ABSTRACT
Citizens of Kentucky were particularly harassed by Indian raids, and they responded by striking back with mounted volunteers, led by various militia officers. One of these commanders, General Charles Scott, was an especially prominent and effective leader of the mounted volunteers in the years 1790–1794, and he, along with his fellow citizen soldiers, played an important role in the Indian wars of that time. General Scott's role as a rough-and-tumble Indian fighter had come naturally to him. In 1786 Virginia Governor Patrick Henry, under heated pressure from his Kentucky constituents, instructed the Kentucky militiamen "to concert some system for their own defence," and it was at that time that they determined to deliver militia retribution upon the Indians. In April 1790 Scott volunteered as a private citizen to bring forward a contingent of Kentucky volunteers and join Josiah Harmar in a joint regular-militia raid against the northwest Indians.
