Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-05

women and children were made
prisoners.
In the time of the slaughter, Il
negro woman at the spring mean
the house where it happened, killed
her own child for fear i should fall
into the hands Of the indians, or
hinder her from making her escape.
Mrs. Glendennin, whose husband
was among the slain, aud herself
with her children prisoners, boldly
charged the Indians with peridy
and cowardice, in taking advantage
of the mask of friendship to COM
NIT murder. One of the Indians
exasperated at ber boldness, and
stung, no doubt, at the justice Of
her charge against them, brandish-
ed his tomahawk over her head,
and dashed her husbands scalp in
her face. In defiance Of all his
threats, the heroine still reiterated
the charges of perGdy and cOwar-
dice against the Indians.
On the next day, after marching
about ten miles, while passin z
through a thicket, the Indians
forming front and rear guard,
Mrs. Glendennin gave her infant
to a neighbOr woman, stepped into
the bushes without being perceived
by the Indians, and made her es-
cape. The cries Of the child made
the Indians inquire for the mother.
She was not to be found. "Well,r =
says one Of them, 81 will soon bring
the COW to her calf )" and taking
1 the child by the feet, beat its brains
out against tree. Mrs. Glendennin
returned home in the course Of the
succeeding night, and covered the
corpse Of her husband with fence
rails. Having performed this plOus
Office for her murdered husband,
she chose, as a place Of safety, a
cornfeld, where, as she related,
her heroic resolution was succeeded
by a paroxysm of grief and de
spondency, during which she i'm
agined she saw Il man with the as
! pect of a murderer standing within
a few steps of her. Tue reader OF
this narrative, instead Of regard
ing this fit Of dependency as a
feminine weakness on the part OF
this daughter of ailliction, will
commisserate her situation Of un-
PARALLEL destitutiOn and distress.
| Alone, in the dead of night, the
survivor of all the infant settle
ments of that district, while all her
relatives and neighbors of both
settlements were either prisoners
or lying dead, dlshonOred by ghast-
| ly wounds Of the tOmahaUk and
scalping knife of the savages, her
husband and her children amongst
the slain.
1t was some days before force
could be collected in the eastern
part of BOtetOurt and the adjoining
country for the purpose Of burying
the dead.
OF the events of this war, on the
southwestern frontier Of Virginia,
and in the country of Holstein, the
then western part Of North Caro-
lima, the author has not been in-
formed, farther than that, on the
part of the Indians, it was carried
on with the greatest activity, and
its course marked with many deeds
of the most atrocious cruelty, m
til late in the year 1904, when a
period was put to this anguinary
contest, by treaty made with
the Indian nations by Sir William
Johnston, at the German Flats.
The perfdy and cruelties prac-
ticed by the Indians during the
war of 1868 and 1864, occasioned
the revolving and sanguinary
character of the Indian wars
which took place afterwards. The
Indians had resolved on the total
determination of all the settlers Of
our north and southwestern front
iers, and being no longer under
the control of their former allies,
the French, they were at full liber.
ty to exercise all their native
ferocity, and riot in the indulgence
OF their innate thirst for blood.
Next follows, in DR.. Dodlrige's
work, his account Of Dunmores
war, which the author Of this his
tory has transferred to the chapter
under that head in the preceding
pages. The chapter which fol-
lows relates to an event which oc-
CARED during that war;.
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