LORD DUNMORe's WAR. 1 1 7 



made. Prisoners were exchanged, and Dunmore returned to 

 Virginia by the route in which he came. 



We now return to Lewis and his army, marching up the 

 Ohio, on its southern shore, to the mouth of the Hockhocliing. 

 Having reached this point, Dunmore's flotilla of boats, perogues 

 and canoes, ferried Lewis and his troops across the Ohio 

 river, and having halted here long enough to take a hearty 

 meal, out of the provisions, here left by Dunmore, they rushed 

 forward up the Hockhocking, along in Dunmore's trail, and 

 they were rapidly approaching Camp Charlotte. During this 

 rapid movement, of Lewis, he was met by messenger after 

 messenger, from the Governor, ordering him to retreat, not to 

 march forward. To these messages, neither Lewis nor any 

 of his men, paid any attention. In those days "Virginia nev- 

 er tired." In addition to the exasperation which the loss of so 

 many friends, in the late bloody action at the Point, had natu- 

 rally produced in their minds ; not a few of them had lost 

 friends and relatives, who had been recently murdered by the 

 Indians, at different places on the frontiers. They therefore 

 pressed forward, determined on the destruction of the Picka- 

 way towns, along the Scioto river; since, now, it was so 

 entirely within their power. Lewis had now approached 

 Camp Charlotte within a few miles, (on Thomas J. Winship's 

 land,) where Dunmore and his principal officers, met Lewis, at 

 the head of his troops. Here Dunmore in the presence of his 

 officers, ordered Lewis and his army to retreat, and return to 

 Point Pleasant. To this order, delivered in person, by the 

 Governor, Lewis and his exasperated army, most reluctantly 

 rendered obedience. Having sent Lewis back, Dunmore, tar- 

 ried here, until his final arrangements were concluded with 

 the Indians. What all those v,ere, we neither know, nor 

 have the means of certainly knowing, only by after events. 



That Earl Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, 

 rendered himself excessively unpopular, by ordering Lewis 

 back, is certain, and it hastened, his final abandonment of the 

 colony, when he fled to a British fleet for protection, from his 

 not very loving people. Whether his object, Mhile at Camp 



