CHARACTERS

Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson

Johnson was commissioned a Colonel in the army in 1812. Johnson led 1,000 cavalrymen in the rebuilt Army of the Northwest under William Henry Harrison.

When called up from Ohio by Harrison, Johnson led his forces over the battlefield at river Raisin. They found that the local Native Americans had dug up the graves of the American dead and scattered the remains. This was the start of the famous battle cry Remember the Raisin.

Johnson's cavalry participated in the Battle of the Thames. Wounded five times, he managed to shoot a warrior with a pistol who was aiming directly at him. There where some who upheld that he personally killed the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. Johnson would use this fame to become a senator and 9th Vice President of the United States.