Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-08-02
DunmOrc and His CampaIgn-LOgan
and his Speech.

At the annual meeting of the Frank
lin county Pioneer Association, on the
Sd inst, Joseph Sullivant read His
torical Sketch, in which he referred as
follows to Lord Dunmore's Campaign
against the Indians, and the celebrated
speech of Logan:
During the long contest between the
French and English for the possession
of the great western territory, the In
dams were the allies of France, and the
western frontiers and border settlements
of Pennsylvania and Virginia were
constantly harrassed and retarded by
marauding parties of the savages, who
marked their invasions with fire and
! blood.
These incursiOns were continued after
the fall of the French power, and the
insecurity of life was so great that the
colony of Virginia determined to strike
a vigorous blow and secure the peace
and quiet of their own settlements by
carrying the war into the heart of the
Indian country, which was the present
State of Ohio.
Accordingly an army of three thou
sand men raised and equipped to operate
against the Indian towns on the SciOtO.
The whole was under the command
of Lord DunmOre, the GOvernor-but
the army marched in two divisions,
with the intention of forming juno
ton before reaching the Indian towns.
The Indians with great sagacity, deter
mined to attack, and, if possible, defeat
these divisions separately. One divis-
ion of the Virginia army, commanded
by Col. Lewis, marched down the valley
of the Kanawha towards the Ohio river
The Indians, in pursuance of their
plan, went to meet these troops and
give battle before they crossed the Ohio
and penetrated further into their cOun-
try.
The troops having arrived at Point
Pleasant, (situated at the junction of
the Great Kanawha and the Ohio
were, with great fury, attacked by the
combined forces of Indians, about sum
rise on the morning of October 10th,
IVA; the battle ragged all day until night
put an end to the conflict.
Victory declared for the disciplined
forces of the white men-a victory gain
ed at a great loss of men and particularly
of the officers of Lewis army-and the
result was equally bloody and disastrous
to the Indians, who withdrew in sullen
disappointment from the battlefield
and retreated to their country.
On the part of the Indians the battle
of Point Pleasant was undoubtedly the
best planned and most Systematically
and hotly contested in the annals of In
dian warfare.
Col. Lewis continued his march, and
on the oath of October arrived at the
Pickaway plains and encamped on Con-
go creek.
In the meanwhile the other division
of the army, under Dunmore, arrived at
the Ohio river below Wheeling, and
building boats, descended the river to
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where they built Fort Cover; and from
thence marched up the river, through
the hilly and broken region of Athens,
Hooking and Fairfield counties, into
the present county of Picksway, and
established Camp Charlotte, OH SippO
creek, not far from the SciOtO, at or
near the present site of Westfall.-
The two armies under Lewis and
Dunmore here Joined, presenting force
too great for the Indians to contend
against with any hope of success. Ac-
cordingly negotiations were entered up
OH which soon resulted in a treaty of
peace.
IT was on this occasion that the cele-
brated Chief Logan, was said to have
been sent in and which was soon after
ward published in Thomas Jefferson's
"NOtes on Virginia."
In relation to the battle of the Point
and the subsequent treaty, had most