despite
pioneer prejudice against the In
dian, he was the subject of a
poetic tribute by one of Ohio’s
early bards. Charles A. Jones
(1815-1851) was the author of
TECUMSEH
Where rolls the dark and turbid
Thames
His consecrated wave along
Sleeps one, than whose, few are
the names
More worthy of the lyre and
song;
Yet o’er whose spot of lone re
pose
No pilgrim eyes are seen to
weep;
And no memorial marble throws
Its shadows where his ashes
sleep.
Stop, stranger! there Tecumseh
lies;
Behold the lowly resting place
Of all that of the hero dies;
The Caesar—Tully—of his
race;
Whose arm of strength and fiery
tongue
Have won him an immortal
name.
And from the mouths of millions
wrung
Reluctant tribute to his fame.
Stop—for ’tis glory claims thy
tear!
True worth belongs to all man
kind;
And he whose ashes slumber here
Though man in form was god
in mind.
What matter he was not like
these ,
In race and color—this the soul
That marks man’s true divinity—
Then let not shame thy ear
control.
Art thou a patriot?—so was he!
His breast was Freedom’s holi
est shrine;
And as thou bendest there thy
knee
His spirit will unite with thine.
All that a man can give, he
gave—
His life—the country of his
sires
From the oppressor’s grasp to
save;
In vain—quenched are the na
tion’s fires.
Art thou a soldier? Dost thou not
O’er deeds chivalric love to
muse?
Here stay thy steps—what better
spot
Couldst thou for contemplation
choose?
The earth beneath is holy ground,
It holds a thousand valiant
braves.
Tread lightly o’er each little
mound.
For they are no ignoble graves.
Thermopylae and Marathon,
Though classic earth can boast
no more
Of deeds heroic than yon sun
Once saw upon this lonely
shore,
When in a gallant nation’s last
And deadliest struggle, for its
own,
Tecumseh’s fiery spirit pass’d
In blood, and sought its Fa
ther’s throne.
Oh, softly fall the summer dew,
The tears of heaven, upon his
sod,
For he in life and death was true
Both to his country and his
God;
For, oh, if God to man has given
From his bright home beyond
the skies
One feeling that’s akin to heaven,
’Tis he who for his country dies.
Rest, warrior, rest! Though not
a dirge
Is thine, beside the wailing
blast.
Time cannot in oblivion merge
The light thy star of glory cast;
While heave yon high hills to the
sky,
While rolls yon dark and tur
bid river,
Thy name and fame can never
die—
Whom freedom loves will live
forever.
Discounting the sentimentality
of that poem, so characteristic
of the period in American litera
ture in which it was written, it
is not an over-estimate of the
man it honors. For, as James
Mooney says in his sketch of Te
cumseh in the “Handbook of
American Indians,” published by
the Bureau of American Ethnol
ogy of the Smithsonian institu
tion, “From all that is said of
Tecumseh in contemporary rec
ord, there is no reason to doubt
the verdict of Trumbull that he
was the most extraordinary In
dian character in United States
history.”
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