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and soldiers, many of them severely, who afterwards died of 

 their wounds. The loss of the enemy was never certainly 

 known, but thirty-three of their dead bodies were found on or 

 near the battle ground, and it was not doubted that the enemy 

 had thrown many of his dead into the rivers, on both of which 

 his warriors were posted, as we have seen. From the char- 

 acter of our troops, being all sharpshooters, and backwoods- 

 men, it is probable that the loss, in killed and wounded was 

 about equal, on both sides. The numbers of the two armies, 

 were probably about the same, judging from their extended 

 line of battle, and the constant firing all day, along ;hat line^ 

 from river to river. The next day after the battle, Lewis for- 

 tified his encampment, (he should have done so before the ac- 

 tion, as soon as he arrived there,) with logs on the outside of 

 it, and by digging an entrenchment. Here, after burying his 

 dead, he left his wounded men under a strong guard, and 

 marched up the Ohio river, in obedience to his recent order 

 from Governor Dunmore. Moving forward, through the dense 

 forest along the Ohio bottoms, we leave him and his gallant 

 band of patriotic western Virginians, until we have found the 

 Ear! of Dunmore, whom we left at Williamsburgh, the then 

 seat of the colonial grovernment. 



The governor, after despatching Lewis into Botetourte and 

 Augusta counties to raise two regiments of riflemen; himself 

 raised about one thousand troops among the old Virginians, 

 east of the Blue ridge, for this expedition. With these men, 

 he marched, by the old route in which Washington and Brad- 

 dock had passed the Alleghanies. He marched up the Poto- 

 mac to Cumberland, thence across, the remaining mountains, 

 to Fort Pitt. Here, procuring boats, he descended the Ohio 

 river to Wheeling, where he rested sometime, that is, several 

 days, and concluded, to change his whole plan. Instead of 

 meeting Lewis, at Point Pleasant, he determined to descend 

 the Ohio to the mouth of the Hockhocking, ascend that stream 

 to its rapids, and then strike off, westwardly, and reach the ob- 

 ject of his ultimate destination, which was the Shawneetown, 

 at the southern end of Pickawav Plains. In accordance with 



