The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-06-05
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Pit. Pleasant Correspondence
Letter from one OF the Doctors ~
Attendance at the State Medlcnl
Convention.

Letter from one OF the Doctors ~
Attendance at the Stale Meulcnl
Convention.
KLINE House, Pr. PLEASANT, VIVA. |
June ., 1875. (
Editors Of the InlcligCncer.
Point Pleasant is located in Mason
county, West Virginia, on the right bank
Of the Great Kanawha river, at the con-
nuence of that river and the Ohio.
Crooked Greek, skirtcd by high ground,
uuts into the Kanawha near its mouth.
Standing on this emincnce OF surprising
beauty, mentally and Involuntary, we
are borne back to the thrilling affair that
transpired here one hundred years ago.
Al that time this region was an unbrOken
wilderness. Here, on the 10th Of October,
IVA, the indomitable General Andrew
Lewis, at the head Of about eight hundred
"long knives" composed, rs DR., De llass
gives it, Of the very flower OF the Virginia
Valley, met in mortal combat with an In
dian army OF superior numbers, compOs,
ing the pick Of the northern Coniederated
tribes - Delawares, Mingos, lrOquois,
WyandOtts and Pawnces-Commanded
by the undetermined Corn Stalk and as:
sisted by Logan and other experienced
and able chiefs. Here the rifle and
tomahawk did their work with dreadful
certainty.
Here fell Colonies Lewis Fleming and
Fields, together with over two hundred oil
their comrades. Their remains lie be-
meath the soil Of the bloody field on
which they fell, over which the storms
and winds Of century have hOwled, aud
there let them rest until the morning OF
the resurrection.
"Duioc II deGOrml cIi pro Plirid mort
"IEcro turks no trCas1n here no envy swCls,
Here grow no damned pudgcs herGare 10 storms,
No noise, but Silence aud Eternal Sleep
The site of the breaslwork constructed
on that occasion from the Ohio to the
Kanawha by order Of General Lewis, was
pointed out to us, every trace OF which,
however, has been oblitcrated by the hand
OF time and Of civilization.
RThe outrageous monarch Of the forest,
The last OF the ancient landmarks, under
which Captain Lewis fell AMI against the
trunk of which he rcclined when dying,
nus Ions SInec 'T ; INV ,m , -" s% n.
=, G. Shaw, who has been resident Of
Point Pleasant for more than fifty years,
and who has seen and COnverscd with
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