“A short time before the action, he wrote the following concise and impressive letter to a friend: ‘The enemy are not far distant—I expect an attack—I will defend this post to the last extremity. I have just sent away the women and children with the sick of the garrison that I may be able to act without encumbrances. Be satisfied; I shall, I hope, do my duty. The example set me by my revolutionary kindred is before me; let me die rather than prove unworthy of their name.’ “In the afternoon of the first day of August, the attack upon Fort Stephenson was commenced. The particulars of that memorable and brilliant action can be found in General Harrison’s official account of this period. A lucid statement of the honorable motives which influenced Colonel Croghan’s conduct on that occasion is contained in an ‘extract of a letter from himself to his friend in Seneca Town, dated August 27, 1813.’ These accounts and other interesting particulars will be found in public prints issued between August 14 and September 16. “Major Croghan’s conduct after the battle was as noble as it had been during the hardest fighting. The wounded were treated by him with the greatest tenderness; with considerable peril, he gave them water by means of buckets let down by ropes to the outside of the pickets. During the night, when he could not safely open the fort, he had a tunnel dug under the wall and through it the wounded were conveyed into the fort. “Major Croghan accompanied General Harrison to Malden, but, as the brigade to which he was attached was stationed there, he did not participate in the Battle of the Thames. He is remarkable as a disciplinarian, and his orders are given with more promptness, precision, and energy than are usually found in the orders of older and more experienced commanders.” I have appended the following extract of a letter written by one of Colonel Croghan’s fellow students and fellow soldiers. It will throw additional light on the military character of that distinguished young officer. Lieutenant Colonel George Croghan is a native of Kentucky; he is the second son of Major William Croghan of near Louisville. He is the nephew of the gallant hero and accomplished general, George Rogers Clark, the Father of the Western Country, and of General William Clark, the present enterprising governor of the Missouri Territory. His father, a native of Ireland who early embarked to seek his fortune in America, was a distinguished officer in the War of the Revolution. Lieutenant Colonel Croghan was born on November 15, 1791, and received all the advantages of education which the best grammar schools in Kentucky could afford; in his seventeenth year he commenced a scientific course at William and Mary College in Virginia. In school and college he was known for his manliness of character, his elevation of sentiment, and his strength of intellect; all these virtues were connected with a high and persevering ambition.