Border War

by John L. Moore

Months after the October 1781 surrender of the British army at Yorktown, pro-British Indians continued to raid American frontier settlements along the Ohio River.

To stop these raids, a militia force of nearly 500 Pennsylvanians and Virginians, all of them on horseback, invaded Ohio in early 1782. Led by Colonel William Crawford, the militia intended to destroy the villages of the Delaware, Shawnee, and other hostile tribes. Accustomed to fighting in the forests, the troops ventured as far west as the prairies of the Sandusky River Valley.

Drawing upon first-person accounts, the nonfiction Border War tells the story of this disastrous campaign. Author John L. Moore reports that the Indians were expecting them. As the chiefs told an American missionary afterward, the warriors had been waiting “under cover of a grove of trees.” When the militia soldiers “reached a certain spot in an open prairie, where they had no hiding places,” the Indians “engaged them, compelling them to fight.”

The fighting lasted several hours. “The battle was very hot till night, which put a stop to firing,” a British officer said afterward.

On the second day, so many warriors arrived as reinforcements that Colonel Crawford realized the foe had become “vastly superior to us in numbers,” Lieutenant John Rose reported later. When the hostiles “kept pouring in hourly from all quarters … prudence dictated a retreat.”

Intended as a nighttime retreat, the maneuver quickly deteriorated into a rout. In the darkness and confusion, many men became separated from their companies. Even Colonel Crawford got lost. Border War doesn’t flinch in detailing the fates of Crawford and others captured by the Indians.

124 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 6, 2022

About the author

I was born to woman in 1952 and born into the Kingdom in June of 1973 after years of looking for God in drugs, eastern religions, the occult and martial arts. In 1975 I was Baptized in the Holy Spirit in a profound and powerful way. In 1985 I was healed of a life-threatening liver disease. Since 1982, Debra and I have been involved in home church ministry and training people to hear from God and speak what they hear. We have been blessed to be influenced by some wonderful men and women of God, most of them can be found on our "Links" page.

We are the parents of two wonderful children and their wonderful spouses: Jess, and his wife, Kami; and Andrea, her husband, Rob Ferguson. They've given us five beautiful grandchildren: Creed, Selah Ann, Ryann, David, and Autumn.

My statement of beliefs can be summed up like this: Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The Baptism in the Spirit empowers the Believer. Inner Healing and Deliverance is part of every believer's need for sanctification. Hearing from God and moving in the Gifts of the Spirit are vital. God is restoring David's Tabernacle and the Five-Fold Ministries of Ephesians 4:11. Those offices are about functions, not titles. Prophetic ministry is more about forth-telling the heart of God than it is fore-telling the future. If you don't know his heart He won't tell you the future. We could all read the Bible and pray more. Jesus is coming back. I don't know when. I do know He is coming back on a horse, so I don't think He minds if we raise good horses. Until He returns, we are dedicated to doing the work of the Kingdom everywhere, and especially in the marketplace. Happiness is realizing He must increase but we must decrease. Decreasing does not mean a loss of personal identity, instead it is the discovery of one's real identity. Young people can move as powerfully in the Spirit as adults, in fact, in many cases, they do it much better because their mind doesn't get in the way.

That's about it.