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Anxious to Join the War Militia was often thought of as unreliable and only interested in going home once they reported. Governors were reluctant to call out the militia to support the war and the federal government was loath to pay the cost of equipping units that would only serve for one to three months. Brig. Gen. Daniel Davis of Genesee County New York was anxious to get into the war and frequently called up his entire brigade without state authority. The last time he marched is unit to Ft. Erie during the campaign of 1814. Davis would be killed on a sortie from that fort on September 17th.
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