Here is another, from almost 10 years ago......Jan of 2016..........so u do not have to sort through over 55,000 posts.

Draper 5YY:56-56(3)

Terre Haute, Ind. Oct. 31, 1883
Mr. Lyman Draper,
Madison Wis.
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 27 of Sept was duly received. I take pleasure in answering it. I see their has been some mistake – Ruddell was not at Fort Harrison at the time of the battle – I heard Ruddell say that Tecumseh was at the battle of Fort Harrison. Ruddell was sent by government to preach to the Indians in the north of Indiana & Ohio. Ruddell was taken prisoner at Nine years of age and lived with the Indians until he was married and had two children. He was made a chief of, and was acquainted with Tecumseh. Stephen Ruddell was not at Fort Harrison at the time of the battle. Stephen knew Tecumseh and I heard him say Tecumseh was at Fort Harrison at the time of the battle. I believed it for Stephen Ruddell was raised from the time he was nine years old with the Indians, became a chief had a squaw and two papooses and when he got home his father gave him some education and he became a Baptist minister and the Government sent him to preach in the north of Ohio and Indiana to the Indians. His father was rich and Stephen had a good farm and several slaves to work it. He was considered a religious, a trustful, and trustworthy man. I have spent some time in tring to find a survivor of the battle of Fort Harrison but have been unable to do so. But my best information is that there is now no person alive who took part in that engagement.
Abraham Ruddell a brother of Stephen was a soldier in the war of 1812 and served under Gen. Harrison and acted as a spy, and was at Winchester’s defeat and when our forces surrendered, the Indians by an robbury and mal treat any the prisoners. Abram Ruddell told me that the officers applied to Gen. Proctor who was then in command for protection, but he saw that he could not help them, they then sent for Tecumseh and he stopped the Indians at once. Tecumseh said to proctor “it is a shame you allow your prisoners so badly treated” and appears to be very angry – I heard about the same statements from one Kenater, who served with Ruddell and was a prisoner with him.
Abraham Ruddell was a man of affluence and shuned any in that community and was regarded as a man of truth. If there is any further information that I can give you in this regard I will gladly do so. With Kindest regards.
I am Very Truly Yours.

Geo. G. Boord.