The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-20
ECHOES.
EAYETTE JOURNAL.

the monument erected by the state
and federal governments at the
mouth of the Great Kanawha river
concentrating the Battle of Point
Pleasant under the noted Indian
Chief, cornstalk, and the virginian
army under General Andrew Lewis
lS5 years ago-the FIRST battle of the
reyolution-was unveiled Saturday
with fitting ceremonies. 1t is esti-
mated that more than &C, 900 people
gathered for the occasion, all of
them enthusiastic in celebrating the
anniversary of the great victory for
the Virginia troops, who later be-
came the flower ofthe Colonial army.
Governor Glasscock with his staff,
state and federal officers joined the
thousands of other patriotic West
virginians in the celebration.
The unwilling ceremonies were in
charge of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons of West Virginia.
The monument to commemorate
the Battle of Point Pleasant is To-
Gated in the center of Tu-Endie-wei
Park, two and half acres of ground
at the mouth of the Great Kanawha
river. 1t is built of Balforn granite,
the statute thereon being a heroic
figure of westerly granite. The shaft
is an obelisk with base twenty-Eour
feet square, and eighty-two feet in
height. The statuteis that of a col
onial soldier of the primitive Virgin
ia style, dressed in hunting shirt,
coon skin cap, leather breeches and
long rife. The tablet in bronze and
placed on the face of the four sides
of the shaft provides for the present
and future generations a history in
tabloid of the great struggle between
the forces of savagery and barbarism
against civilization.
The tablet on the east side of the
shaft contains in raised letters brief
story of the battle so tersely written
and SO comprehensively set forth to
amaze the reader with its brevity;
the west side of the shaft holds tab
lets presenting a typical battle scene
between Indians and the frontiers
men, and bronze coats of arms ofthe
United States and West Virginia.
On the north and south sides of the
shaft the tablets present the names
of all the known participants in the
battle on the part of the Virginia
troops.
The monument has been erected
at total cost of $4,000, and is
probably the largest of its kind west
of the Alleghanies.
Tu-Endie-wei park is the site of
the fort occupied by the troops un-
der command of General Andrew
Lewis, and it was from this point
that detachment of the virginians
u..der cover of the night stole out
and turned the flank of the Indians,
giving the impression that reinforce
ments under Governor Dunmore had
arrived, thus creating confusion
among the Indians, which is believed
to have turned the tide of battle in
favor OF the whites.
Tu-Endie-wei park is the resting
place of the remains of General An
drew Lewis, the commandant of the
white troops, of Ann Bailey, the he
rome of Indian warfare and the ear
ly settlements, as well as the bones
of hundreds of Others who fell in the
conflict. The park was purchased by
the Point Pleasant Battle Monument
Association and is preserved for his
tory through the aid of liberal APP
preparations by the State of West
Virginia, the Congress of the United
States, as well as liberal donations
from the people,