As with Washington, so with Wayne, the most serious task was to choose his officers from the recruits which early in 1792 were hurried on to Pittsburg to defend the frontier under the dashing hero of Stony Point--Wayne's appointment having been well received everywhere save in Virginia and Kentucky. If the army was to be disciplined "according to the nature of the service"--Indian-fighting--Indian-fighters must do the training. "We will be under the necessity," wrote Wayne to Knox from Pittsburg, "of discharging many of the men--who never were--nor never will be fit for service, they are at present a nuisance to the Legion & a useless expense to the publick.... You may rest assured I will carefully guard against improper appointments or recommendations--we shall have some difficulty before we can purge the Legion of Characters who never were fit for Officers."[129] Such administrative ability as this was the very thing needed on the frontier; it drove from the gathering army many useless characters and made possible the encouragement and promotion of such valuable men as Lieutenant William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame), Eaton, and William Henry Harrison. The fine spirit of Wayne infused courage throughout the frontier and made men eager to serve and win promotion, though sometimes "without shoez or shirts called upon to do the hardest duty & 7 mo. pay due--while they have not money to buy a chew of tobacco."[130] One of the most interesting manuscripts now extant of Wayne, his army, its marches and battles, is preserved in the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Its author was no less a personage than Brigadier-general Thomas Posey, associated with General Wilkinson as second in command 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.[131] 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 Gen^l 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 Gen^l 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; this place was accordingly named Legionville. Here, "out of the reach of whisky, which baneful poison is prohibited from entering this camp," as Wayne wrote the Secretary of War,[132] winter quarters were established, houses for the soldiers being erected first and those for officers afterward.