During the War of 1812, six hundred mounted rifle dragoons, volunteer recruits from Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio under Lt. Col. John Campbell of Virginia, were sent from Franklinton, Ohio, by Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison and President James Madison to destroy food stores, livestock, and Indian resistance on the lower Mississinewa and Wabash to prevent British incursion from the west and from Canada. Traveling northwest on this trail and crossing the shallow ford at the Elkhorn to return to Fort Greenville by way of the Conner Trace, the force included Wm. Conner, who had married Delaware Chief Anderson's daughter, as one of Campbell's twelve trail scouts. The troops moved in twenty files of thirty horsemen each and cooked their noon meal south of here at Dinner Greek on Dec. 16th. After a forced all-night march, they reached the first Miami villages by dawn on Dec. 17th and began their destruction while Chief Tecumseh was absent. The Indians attacked at 4:00 a.m. on Dec. 18th, and Campbell's troops suffered severe losses of one hundred horses, forty men wounded, and eight men killed, with five more dying later, for thirteen dead in all. Two soldiers, Carnahan and Peyatt, died from their wounds after the Battle of the Mississinewa on Dec. 20, 1812, while on the way back to Fort Greenville, and a third soldier, Jesse Benton, was lost in a quagmire sinkhole west of here, with neither horse nor rider saved. Two wounded men, Carnahan and Smith, also died the next day east of Dinner Creek on Dec. 21 at camp on Low's Branch. The retreating troops were in desperate condition, with three hundred men suffering severe frostbite, all food gone, and starving horses unable to go farther. They camped in Jackson Township on Army Branch, later Low Branch, two days from Fort Greenville, and runners went ahead to seek food and aid. Joe Hawkins brought Capt. John Adair with pack horses for relief. Sgt. Thos. Smith and Pvt. Findlay Carnahan were believed taken to Fort Greenville for burial. The troops finally reached the fort on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1812, and forty Indian prisoners were delivered to the Indian agent at Piqua.