The camp of the army (except artificers) was moved by St. Clair on August 7 six miles northward from Fort Washington to Ludlow's Station,[1] where the pasturage was better and where the troops were not under the influence of the dramshops at the little settlement about the fort.
On the arrival of General Butler and Quartermaster Hodgdon, September 7, a slight delay occurred through Butler's being appointed president of a court-martial which General Harmar had demanded and by which he was honorably acquitted. It was September 17 before the advance was begun from Ludlow's Station northward.
When the army, twenty-three hundred strong, at last filed out from Ludlow's Station, the plan seems to have been to build two forts between Fort Washington and the proposed fort on the Maumee, the first at the ford, twenty-three miles north, on the Great Miami, and the second about the same distance in advance and twice as far from the Maumee.[2]
