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that Lewis behaved well, and that he behaved badly; 

 that the whites lost 140 men, and that they lost 215, 

 etc., etc. The conflict of evidence as to the dates 

 and accessory details of Logan's speech is no greater 

 than it is as to the dates and accessory details of the 

 murder by Greathouse, or as to all the preliminaries 

 of the main battle of the campaign. Coming from 

 backwoods sources, it is inevitable that we should 

 have confusion on points of detail; but as to the 

 main question there seems almost as little reason for 

 doubting the authenticity of Logan's speech, as for 

 doubting the reality of the battle of the Great 

 Kanawha. 



END OP VOLUME FIVE 



