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''On the tenth-Marched at S on
our way to Wills Greek, sixteen
milss from Cressop's the road this
day very pleasant by the water side.
At IL the general passed by. the
drums beating the sGrenadier
March. At we arrived at Wills
creek and encamped to the westward
of the tort on a hill. and found here
six companies of Sir Peter Halket's
regiment, nine companies of vir.
ginia and a Maryland company.
"On the twentieth-Eighty wag-
ons from Pennsylvania arrived
to assist the expedition. and eleven
wagons from Philadelphia with
presents for the officers of the
army.
On the twenty-fourth the force
consisted OF two regiments OF TOO
men each, nine companies from
Virginia of atty men each, three in.
dependent companies of 100 men
each, one Maryland company Of
fifty men, sixty men OF the train
and thirty seamen and company
from North Carolina of 100 men ar
rived on the thirtieth. The march
began on the fhirtieth and followed
a newly opened track which was the
path that Nermacolin, Delaware
Indian, had marked cut or blazed
for the Ohio company some years
before. and which very little Wild
ened, had served the transient pur-
poses of that association and of
Wsshington's party in 1854.
The line between Maryland and
Pennsylvania was crossed on the
twenty first of June, near what Is
now Petersburg, in Somerset coun-
ty, and was the first time that Brad.
dock or any Of his army on this ex-
petition had entered Pennsylvania.
BY the twenty-sIxth the advance
under Braddock reached Rock Fort,
four miles beyond the Great Mead
ows, which, when reached by the
rear under Dunbar, was occupied by
him at the time of the battle, and is
forty miles distant from that field.
A council of war was held on the
third of July and it was resolved
not to await the arrival of Dunbar,
who was so far in the rear, but TO
push forward with part Of the
force. On the ninth the battle was
fought and in the evening the retreat
began, continuing all night and the
next day until 10 p. m. Dunbar's
camp was reached on the eleventh
when all being in confusion, and
some OF his men having gone off, the
retreat was resumed on the fifteenth,
after the destruction OF stores that
was impossible to remove. The
army reached the camp near the
Great Meadows that night, where
the General died. Colonel Dunbar,
who was now in full command, con-
tinuing the retreat in great disorder,
returned to Wills creek or Fort
Cumberland the twentieth OF July.
Having traced the course of the
army from Alexandra TO Dunbar's
camp, and the return of the remnant
to Fort Cumberland, it is necessary
to go back and examine the progress
and purpose of the road, being cut
from Shippensburg west, to the juno.
tion with the road over which Brad.
dock marched. The purpose is stated
by Braddock himselfin letter dated
June 80, from the camp at the last
crossing of the Youghiogheny and
addressed to Governor Morris: "As
/ shall very soon be in want of sup
plies from your province, i must beg
you would order all possible dis
patch to be made use of in finishing
the new road as far as the crow foot
Of the Youghiogheny and immedi-
ately afterward send forward to me
such articles of provisions as shall
be in your power. Some of the In.
habitants near Fort Cumberland
having been killed and taken pris.
oners by struggling parties of Indians
the people Of these parts have been
kept from coming to camp. My chief
Independence must therefore be upon
your province, where the road will
be secure from insults or attacks of
that kind.n
Work was commenced on the road
May /, and on the second OF June It
was reported that 1t was opened as
far as Sugar Cabins Fort LittletoD)
seven miles from Anthony Thomp-
sons aud twenty-seven from Ship
pensburg.
The route was past Culberton's
Row, McDowelI's Mill, Anthony
Thompson's (Which was at Cowan's
Gap), Burnt Cabins to Littleton
(Col. r, 8, 1862. After detention
of week in crossing Sidellng Hill,
the road bad reached the ford ofthe
Juniata, twenty-eigbt miles from
Anthony Thompsonis, the twelfth OF
June, and was SO we'll made that
William Allison and William Max.
well reported TO Richard Peters
"We think it would be no hardship
for any reasonable team and wagon