IN THE CURRENT OF THE 

 REVOLUTION 



CHAPTER I 



THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT KANAWHA ; AND 

 LOGAN'S SPEECH, 1774 



MEANWHILE Lord Dunmore, having gar- 

 risoned the frontier forts, three of which were 

 put under the orders of Daniel Boone, was making 

 ready a formidable army with which to overwhelm 

 the hostile Indians. It was to be raised, and to 

 march, in two wings or divisions, each fifteen hun- 

 dred strong, which were to join at the mouth of 

 the Great Kanawha. One wing, the right or north- 

 ernmost, was to be commanded by the earl in per- 

 son; while the other, composed exclusively of fron- 

 tiersmen living among the mountains west and 

 southwest of the Blue Ridge, was intrusted to Gen- 

 eral Andrew Lewis. Lewis was a stalwart back- 

 woods soldier, belonging to a family of famous 

 frontier fighters, but though a sternly just and fear- 

 less man, 1 he does not appear to have had more 

 than average qualifications to act as a commander 

 of border troops when pitted against Indians. 



The backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies felt that 

 the quarrel was their own ; in their hearts the desire 



1 Stewart's Narrative. 

 (265) L VOL. V. 



