It was his first stint with the army and his only one with Colonel Bouquet. Afterwards he was to serve under Generals Sullivan, Broadhead and Wayne, but Bouquet was the one he claimed he’d go through hell for the willingest. The Colonel was the peacefullest man, Del used to say, but mad as a wolverine. He marched his men out of Fort Pitt that fall day like they were going to a celebration. And what was the celebration? Why, they were setting out on a suicide march! They were heading more than a hundred miles into hostile Indian territory! Mind you, this was plumb wilderness, with no roads, and no forts or white settlements to fall back on. Every day the savages would be lying thick as copper snakes in the woods around them. The whites would be outnumbered two to one, maybe worse. And yet the peace-palavering Colonel swore he wouldn’t halt till he’d reach the Forks of the Muskingum, which only a few of his men had ever seen. Del never expected to reach those Forks alive. Nor did a lot of older and more seasoned men.
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