Charles Scott (governor)

Charles Scott

4th Governor of Kentucky

In office
September 1, 1808 – August 24, 1812
Lieutenant Gabriel Slaughter
Preceded by Christopher Greenup
Succeeded by Isaac Shelby
Personal details
April 1739
Born
Colony of Virginia (present-day Cumberland County, Virginia)
October 22, 1813 (aged 74)
Died
Clark County, Kentucky
Resting place Frankfort Cemetery
Political party Democratic-Republican
Frances Sweeney ( 1762–1804)
Spouse(s)
Judith Cary (Bell) Gist ( 1807–1813)
Father-in-law of George M. Bibb
Relations Step-father-in-law of Jesse Bledsoe, Nathaniel G. S. Hartand Francis Preston
Blair
Residence Petersburg, Canewood
Occupation Farmer, miller
Profession Soldier, politician

Signature

Military service
Allegiance Colony of Virginia, Thirteen Colonies, United States
Virginia militia
Service/branch Continental Army
Kentucky militia
 1755–c.1761
Years of service 1775–1783
1790–1794
Rank Major General
Virginia Regiment
Unit
2nd Virginia Regiment
5th Virginia Regiment
Commands 4th Virginia Brigade
2nd Division, Kentucky militia
Battles/wars French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, Northwest Indian War
Charles Scott (April 1739 – October 22, 1813) was an 18th-century American
soldier who was elected the fourth Governor of Kentuckyin 1808. Orphaned at
an early age, Scott enlisted in the Virginia Regiment in October 1755 and
served as a scout and escort during the French and Indian War. He quickly rose
through the ranks to become a captain. After the war, he married and engaged
in agricultural pursuits on land left to him by his father, but he returned to
active military service in 1775 as the American Revolution began to grow in
intensity. In August 1776, he was promoted to colonel and given command of
the 5th Virginia Regiment. The 5th Virginia joined George Washington in New
Jersey later that year, serving with him for the duration of the Philadelphia
campaign. Scott commanded Washington's light infantry, and by late 1778 was
also serving as his chief of intelligence. Furloughed at the end of the
Philadelphia campaign, Scott returned to active service in March 1779 and was
ordered to South Carolina to assist General Benjamin Lincoln in the southern
theater. He arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, just as Henry Clinton had
begun his siege of the city. Scott was taken as a prisoner of war when
Charleston surrendered. Paroled in March 1781 and exchanged for Lord
Rawdon in July 1782, Scott managed to complete a few recruiting assignments
before the war ended.

After the war, Scott visited the western frontier in 1785 and began to make
preparations for a permanent relocation. He resettled near present-
day Versailles, Kentucky, in 1787. Confronted by the dangers of Indian raids,
Scott raised a company of volunteers in 1790 and joined Josiah Harmar for an
expedition against the Indians. After Harmar's Defeat, President Washington
ordered Arthur St. Clair to prepare for an invasion of Indian lands in
 the Northwest Territory. In the meantime, Scott, by now holding the rank
of brigadier general in the Virginia militia, was ordered to conduct a series of
preliminary raids. In July 1791, he led the most notable and successful of these
raids against the village of Ouiatenon. St. Clair's main invasion, conducted later
that year, was a failure. Shortly after the separation of Kentucky from Virginia
in 1792, the Kentucky General Assembly commissioned Scott as a major
general and gave him command of the 2nd Division of the Kentucky militia.
Scott's division cooperated with "Mad" Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United
States for the rest of the Northwest Indian War, including their decisive victory
at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Having previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates and as

a presidential elector, the aging Scott now ran for governor. His 1808 campaign
was skillfully managed by his step-son-in-law, Jesse Bledsoe, and he won a
convincing victory over John Allen and Green Clay. A fall on the icy steps of
the governor's mansion early in his term confined Scott to crutches for the rest
of his life, and left him heavily reliant on Bledsoe, whom he
appointed Secretary of State. Although he frequently clashed with the state
legislature over domestic matters, the primary concern of his administration
was the increasing tension between the United States and Great Britain that
eventually led to the War of 1812. Scott's decision to appoint William Henry
Harrison as brevet major general in the Kentucky militia, although probably in
violation of the state constitution as Harrison was not a resident of the state,
was nonetheless praised by the state's citizens. After his term expired, Scott
returned to his Canewood estate. His health declined rapidly, and he died on
October 22, 1813. Scott County, Kentucky, and Scott County, Indiana, are
named in his honor, as are the cities of Scottsville, Kentucky, and Scottsville,
Virginia.

Contents

• 1 Early life and family

• 2 Revolutionary War
• 2.1 Philadelphia campaign

• 2.2 Service in the southern theater and capture

• 3 Settlement in Kentucky and early political career

• 4 Northwest Indian War

• 4.1 The Blackberry Campaign

• 4.2 St. Clair expedition

• 4.3 Service with the Legion of the United States

• 5 Later political career

• 5.1 Gubernatorial election of 1808

• 5.2 Governorship

• 5.3 Death and legacy

• 6 References

• 6.1 Bibliography

• 7 Further reading

• 8 External links

Early life and family[edit]

Charles Scott was born in 1739, probably in April, in the part of Goochland
County, Virginia, that is now Powhatan County.[contradictory][1][2] His father,
Samuel Scott, was a farmer and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
[3] His mother, whose name is not known, died most likely around 1745. [4] Scott
had an older brother, John, and three younger siblings, Edward, Joseph, and
Martha.[4] He received only a basic education from his parents and in the rural
Virginia schools near his home.[5]
Shortly after his father died in 1755, Scott was apprenticed to a carpenter.[3]
[6] In late July 1755, a local court was preparing to place him with a guardian,
but in October, before the court acted, Scott enlisted in the Virginia Regiment.
 He was assigned to David Bell's company.[6] During the early part of
[2][6]
the French and Indian War, he won praise from his superiors as a frontier scout
and woodsman.[3] Most of his fellow soldiers were undisciplined and poorly
trained, allowing Scott to stand out and quickly rise to the rank of corporal.
[7] By June 1756, he had been promoted to sergeant.[7]

Scott served under George Washington in the Braddock Expedition, a failed

attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French.[2] For most of 1756 and the
early part of 1757, he divided his time between Fort Cumberland and Fort
Washington, conducting scouting and escort missions.[8] In April 1757, David
Bell was relieved of his command as part of a general downsizing of
Washington's regiment, and Scott was assigned to Captain Robert McKenzie
at Fort Pearsall.[8] In August and September, Washington sent Scott and a small
scouting party on two reconnaissance missions to Fort Duquesne in preparation
for an assault on that fort, but the party learned little on either mission.[9] In
November, Scott was part of the Forbes Expedition that captured the fort.[9] He
spent the latter part of the year at Fort Loudoun, where Washington promoted
him to ensign.[9]
Scott spent most of 1759 conducting escort missions and constructing roads
and forts.[10] During this time, Virginia's forces were taken from George
Washington and put under the control of Colonel William Byrd.[10] In July 1760,
Scott was named the fifth captain of a group of Virginia troops that Byrd led on
an expedition against the Cherokee in 1760.[10]Scott's exact role in the
campaign is not known.[10] The expedition was a success, and Virginia
Governor Francis Fauquier ordered the force disbanded in February 1762; Scott
had left the army at some unknown date prior to that.[11]
Sometime prior to 1762, Scott's older brother, John, died, leaving Scott to
inherit his father's land near the James River and Muddy Creek.[4] Having left
the army, he had settled on his inherited farm by late 1761.[11] On February 25,
1762, he married Frances Sweeney from Cumberland County, Virginia.[2] With
the help of approximately 10 slaves, Scott engaged in growing tobacco and
milling flour on his farm.[12] In July 1766, he was named one of two captains in
the local militia.[13] Over the next several years, Scott and his wife had four
boys and four or five girls.[3]
Revolutionary War[edit]

Lord Dunmore; Scott's men helped drive him from Virginia

As the American Revolution intensified in 1775, Scott raised a company of

volunteers in Cumberland County.[13] It was the first company formed south of
the James River to participate in the Revolution.[2] The company stood ready to
aid Patrick Henry in an anticipated clash with Lord Dunmoreat Williamsburg,
Virginia, in May 1775, but Dunmore abandoned the city in June, and they joined
units from the surrounding counties in Williamsburg later that month.[14] In July,
the Virginia Convention created two regiments of Virginia troops, one under
Patrick Henry and the other under William Woodford.[15] As those leaders
departed for Williamsburg, the Conventions acknowledged Scott as temporary
commander-in-chief of the volunteers already assembled there.[15] On August
17, 1775, he was elected lieutenant colonel of Woodford's regiment, the 2nd
Virginia.[15] His younger brother, Joseph, served as a lieutenant in the regiment.
[15] In December, Woodford dispatched Scott and 150 men to Great Bridge,
Virginia, to defend a crossing point on the Elizabeth River.[16] Days later, this
force played a significant role in the December 9, 1775, Battle of Great
Bridge by killing British Captain Charles Fordyce, thereby halting the British
advance on the crossing.[17] Following the battle, colonial forces were able to
occupy the city of Norfolk, Virginia, and Lord Dunmore eventually departed
from Virginia.[3][18]
On February 13, 1776, the 2nd Virginia became a part of the Continental Army;
Scott retained his rank of lieutenant colonel during the transition.[19]After
spending the winter with part of the 2nd Virginia in Suffolk, Scott was chosen
by the Second Continental Congress as colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment on
August 12, 1776; he replaced Colonel William Peachy, who had resigned.[5]
[20] The 5th Virginia was stationed in the cities
of Hamptonand Portsmouth through the end of September.[20] They were then
ordered to join George Washington in New Jersey, eventually repairing to the
city of Trenton in November.[20]
Philadelphia campaign[edit]
See also: Philadelphia campaign
Serving as part of Adam Stephen's brigade, Scott's 5th Virginia Regiment
fought in the colonial victory at the December 26 Battle of Trenton.[21] During
the subsequent Battle of the Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777, the 5th
Virginia helped slow the advance of a combined force of British light infantry
and Hessian mercenaries toward Trenton.[22] Major George Johnston, a member
of the 5th Virginia, opined that Scott had "acquired immortal honor" from his
performance at Assunpink Creek.[23] Following these battles, Washington's main
force prepared to spend the winter at Morristown, New Jersey, while Scott's
regiment was based at nearby Chatham.[24] From this base, he led light infantry
raids against British foraging parties.[21] In his most notable engagement – the
February 1 Battle of Drake's Farm – he defeated a superior combination of
British and Hessian soldiers.[21][25] He led another notable raid against a large
British force of about 2,000 at the February 8 Battle of Quibbletown.[26]

George Washington, commander of the colonial forces during the Philadelphia Campaign

In March 1777, Scott returned to his Virginia farm, taking his first furlough in
more than a year.[27] In recognition of his service with Washington, Congress
commissioned him a brigadier general on April 2, 1777.[25][28] At Washington's
request, he returned to Trenton on May 10, 1777.[27] His 4th Virginia Brigade
and another brigade under William Woodford constituted the Virginia division,
commanded by Adam Stephen, who had been promoted to major general.
[25] With Stephen and Brigadier General William Maxwell ill, Scott assumed
temporary command of the division between May 19 and 24.[29] Washington
spent much of mid-1777 trying to anticipate and counter the moves of British
General William Howe, and the lull in the fighting allowed Scott time to file a
protest with Congress regarding how his seniority and rank had been
calculated.[30] After eight months of deliberation, Congress concurred with
Scott's protest, placing him ahead of fellow brigadier general George
Weedon in seniority.[31]
At the September 11 Battle of Brandywine, the 4th Virginia Brigade stubbornly
resisted the advance of General Charles Cornwallis, but was ultimately forced
to retreat.[25] Following the British victory, Howe marched toward Philadelphia,
stopping briefly at Germantown.[32] Scott persistently advocated for an attack
on Howe's position at Germantown, and although he was initially in the
minority among Washington's generals, he ultimately prevailed upon
Washington to conduct the attack.[33] On October 4, 1777, the 4th Virginia
attacked the British in the Battle of Germantown.[34] Because of their circuitous
route to the battle, the field was already covered by heavy smoke
from muskets and a fire set by the British in a dry buckwheat field when they
arrived; they and the other colonial forces were lost in the smoke and
retreated.[33]
After the defeat at Germantown, Washington's troops took a position in the hills
surrounding Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, about 14 miles (23 km) from
Philadelphia.[35] Scott and four other generals initially favored an attack on
Philadelphia in December, but after hearing Washington's assessment of the
enemy's defenses there, they abandoned the idea.[36] After a series of
skirmishes with Howe's men near Whitemarsh, Washington's army camped for
the winter at Valley Forge.[2] Scott was afforded the luxury of boarding at the
farm of Samuel Jones, about three miles from the camp, but rode out to inspect
his brigade daily.[37] Washington granted him a furlough in mid-March 1778,
and he returned to Valley Forge on May 20, 1778.[38]
When Washington and his men abandoned Valley Forge in mid-June 1778, Scott
was ordered to take 1,500 light infantrymen and harass the British forces as
they marched across New Jersey.[39] On June 26, the Marquis de
Lafayette joined Scott with an additional 1,000 men, in anticipation of a major
offensive the next day.[39] General Charles Lee was chosen to command the
operation, which was delayed by one day due to inadequate communications
and delays in forwarding provisions.[40] Lee shared no battle plan with his
generals, later claiming he had insufficient intelligence to form one.[41] On the
morning of June 28, Lee launched the attack, beginning the Battle of
Monmouth.[41] During the battle, Scott observed American artillerymen
retreating.[41] Not realizing that the men had only run out of ammunition, Scott
believed the retreat was a sign of the collapse of the American offensive and
ordered his men to retreat as well.[41] Lacking a battle plan for guidance,
William Maxwell and Anthony Wayne, whose units were fighting adjacent to
Scott's men, also ordered a retreat.[41] With such a great number of his men
retreating, Lee fell back and eventually aborted the offensive.[41] Although
Washington's main force arrived and stopped the British advance, Scott's
retreat was partially blamed for giving them control of the battle.[21]
[42] Tradition holds that, in the aftermath of the battle, Scott witnessed
Washington excoriating Lee in a profanity-laden tirade, but biographer Harry M.
Ward considered it unlikely that Scott was present at the meeting.[43] Lee was
later court-martialed for the retreat and suspended from command.[44]
Following the Battle of Monmouth, the British retreated to New York City.[42] On
August 14, Scott was given command of a new light infantry corps organized
by Washington.[45] He also served as Washington's chief of intelligence,
conducting constant scouting missions from the Americans' new base at White
Plains, New York.[45] While Scott's men engaged in a few skirmishes with British
scouting parties, neither Washington's army nor the British force at New York
City conducted any major operations before Scott was furloughed in November
1778.[46]
Service in the southern theater and capture[edit]
See also: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War

A March 1779 letter from Washington to Scott, still on furlough in Virginia,

ordered him to recruit volunteers in Virginia and join Washington
at Middlebrook on May 1.[47] Men and supplies proved difficult to obtain,
delaying Scott's return; during the delay, Washington ordered the recruits
to South Carolina to join Benjamin Lincoln, who was in command of the militia
forces there.[48] Reports of significant British troop movements
toward Georgia had convinced Washington that the enemy was preparing an
invasion from the south.[48]

Benjamin Lincoln, commander of the forces at Charleston, South Carolina

Soon after Washington's orders were delivered, a British raiding party

under George Collier and Edward Mathew arrived in Virginia to capture or
destroy supplies that might otherwise be sent southward to aid the
reinforcements going to South Carolina.[49] Scott's orders changed again;
the Virginia House of Delegates ordered him to immediately prepare defenses
against Collier and Mathew's raids.[49] When it became clear to both the
legislature and Washington that Collier and Mathew intended only to raid
supplies, not to invade, they concluded that the local militia would be able to
sufficiently protect Virginia's interests and that Scott should continue to recruit
men to reinforce the south.[50] The legislators presented him with a horse, a
firearm, and 500 pounds sterling for his quick response to the threat.[50]
Scott's recruiting difficulties in Virginia continued, despite the implementation
of a draft by the state legislature.[51] Finally, in October 1779, he forwarded
troops sent to him from Washington's Northern Army on to Lincoln in South
Carolina, fulfilling his quota.[52] He retained only Abraham Buford's regiment
with him in Virginia.[52] In February 1780, about 750 men sent by Washington
under William Woodford arrived at Scott's camp in Petersburg, Virginia.
[53] Virginia authorities, fearing that the British force to the south under
General Henry Clinton would turn north to Virginia, detained Scott and
Woodford until it was clear that Clinton's object was Lincoln's position
at Charleston, South Carolina.[53]
On March 30, 1780, Scott arrived in Charleston just as Clinton was laying siege
to the city.[34] He was captured when the city surrendered on May 12, 1780,
and was held as a prisoner of war at Haddrell's Point near Charleston.[21]
[34] Although he was a prisoner, he was given freedom to move within a six-mile
radius and was allowed to correspond and trade with acquaintances in Virginia.
[54] With the death of William Woodford on November 13, 1780, he became
primarily responsible for the welfare of the Virginia troops at Haddrell's Point.
[55] He requested his parole on account of ill health on January 30, 1781, and in
late March, Charles Cornwallis granted the request.[56]
In July 1782, Scott was exchanged for Lord Rawdon, ending his parole.
[21] Washington informed him that he was back on active duty and ordered him
to assist General Peter Muhlenberg's recruiting efforts in Virginia, then to report
to General Nathanael Greene.[57] Greene wrote that he did not have a
command for Scott, and requested that he remain with Muhlenberg in Virginia.
[57] The few troops he was able to recruit were sent to a depot at Winchester,
Virginia.[58] When the preliminary articles of peace between the United States
and Great Britain were signed in March 1783, recruiting stopped altogether.
[58] Scott was brevetted to major general on September 30, 1783, just prior to
his discharge from the Continental Army.[2][34] Following the war, he became
one of the founding members of the Society of the Cincinnati.[2]

Settlement in Kentucky and early political career[edit]

Peyton Short accompanied Scott to Kentucky in 1785.

In October 1783, the Virginia Legislature authorized Scott to commission

superintendents and surveyors to survey the lands given to soldiers for their
service in the Revolutionary War.[2] Enticed by glowing reports of Kentucky by
his friend, James Wilkinson, he arranged for a cabin to be built for him near
the Kentucky River, although the builder apparently laid only the cornerstone.
[59] Scott first visited Kentucky in mid-1785.[60] Traveling with Peyton Short, one
of Wilkinson's business partners, he came to Limestone (present-day Maysville,
Kentucky) via the Monongahela and OhioRivers.[60] Scott and Short then
traveled overland to the Kentucky River to examine the land they would later
claim.[60] Scott's stay in Kentucky was a short one; he had returned to his farm
in Virginia by September 1785.[60]
On his return to Virginia, Scott employed Edward Carrington, former
quartermaster general of the Southern Army, to set his financial affairs in order
in preparation for a move to Kentucky.[60] Carrington purchased Scott's Virginia
farm in 1785, but allowed the family to live there until they moved to the
frontier.[61] In 1787, Scott settled near the city of Versailles, Kentucky.
[21] Between his military claims and those of his children, the Scott family was
entitled to 21,035 acres (8,513 ha) in Fayette and Bourbon counties.[62] Scott
constructed a two-story log cabin, a stockade, and a tobacco inspection
warehouse.[21] In June 1787, Shawnee warriors killed and scalped his son,
Samuel, while he was crossing the Ohio River in a canoe; the elder Scott
watched helplessly from the riverbank.[63] Although a small party of settlers
pursued the Shawnees back across the river, they were not able to overtake
them.[64] In volume three of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West, he
stated that Scott "delighted in war" against the Indians after the death of his
son.[65]
Scott focused on the development of his homestead as a way to deal with the
grief of losing his son.[64] The settlement became known as Scott's Landing,
and Scott briefly served as a tobacco inspector for the area.[64] Determined to
make Scott's Landing the centerpiece of a larger settlement called Petersburg,
he began selling lots near the settlement in November 1788.[66] Among those
who purchased lots were James Wilkinson, Abraham Buford, Judge George
Muter, and future Congressman and Kentucky Governor Christopher Greenup.
[66]

Scott was one of 37 men who founded the Kentucky Society for the Promotion
of Useful Knowledge in 1787.[67] Although he did not participate in any of the
ten statehood conventions that sought to separate Kentucky from Virginia, he
supported the idea in principle.[68] When Woodford County was formed from the
part of Fayette County that included Scott's fledgling settlement, Scott declined
appointment as the new county's lieutenant.[69] He consented to be a
candidate to represent the county in the Virginia House of Delegates.[69] During
his single term, he served on the committee on privileges and election and on
several special committees, including one that recommended that President
George Washington supply a military guard at Big Bone Lick to facilitate the
establishment of a saltworks there.[69]

Northwest Indian War[edit]

Josiah Harmar's failed campaign convinced Kentuckians that only local militia could effectively fight the
Indians of the Northwest Territory.

As tensions mounted between the Indians in the Northwest Territory and

settlers on the Kentucky frontier, President Washington began sanctioning joint
operations between federal army troops and local frontier militia against the
Indians.[70] In April 1790, Scott raised a contingent of volunteers from Bourbon
and Fayette counties to join Josiah Harmar in a raid against the Western
Confederacy along the Scioto River in what would become the U.S. state
of Ohio.[71] The combined force of regulars and militia departed from Limestone
on April 18, 1790, crossing the Ohio River and marching to the upper Scioto.
[71] From there, they headed south, toward the present-day city of Portsmouth,
Ohio, and discovered an abandoned Indian camp.[72] Fresh footprints, including
those of a well-known Shawnee warrior – nicknamed Reel Foot because of his
two club feet – led away from the camp site.[72] Scott sent a small detachment
to follow the tracks; ultimately, they discovered and killed four Shawnee,
including Reel Foot.[72]Other than this, the expedition accomplished nothing,
and it disbanded on August 27, 1790.[72]
In June 1790, Harmar and Arthur St. Clair were ordered to lead another
expedition against the Indians.[73] Harmar had hoped that Scott, Isaac Shelby,
or Benjamin Logan would join the campaign and lead the Kentucky militia, but
all three declined.[73] Scott had been elected to represent Woodford County in
the Virginia General Assembly, and his legislative duty prevented his service.
[73] He believed that the Kentucky militiamen would only serve under Colonel
Robert Trotter, a veteran of Logan's earlier Indian fighting campaigns.
[73] Ultimately, command of the Kentucky militiamen was given to Major John
Hardin, and many militiamen refused to join the campaign, just as Scott had
predicted.[73] During the expedition, Scott's son, Merritt, who was serving as a
captain in the Woodford County militia, was killed and scalped.[73] The entire
expedition was a failure, and it solidified the Kentucky militiamen's strong
distrust of Harmar; most vowed never to fight alongside him again.[71]
During Harmar's Campaign, Scott was serving in the state legislature
in Richmond, Virginia.[74] He was once again appointed to the committee on
privileges and election.[74] He also served on the committee on propositions
and grievances and several special committees.[74] On December 30,
1790, Virginia Governor Beverley Randolph, possibly acting on a
recommendation from Washington, appointed Scott brigadier general in the
Virginia militia and gave him command of the entire District of Kentucky.[75] His
primary responsibility was overseeing a line of 18 outposts along the Ohio
River.[76] In January 1791, President Washington accepted U.S. Senator John
Brown's suggestion to appoint a Kentucky Board of War, composed of Brown,
Scott, Isaac Shelby, Harry Innes, and Benjamin Logan.[75][77] The committee was
empowered to call out local militia to act in conjunction with federal troops
against the Indians.[78] They recommended assembling an army of volunteers
to locate and destroy Indian settlements north of the Ohio River.[77] Later that
month, Washington approved a plan to invade the Indians' homelands via a
raid from Fort Washington (near present-day Cincinnati, Ohio).[79] Most
Kentuckians were displeased with Washington's choice of Arthur St. Clair, by
then suffering from gout and unable to mount his own horse unassisted, as
overall commander of the invasion.[77] Scott was chosen to serve under St. Clair
as commander of the 1,000 militiamen who took part in the invasion, about
one-third of the total force.[79]
The Blackberry Campaign[edit]
Washington ordered Scott to conduct a series of preliminary raids in mid-1791
that would keep the enemy occupied while St. Clair assembled the primary
invasion force.[80] Both Isaac Shelby and Benjamin Logan had hoped to lead the
campaign, and neither would accept a lesser position.[81] Shelby nevertheless
supported the campaign, while Logan actively opposed it.[81] Scott issued a call
for volunteers to assemble at Frankfort, Kentucky, on May 15, 1791, to carry
out these raids.[80] Kentuckians responded favorably to the idea of an all-militia
campaign, and 852 men volunteered for service, although Scott was only
authorized to take 750; Senator John Brown was among the volunteers.[81] After
a brief delay to learn the fate of a failed diplomatic mission to the Miami tribes
in the Northwest Territory, Scott's men departed from Fort Washington on May
24.[82] The militiamen crossed the Ohio toward a clutch of
Miami, Kickapoo, Wea, and Potawatomi settlements near the location of
present-day Lafayette, Indiana.[81][83] For eight days, they crossed rugged
terrain and were bedraggled by frequent rainstorms.[83] The harsh conditions
spoiled the militia's supplies, and they resorted to gathering the blackberries
that were growing in the area; for this reason, the expedition earned the
nickname the "Blackberry Campaign".[83]
As Scott's men reached an open prairie near the Wea settlement
of Ouiatenon on June 1, they were discovered by an enemy scout and hurried
to attack the villages before the residents could react.[83] When the main force
reached the villages, they found the residents hurriedly fleeing across
the Wabash River in canoes.[84] Aided by cover fire from a Kickapoo village on
the other side of the river, they were able to escape before Scott's men could
attack.[84] The river was too wide to ford at Scott's location, so he sent a
detachment under James Wilkinson in one direction and a detachment under
Thomas Barbee in the other to find a place to ford the river.[84] Wilkinson did
not find a suitable location, but located and killed a small band of Indians
before returning.[84] Barbee located a crossing and conducted a brief raid
against the Indians on the other side before returning to Scott.[84] The next
morning, Scott's main force burned the nearby villages and crops, while a
detachment under Wilkinson set out for the settlement of Kethtippecannunk. [77]
[84] The inhabitants of this village had fled across Eel Creek, and after a brief
and ineffective firefight, Wilkinson's men burned the city and returned to Scott.
[84] In his official report, Scott noted that many of Kethtippecannunk's residents
were French and speculated that it was connected to, perhaps dependent upon,
the French settlement of Detroit.[85]
Low on supplies, Scott and his men ended their campaign.[86] On the return
trip, two men drowned in the White River; these were the only deaths among
Scott's men.[87] Five others were wounded but survived.[87] In total, they had
killed 38 Indians and taken 57 more prisoner.[86] Scott sent 12 men ahead with
the official report for Arthur St. Clair's review; the rest of the men arrived at
Fort Steuben (present-day Clarksville, Indiana) on June 15.[87] The next day,
they recrossed the Ohio River and received their discharge papers at Louisville,
Kentucky.[88]
St. Clair expedition[edit]
Scott's Wabash Campaign was well-received both in Kentucky and by the
Washington administration.[86] On June 24, 1791, Arthur St. Clair encouraged
the Board of War to organize a second expedition into the Wabash region and
to remove their outposts along the Ohio River to free up manpower and
finances as a prelude to his larger invasion.[89] Scott questioned the wisdom of
removing the outposts and convinced his fellow members of the Board of War
to retain one at Big Bone Lick and one guarding an ironworks at the mouth of
the Kentucky River.[88][89] His instincts later proved to be right; a month later,
Indian raiders tried to deny the frontier settlers access to salt by capturing Big
Bone Lick, but they were repelled by the militia stationed at the outpost there.
[89] Scott also did not believe that 500 men, St. Clair's requested number for the
second Wabash expedition, was sufficient for an effective operation.[89]
 Arthur St. Clair led a failed expedition against the Northwest Indians in late 1791.

In July, Scott gave permission to Bourbon County resident John Edwards to lead
300 men against a band of Indians suspected of stealing horses on the
Kentucky side of the Ohio River.[88] Although Edwards' expedition almost
reached the Sandusky River, they found only deserted villages.[90] Unknown to
the volunteers, they narrowly missed being ambushed by the Indians in the
area.[90] Many of the men who accompanied Edwards accused him of
cowardice.[89] Due to illness, Scott was unable to lead the expedition St. Clair
requested; instead, he chose his friend, James Wilkinson, to lead it.
[88] Wilkinson's men departed on August 1.[90] During their expedition, they
destroyed the evacuated village of Kikiah (also called Kenapocomoco), the
rebuilt settlement of Ouiatenon, a small Kickapoo village, and several other
small settlements in the area.[90] Returning by the same route that Scott's
previous expedition had, Wilkinson's men were back in Kentucky by August 21.
[90] Scott's and Wilkinson's campaigns took a heavy toll on the Northwest
Indians.[90] In particular, the Weas and Kickapoos signed a peace treaty with
the United States the following year, and the Kickapoos migrated farther
into Illinois and Missouri.[90]
St. Clair continued his preparations for invading the northwest despite the fact
that, by now, he admitted he was unfit for combat due to his ill health.[91] Like
Harmar, he was also unpopular in Kentucky, and Scott had to conduct a draft to
raise the militiamen needed for St. Clair's expedition.[92] He and most other
officers in Kentucky claimed they were too ill to lead the men; most actually
feared losing the respect of Kentuckians through their association with St. Clair.
[91] Colonel William Oldham was the highest-ranking soldier willing to lead the
Kentuckians.[91]
St. Clair's party left Fort Washington on October 1.[92] On November 3, he
ordered his men to make camp on a small tributary of the Wabash River,
mistakenly believing they were camping on the St. Marys River.[92] His intent
was for the men to construct some protective works the next day, but before
sunrise, a combined group of Miami and Canadians attacked the party, routing
them and capturing part of their artillery and most of their supplies.[92] Of St.
Clair's force of 1,400 men, 600 were killed and 300 captured during the attack.
[91] The Kentucky militiamen scattered during the attack, and their leader,
Colonel Oldham, was killed.[91] Nevertheless, they and most citizens in
Kentucky blamed St. Clair for the entire debacle.[91] St. Clair retreated to Fort
Washington, and on November 24, Scott joined him there with 200 mounted
volunteers in case the Indians decided to pursue him and invade Kentucky.
[93] When it became apparent that no Indian invasion was imminent, Scott's
men returned home.[94] As a result of St. Clair's campaign, tribes that had
previously been neutral in the conflict – including
the Delawares and Wyandots – allied with the Miami and Shawnee against the
frontiersmen.[94]
Service with the Legion of the United States [edit]
After St. Clair's Defeat, President Washington asked Congress to authorize the
formation of the Legion of the United States, a 5,000-man force to fight the
Indians in the Northwest.[95] Congress approved the proposal in March 1792,
and Scott learned from a friend in Philadelphia that he was being considered as
commander of the Legion.[95]Ultimately Washington concluded that he was "of
inadequate abilities"; his known vice of drinking too much alcohol also
concerned Washington.[95] Instead, Washington chose "Mad" Anthony Wayne to
command the Legion.[92] On June 4, 1792 – just days after Kentucky officially
gained statehood – the Kentucky General Assembly commissioned Scott and
Benjamin Logan as major generals in the state militia.[96] On June 25, Scott was
given command of the militia's 2nd Division, which was charged with operating
north of the Kentucky River; Logan's 1st Division operated south of the river.[97]
The new state legislature had also appointed a five-man committee to select a
city to be the new state capital.[98] Scott applied to have Petersburg, still a
fledgling settlement, designated as the capital.[62] Other localities – including
Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, and Boonesborough – also applied. Frankfort
was eventually chosen,[98] as Scott's failure to secure Petersburg's designation
as the state capital contributed more than anything else to the settlement's
failure to even become a viable city.[98] Scott's son, Charles, Jr., wrote to his
brother Daniel that their father was planning to run for Congress in 1792;
although Charles, Jr. expressed confidence that his father would be elected, his
campaign apparently never materialized or faltered shortly after it began.
[99] He was chosen as a presidential elector in 1793.[2]

"Mad" Anthony Wayne, commander of the Legion of the United States

Wayne originally intended to use Kentucky militiamen in preemptive strikes
against the Indians and to conduct the main invasion using only federal troops,
but by the time he moved to Fort Washington in mid-1793, he had assembled
fewer than 3,000 of the 5,000 troops he had anticipated.[100] He now requested
that Scott's and Logan's men join his main force.[101] Logan flatly refused to
cooperate with a federal officer, but Scott eventually agreed, and Wayne
commissioned him an officer in the federal army on July 1, 1793. [101] He and
Governor Isaac Shelby instituted a draft to raise the 1,500 troops he was to
command in Wayne's operation.[102] When he joined Wayne at Fort Jefferson on
October 21, 1793, he had only been able to raise 1,000 men.[103][104]
On November 4, Wayne ordered Scott's militiamen to destroy a nearby
Delaware village.[105] Still resentful and distrustful of federal officers and aware
that Wayne would not launch a major offensive so close to winter, the men
were not enthusiastic about the mission, which many of them considered
trivial.[105][106] That night, 501 of them deserted their camp, though Wayne
noted in his report that he believed Scott and his officers had done all they
could do to prevent the desertions.[106] Scott attempted to continue the mission
with his remaining men, but inclement weather prevented him from conducting
a major offensive.[106] Ultimately, the men were only able to disperse a small
hunting camp before continuing on to Fort Washington and mustering out on
November 10.[106] Wayne ordered Scott to return with a full quota of troops
after the winter.[105]
Tensions cooled between Wayne and the Kentuckians over the winter of 1793–
94.[107] Wayne noticed that, despite their obstinance, the Kentucky volunteers
appeared to be good soldiers.[107] The militiamen, after observing Wayne,
concluded that he – unlike Harmar and St. Clair – knew how to combat the
Indians.[107] Wayne augmented his popularity in Kentucky by building Fort
Recovery over the winter on the site of St. Clair's defeat.[108] The Indians'
victory over St. Clair had become a part of their lore and inspired them to
continue the fight against the western settlers; Wayne's construction of a fort
on this site was a blow to the Indian psyche, and his re-burial of some 600
skulls that the Indians had dug up and scattered across the area was popular
with Kentuckians, since many of their own were among the dead.[106] While
Scott came to respect Wayne personally, his friend, James Wilkinson, began an
anonymous campaign to tarnish Wayne's image, coveting command of the
Northwest expedition for himself.[109] Scott, on leave in Philadelphia at the time,
wrote to Secretary of War Henry Knox to defend Wayne's reputation, breaching
his friendship with Wilkinson.[109]
Scott returned to Kentucky from Philadelphia in June 1794, mustered 1,500
militiamen, and joined Wayne at Fort Greeneville on July 27.[110] He and Thomas
Barbee led this force in support of Wayne's 1,000 regular troops.[92] The
combined force marched quickly and captured the recently evacuated Indian
town of Grand Glaize on August 8.[111] Here, Wayne ordered the construction
of Fort Defiance, which took approximately a week.[111] Scott was responsible
for the naming of the fort; while observing its construction, he declared, "I defy
the English, Indians, and all the devils in hell to take it."[111] Based upon
intelligence provided by Scott's mounted volunteers, Wayne ordered his force
to march toward Fort Miami on August 14, anticipating a battle with a
combined British and Indian force of 2,400 there.[112] About 8:45 a.m. on
August 20, Major William Price's brigade of volunteers engaged the Indian force
near Fort Miami, beginning the Battle of Fallen Timbers.[112] The well-positioned
Indian force turned back Price's men, but Wayne ordered his regulars to
conduct a vigorous bayonet charge, which routed the Indians.[113] Major William
Campbell, the British commander of Fort Miami, refused to open the fort to his
Indian allies, and Wayne's force won a decisive victory.[113]
Following the battle, Wayne ordered Scott's volunteers to conduct numerous
raids within a fifty-mile radius of their position.[114] Due to a lack of pack horses
in Wayne's force, the mounted volunteers were also employed transporting
supplies between forts throughout September 1794.[115] They eventually grew
weary of garrison duty and complained that the use of their personal horses to
transport goods had injured the animals.[115] Many threatened to mutiny if not
discharged.[114] On October 13, 1794, Wayne finally ordered them home.[116] In
a commendation of Wayne issued on December 4, 1794, the U.S. House of
Representatives specifically thanked Scott and his men for their service at the
Battle of Fallen Timbers.[117] The Treaty of Greenville formally ended the war in
mid-1795.[114]

Later political career[edit]

In 1795, Scott traveled to Philadelphia to help clarify service records that would
determine the final pay of the men who served under him before returning to
his farm in Kentucky.[118]He continued to serve, nominally, as major general of
the 2nd militia division of the state militia until 1799.[119] Celebrations of Scott's
military heroism were held all over Kentucky, sparking his interest in a political
career.[119] With the advent of the First Party System, he declared himself
a Democratic-Republican, as did most Kentuckians.[119] In 1800, he was chosen
as a presidential elector for his district by a vote of 75 to 44 over Caleb
Wallace.[119] Scott and his fellow electors all cast their votes for the ticket
of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.[119]
In 1803, Secretary of War Henry Dearborn appointed Scott and Governor James
Garrard to evaluate sites in Kentucky on which to construct a replacement for
Fort Washington.[120]Garrard, a central Kentucky native, insisted that the fort
should be built at Frankfort.[120] Scott disagreed, contending that the fort
should not be in the state's interior and that the hilly terrain around Frankfort
was unsuitable for constructing a fort.[120] He waited several days for an
appointment with Garrard to try and reach an agreement, but when he was
unable to secure one, he asked Dearborn for permission to act alone.
[120] Dearborn granted the request and accepted Scott's recommendation of a
site in Newport, Kentucky.[120] In 1804, Scott was again chosen a presidential
elector with minimal opposition.[121]
In 1797, Scott's son Daniel, who had settled in Virginia, died.[122] In late 1799 or
early 1800, his last son, Charles, Jr., also died.[122] His daughter Martha married
future U.S. Senator George M. Bibb in 1799 and moved to Daviess County.
[121] Daughter Mary had married and left the farm prior to Scott's return from
military service, and youngest daughter Nancy left the farm near the turn of
the 19th century, although she never married.[123] After the death of his wife on
October 6, 1804, he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law, John and Mary
Postlethwait, in Lexington.[121][123] He sold his farm in Woodford County in
October 1805.[123]
As tensions between the U.S. and Great Britain escalated in the wake of the
June 22, 1807, Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, Scott applied to Governor
Christopher Greenup to raise a mounted militia unit in anticipation of an
outbreak of hostilities.[124] Although Greenup granted the requested
authorization, Scott remarried on July 25, 1807, and never assembled the
militia unit.[124] His second wife, Judith Cary (Bell) Gist, was the 57-year-old
widow of Colonel Nathaniel Gist, who had been a prisoner of war with Scott
during the Revolutionary War.[124] After their marriage, they moved to
Canewood, Gist's family's plantation in Bourbon and Clark counties.[21]
Gubernatorial election of 1808[edit]

Green Clay, one of Scott's opponents in the 1808 gubernatorial election

As the celebrations in honor of Scott's military career continued across

Kentucky, he began to consider the possibility of running for governor in 1808.
[125] By mid-1806, state senator Thomas Posey and Lexington lawyer Thomas
Todd had already declared their candidacies.[125] Posey had been chosen
speaker pro tem of the state Senate and, with the death of Lieutenant
Governor John Caldwell in 1804, had assumed the role of acting lieutenant
governor and presiding officer in the Senate.[125] He subsequently lost his
senatorial re-election bid, but continued to act as lieutenant governor and
preside over the Senate.[125] His opponents claimed that since he was no longer
a member of the Senate, he was not qualified to act as lieutenant governor;
additionally, they charged that he was sympathetic to the hated Federalist
Party, even though he self-identified as a Democratic-Republican.[125] Although
he was not successfully unseated as the Senate's presiding officer, the
controversy diminished his chances in the 1808 election.[125] In 1807, Todd
removed himself from contention as well, accepting Governor Greenup's
appointment to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.[125]
Posey's diminished candidacy and Todd's exit from the race left only one major
impediment to Scott's potential candidacy.[125] A movement began in Kentucky
to draft former Governor Isaac Shelby as a candidate for another term.
[125] Known as "Old King's Mountain" for his heroic role in the Revolutionary
War Battle of King's Mountain, Shelby could match Scott's military appeal, and
as a former delegate to Kentucky's statehood and constitutional conventions
and a former governor, his political experience far exceeded Scott's.
[124] Ultimately Shelby declined to run, and Scott officially declared his
candidacy on February 11, 1808.[126] John Allen had by then declared his
candidacy and Green Clay's announcement followed Scott's by about a month.
[126]Scott's campaign was managed by his stepson-in-law, Jesse Bledsoe, a law
professor at Transylvania University.[21][62] Bledsoe was among the most able
politicians in the state, though he preferred the role of "kingmaker" to that of
candidate.[127]
Allen and Clay, both lawyers by profession, were hurt by a general distrust of
lawyers by the Kentucky electorate.[128] Further, Allen had served as general
counsel for Aaron Burr, and several anonymous letters to the state's
newspapers accused him of being privy to Burr's alleged scheme to create an
independent state in the southwest.[128] Henry Clay was among those who
vigorously defended Allen from the charges.[128] Scott also frequently spoke in
highly complimentary terms of Allen.[62] As a legislator, Green Clay pushed for
measures favorable to debtors; he consequently enjoyed strong support from
settlers south of the Green River, many of whom were squatters and land
speculators who owed substantial debts to the state.[129] To counter Scott's
hero image, Clay supporters pointed to his service with George Rogers Clark in
a 1782 expedition against the Shawnee, but the impact of this line of
campaigning was minimal.[130] As the most senior Revolutionary War officer in
Kentucky, Scott became the recognized leader of the state's veterans' lobby.
[127]The Independence Day celebrations held around the state just before the
August 1 election provided a boost for his campaign.[131] On election day, he
garnered 22,050 votes, compared to 8,430 votes for Allen and 5,516 votes for
Clay.[132]
Governorship[edit]

A fall on the icy steps of the governor's mansion crippled Scott for life.

Among Scott's first acts as governor was appointing Jesse Bledsoe as Secretary
of State.[133] Bledsoe delivered Scott's first address to the legislature on
December 13, 1808.[134] Later that winter, Scott was injured when he slipped
on the icy steps of the governor's mansion; the injury left him confined to
crutches for the rest of his life and rendered him even more dependent on
Bledsoe to perform many of his official functions.[135] His physical condition
continued to worsen throughout his term as governor.[136]
In domestic matters, Scott advocated increased salaries for public officials,
economic development measures, and heavy punishments for persistent
criminals.[132] While he desired a tax code that would preclude the need for the
state to borrow money, he encouraged legislators to keep taxes as low as
possible.[135] He also urged them to convert the militia into a youth army.
[135] The General Assembly routinely ignored his calls for reform but did pass a
measure he advocated that allowed debtors a one-year stay on collection of
their debts if they provided both bond and security.[137]
Scott frequently clashed with the legislature, including once when the Senate
refused to confirm the appointment of Dr. Walter Brashear as lieutenant colonel
commandant of the state militia's second regiment.[138] The governor refused
to nominate anyone else for the position, saying that Brashear was the best
person for it, and he assumed the senators would not want to be sent a worse
nomination.[138] He employed his gubernatorial veto three times over the
course of his tenure, but all three were overridden by the legislature.
[139] Measures creating Harrison County and allowing squatters to purchase
occupied land on more favorable terms were both vetoed because Scott felt
that they had been passed too hastily to allow proper debate.[139] Scott also
vetoed the revocation of a pension granted to recently retired Kentucky Court
of Appeals justice George Muter, because he felt it undermined citizens'
confidence in the promises of their government.[135]
Throughout his term, Scott was dogged by rumors of heavy drinking and
frequent use of profanity.[132] On one occasion, an unnamed individual believed
his reputation had been injured by something Scott had said and challenged
him to a duel.[140] He ignored the challenge, after which the challenger
threatened to expose him as a coward.[140] Scott was supposed to have replied,
"Post and be damned; but if you do, you will only post yourself a damned liar,
and everybody else will say so."[140] On another occasion, after reviewing a
speech written for him by Bledsoe, the governor was said to have remarked,
"Well, Mr. Bledsoe, I know you think you are a damned sight smarter than I am,
and so you are in many respects; but this message as it is now, won't do at all;
I'll be damned if it will."[133] When Bledsoe asked what was wrong with the
speech, he reportedly replied, "Why, damn it to hell, why don't you put a good
solemn prayer at the end of it, and talk about Providence, and the protection of
Heaven, and all that?"[133] After the governor campaigned for Humphrey
Marshall's opponent in the 1809 legislative elections, Marshall published an
article in the Western World newspaper that accused him of appearing in front
of the court house drunk on election day.[141]
For most of Scott's tenure as governor, tensions between the U.S. and Great
Britain escalated.[142] Sentiment in favor of a U.S. declaration of war against the
British was particularly strong in Kentucky.[143] Most Kentuckians resented the
replacement of the Embargo Act of 1807 with the weaker Non-Intercourse Act
of 1809 and Macon's Bill Number 2.[143]Kentucky Senator Henry Clay became
the acknowledged leader of the war hawks in Congress.[143] During an address
to the General Assembly on December 4, 1810, Scott expressed little hope of
peacefully resolving U.S. grievances against Great Britain.[144] He reminded the
General Assembly that France had also violated the United States' maritime
rights and urged equal treatment of the two countries for their offenses.[132]
 William Henry Harrison, supreme commander of the Army of the Northwest

In September 1811, William Henry Harrison, then governor of Indiana Territory,

visited Kentucky and directed Colonel Samuel Wells to recruit Kentuckians for a
new federal regiment then being formed by the authority of Secretary of
War William Eustis.[145] Harrison had not applied to Scott for permission to
recruit in the state, and many Kentuckians – from Scott's political enemy,
Humphrey Marshall, to his trusted advisor, Jesse Bledsoe – perceived this as a
slight to the governor.[146] Ignoring Bledsoe's indignation, Scott refused to make
an issue of the faux pas and instead became one of the staunchest supporters
of Harrison's rising career.[146]
In November 1811, a messenger brought news to Kentucky of former Kentucky
Attorney General Joseph Hamilton Daveiss's death at the Battle of Tippecanoe,
amplifying Kentuckians' outcry for war with the British and Indians.[147] In
anticipation of a federal call for volunteers, Scott published messages in the
state's newspapers in February and April 1812 whipping up support for the
impending war effort.[148] By the end of July, the state's quota of 5,500
volunteers had been met.[149] On August 14, 1812, Scott greeted two regiments
of soldiers at the governor's mansion just prior to their muster at Georgetown.
[150] He hobbled among the soldiers with his crutch, then turned and hammered
it against the mansion's steps and was heard to mutter "If it hadn't been for
you, I could have gone with the boys myself."[151]
On August 25, 1812, Scott's last day in office, he appointed Harrison brevet
major general over the Kentucky militia.[152] The appointment was made on
advice from incoming Governor Isaac Shelby and Henry Clay.[152] The brevet
ensured that Harrison, and not James Winchester – who was unpopular in
Kentucky and with his own troops – would lead the state's military forces in the
war.[152] Biographer Harry M. Ward noted that Harrison's commission was
unconstitutional both because he was not a citizen of the state and because
the state militia's allotment of major generals had already been filled.
[153] Kentucky historian Lowell H. Harrison concurred that the commission was
"probably illegal", but further noted that it was "acclaimed across the state".
[152] The show of confidence from Scott and his aides influenced
President James Madison to appoint Harrison as supreme commander of
the Army of the Northwest.[153]
Death and legacy[edit]
Following his term as governor, Scott retired to his Canewood estate with his
wife and youngest step-daughter, Mary Cecil Gist.[154] Two of his stepdaughters
 had married during his term as governor.[154] In 1809, Anna Maria Gist married
Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart, who was killed in the River Raisin Massacre in
January 1813.[155] Eliza Violet Gist married Francis Preston Blair on July 21,
1812, just prior to the expiration of Scott's term as governor.[154] The governor
opined that Blair, who was slightly built, stoop-shouldered, and suffering
from tuberculosis, would leave Eliza a widow within six months.[154] Blair
survived the tuberculosis and went on to become a trusted advisor to
President Andrew Jackson.[154] He outlived Scott's prediction for him by more
than sixty years.[154]
By mid-1813, Scott's health had begun to fail rapidly.[156] He died on October
22, 1813, and was buried on the grounds of Canewood.[132] At the time of his
death, he was one of the last surviving generals of the Revolutionary War.
[34] His remains were re-interred at Frankfort Cemetery in 1854.[137] Scott
County, Kentucky, and Scott County, Indiana, are named in his honor, as are
the cities of Scottsville, Kentucky, and Scottsville, Virginia.[5]

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