Leaving Camp Starvation, Camp #3, on January 1st of 1813, General Winchester's army started toward the rapids of the Maumee. On January 3, 1813, Ellias Darnell recorded that it commenced snowing for two days and nights and that the snow was from 20 to 24 inches deep. Nearby, the army had to rake snow away, make fires, and pitch tents, then get bark or bushes to lie on, while basswood was of great service. General Winchester's force of 2000 men was heading downriver, where 1000 men would eventually end up at the Massacre of the River Raisin at Frenchtown, Monroe, Michigan, on the 22nd of January. Darnell also wrote that many horses gave out, sleds broke down, and as many as six Kentuckians were substituted for a horse pulling their plunder. In the Napoleon area, he observed that the march had passed through some good land, especially the very rich river bottoms.