Battle At Point Pleasant

Battle of point pleasant early morning of monday october 10 two soldiers left the lewis camp and proceeded up the ohio river in quest of deer.
Battle at point pleasant. This particular source does not indicate its specific sources of information but probably draws on thwaites and kellogg 1905 which provides extracts of rosters and correspondance contained in the draper manuscript collection. 79 90 hagy james william castle s woods and early russell county 1769 1799 lebanon va. Cornstalk didn t feel like giving up or selling their land at all. At the confluence of the two rivers general andrew lewis and a band of virginia frontiersmen defeated the allied shawnee delaware mingo ottawa and others under shawnee leader chief cornstalk.
The battle of point pleasant shawnee indians and virginians waged a thunderous and bloody battle at point pleasant during the conflict now known as lord dunmore s war. They did not receive any money even though their land was part of the barter. On these grounds at point pleasant was dedicated on saturday october 9th 1909 a granite shaft 84 feet high the tallest battle monument west of the alleghenies in the presence of more than twenty five thousand people and on october 10th following was held a great memorial service. He was commissioned captain of a company of militia on the waters of bluestone on the 3rd of april 1778.
Genealogical book co 1954 org. 165 168 crozier william armstrong virginia colonial militia 1631 1776 baltimore. The battle of point pleasant known as the battle of kanawha in some older accounts was the only major action of dunmore s war. The battle of point pleasant was started by cornstalk the chief of the shawnee tribe.
That victory which allowed the settlers to inhabit the. The army destined for this expedition was composed of volunteers and militia. James moore served as a private in the army of colonel andrew lewis marched to the mouth of the kanawha in the fall of 1774 and did his partin winning victory for the virginins at the battle of point pleasant. When they had gone about two miles they unexpectedly came upon a large indian rising encampment.
Macmillan 1949 section i chapter viii settlement crosses the mountains 1763 1776 pp. The following is drawn form soldiers at the battle of point pleasant a compilation of various lists and summaries of the participants at the battle of point pleasant. The battle of point pleasant an address bedford va. It was fought on october 10 1774 primarily between virginia militia and indians from the shawnee and mingo tribes.
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