 However by July, Brock was desperate for volunteer troops, who at that point were not coming forward from among the white population, causing him to reconsider the offer.He set in motion the very plan that Pierpoint had suggested a month before.In August 1812, Captain Robert Runchey, a tavern owner in Lincoln and formerly an officer in the 2nd Flank Company of the 1st Lincoln Regiment of Militia, was assigned to form the militia corps that Pierpoint had proposed.