Of the forty-two men who had been in the fort [Fort Henry], twenty-five were killed, all outside of the walls; of the savages, probably one hundred perished.*
[The Zanes, and a number of other families, came from the South branch of the Potomac, and located themselves on the site of Wheeling, in 1769. Of the number were Capt. Joseph Ogle and his brother Jacob Ogle. The latter was mortally wounded in the siege of Fort Henry, and the former, with twelve men, went out to the rescue of Captain Mason, who had been dispatched with fourteen men, by Colonel Shepherd, to drive the Indians from the corn-field, where they were secreted.
The self-devoted band under Captain Ogle, in their eagerness to relieve their fellow-soldiers under Mason, fell into an ambuscade, and two-thirds of their number were slain on the spot. The fort now contained but thirteen men and boys, with a large number of women and children, when Girty and his four hundred Indians entered the village and called on them to surrender. Captain Ogle escaped in the brush wood, ran to the nearest settlement, rallied Major McColloch, and the men of Short Creek, and accompanied them next morning to the fort. In this manner the garrison was saved.
Captain Ogle, in 1785, emigrated to the Illinois country, where he was one of its bravest defenders, and has left a numerous posterity.
As Simon Girty will figure in the Annals as a leader in the marauding enterprises of the Indians, and as a partisan-of the British, it will be interesting to the reader to have some particulars of his history and that of his family and associates. We copy from the life of Boone, in the Library of American Biography, vol. xxiii.
