Sorry, I sometimes forget that not everyone has a copy of the OR/SOR/ORN close at hand. Michael Buster wrote an afteraction report to Douglas Cooper the evening of the fight at Old Fort Wayne. The report is three pages in length in the SOR (vol. 3, pp. 65-67) but the key paragraph, as far as this thread is concerned, is as follows.

Buster describes his hastily-formed main line thusly: "I had under my command Captain Howell's Artillery, 146 infantry, Major Bryan's Battalion, Captain Minhart's squadron, about 80 men of Captain Scanland's squadron, about four companies of the old Choctaw regiment under Lieutenant-Colonel [S.N.] Folsom, and Major Livingston with some thirty men--number in all not more than 1,000." (p. 65)

Notice that each unit is paired with a commander except the "146 infantry," which leads me to believe that Buster was in personal command of that force.

A few paragraphs later Buster writes: "My little handful of infantry stood to the last, which I cannot say of the mounted men . . . ." (p. 66)

Notice the possessive wording and tone of that phrase.

To state the matter more formally (ahem), I think it may be accurate to state that Buster's Indian Battalion at Old Fort Wayne consisted of 146 Missouri infantrymen, plus or minus a few fellows.

Does this seem OK to you, Jim? Everybody?