it may now escape my memory. So far as I can recollect I will give you.

Governor Dunmore, a Scotchman, was the commander-inchief. My father, General Andrew Lewis, had the command of all the troops from this quarter. Col. Charles Lewis commanded the Augusta troops; Col. William Fleming the Botetourt troops;• Col. William Christian the Montgomery troops; all of which were to rendezvous at what was then called the Big Savannah, at or near the place where Lewisburg now stands [in] Greenbrier. My father and three of my brothers were in the action. John Lewis, his eldest son, commanded a company; Samuel and Thomas were privates. While encamped at the Savannah, General Lewis received orders from Dunmore to meet him a Point

Pleasant on the 2nd day of October. Col. Christian's troops had not arrived at the place of rendezvous early enough for my father to comply with his orders. He therefore was compelled to leave Christian's command, with orders for Christian to march on as soon as possible to Point Pleasant, as soon as his troops arrived. General Lewis arrived at Point Pleasant as well as I recollect, on the 2nd day of October, at which place Dunmore never appeared. My father's force was then from 1000 to 1200

men.

The spies were out from the 2nd of October and made no discovery of the enemy. On the morning of the 10th day of October, before day, two men-a Mr. Robinson and another whose name I have forgotten,-started from the encampment so as to get far enough from the camp before it was daylight, to travel off the bells of the packhorses and bullocks, to hunt. Those two men fell in with the Indians up the Ohio. One of them was killed; the other made his escape into camp. General Lewis ordered out his brother, Col. Charles Lewis, with three hundred men, expecting as the spies had made no discovery of the approach of the Indians, that it was a small party, as small parties had been frequently seen watching the movements of the army, from the time it marched from the Savannah. Col. Christian with his command arrived at the camp Point Pleasant on the night of the same day of the action. Col. Charles Lewis had but just passed the out-guard when [he met] the Indians and about sun-rise the action commenced and was one constant peal of firing until about eleven o'clock in the day, when the Indians began to give way. Their retreat was not more than three miles, when night ended the conflict. They were obliged to keep it up until night to get their wounded off. The number of Indians found dead on the battle-ground was between twenty and thirty. They were discovered throwing their dead into the Ohio all the

day. Col. Charles Lewis was wounded early in the action, but did not let his wound be known until he got his line of battle extended from the bank of the Ohio to Crooked creek, a branch of Kanawha. He then asked one of his soldiers to let him lean on him to the camp, and died about twelve o'clock. He had been a very fortunate Indian hunter and was much lamented.

Whether the killed of the Indians were buried or not I cannot say. Col. John Stewart, late of Greenbrier, who commanded a company, and was in the action, wrote a narrative of the expedition, the best which I have seen. I think I had it, but cannot lay my hands on it. In his narrative, as well as every other account, every fifth man in the army was killed or wounded, Col. Charles Lewis killed, Col. William Fleming wounded severely, Capt. Robert McClanahan killed, Capt. Thomas Buford do., John Fdo., Col. Fields do., Samuel Lewis wounded slightly. Gen. Lewis had to erect a fort immediately at the junction of the Ohio and Kanawha for the protection of the wounded, the command of which was given to Capt. Arbuckle with his company.

All this time nothing was heard from Dunmore. So soon as the wounded were thus protected, General Lewis crossed the Ohio and marched for the Scioto, where the Cornstalk lived, who was the king of the Shawnees. On Thursday the governor sent several expresses to General Lewis to return. All the army almost had lost relations,--the General a favorite brother. They could not be stopped. After the battle the Indians immediately ran to the Governor. After two or three expresses to stop the army, the governor came himself with two or three Indians with him. General Lewis had to double and tripple the guard over his marquee, to prevent the men from killing the governor and the Indians. The whole force of the Indians was formed on the bank of the Scioto, to give battle if the army could not be stopt. I do not know of any of the chiefs besides the Cornstalk, but the Blue Jacket, a Shawnee chief, who was known to be at the governor's camp on the 9th of October, and in the battle on the 10th. On the day of battle, Dunmore and a Col. O'Connelly were walking together, afterwards a noted tory. The governor observed to him that Lewis had hot work about that time of day. He evidently intended General Lewis' army to be cut off and if you could see Col. Stewart's narrative it would convince you and every other man that the battle at Point Pleasant was the first blood shed in the revolutionary war, and that it was the old Scotch villain's intention to cut off Lewis' army.

Old Col. Shelby and his son, the late governor of Kentucky, were in the battle, but I know nothing, as I never heard that Shelby was sent to outflank the enemy. He was a fine officer, whatever

he was told to do he would execute. The distance from the battle to Dunmore's camp probably ten or twelve miles. General Lewis was never ordered to cross the river, nor was there any treaty made until the spring after the battle. General Lewis held

a treaty with them, in which they were bound to keep hostages of their chiefs at the fort Point Pleasant, when the Cornstalk in his capacity as a hostage was inhumanly butchered. I have heard my father often speak of his being the most dignified looking man, particularly in council, he ever saw. I am getting rusty in what passed sixty-six years ago.

Respectfully your ob't serv't,

A. LEWIS.

S. L. CAMPBELL, Esq., M. D.

P. S.-SIR, I could not make a letter fully answer your request. You ask when did General Lewis receive orders to cross the river? He received no orders from the governor after he left the encampment in Greenbrier. So soon as a fort was erected for the protection of the wounded, he crossed the river and marched for the Scioto, where the Shawnees then lived. You ask where the governor's head-quarters were on the day of battle. They were supposed to be ten or twelve miles distant. General Lewis never did arrive at the Governor's head-quarters. There was no treaty made until the spring after the battle when General Lewis held a treaty with the Indians that composed the six nations, Shawnees, Delawares, Mingoes and others. In the treaty made by General Lewis with those nations, they were compelled to keep of their chiefs so many hostages at the fort Point Pleasant, and the Cornstalk their king, while a hostage at the fort, was inhumanly butchered. The fort at first was created merely for the protection of the wounded, but by orders of the State it was thought proper to continue or keep it up for the protection of the frontiers. I cannot say how long it was kept up. I was at Point Pleasant in the fall of 1784. There was but little or no sign of the fort then to be seen.

Yours,

ANDREW LEWIS.

NOTE. It may be proper to add here that "Col. Stuart's Narrative, mentioned in the above letter, is in the library of our Virginia Historical Society, and has been published by the Society in the only pamphlet it has ever issued.

GENERAL HULL'S MILITARY AND CIVIL LIFE.*

We have read this work with lively interest, and regard it as a very valuable addition to the honest history of our country. It consists of two parts, by two, or perhaps we should say, by three different hands. The first part, relating chiefly to the military services of General Hull in our revolutionary war, it appears, was written mainly by himself, "for the gratification of his children and grand-children," and was prepared for the press by his daughter, who has discharged this duty to the memory of her father, with equal piety and judgment. It contains a series of pleasing sketches of many of the most striking incidents in the campaigns of Washington in the Northern and Middle States, in which the writer, it seems, was actually engaged, in various capacities, as Captain, Major and Colonel-first at the siege of Boston, where he made his military debut, and attracted the notice of the Commander-in-Chief-then (after an interval of honorable service with Gates, in his campaign against Burgoyne,) with his old Commander again, in the memorable battles of the White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Stony Point-gaining fresh laurels in all-and subsequently at Morrissania, where he reached the acme of his military character in a gallant and successful enterprise planned and executed by himself; winning the applause of Washington, in general orders, and the thanks of Congress, in solemn resolution; which, in those days, was the very crown of fame.

We cannot, of course, in this short notice, follow our leader through all these scenes; but we must say that his accounts of them have all the freshness and spirit of personal narrative, and

*"Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull, Prepared from his Manuscripts, by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell; together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit; by his Grandson, James Freeman Clarke. New York. D. Appleton & Co., and George Appleton. Philadelphia. 1848."

must be enjoyed by all who read them. We may add, that we are particularly pleased with that strain of natural and unobtrusive piety in the recognition of an overruling Providence, which seems to have formed a distinguished trait in the character of this gallant officer, (as it did in that of Washington ;) and which sheds so fine and mellow a light over his pages.

With this estimate of the work, we should like to give our readers some specimens of its contents; but we can afford room for a single sketch only, and even that we must abridge. We take it from the account of the "Capture of Stony Point," which we find in the 16th chapter; and which we must introduce with a few words.

We must ask our readers, then, to remember that the headquarters of General Washington are now (in July 1779,) at New Windsor, a short distance above West Point ;-that he has determined to attack the strong fortress of Stony Point, a little higher up the river, and to carry it, if possible, by assault; that he has selected General Wayne to execute his design; and given him a proper detachment of officers and men for the service; that General Wayne has, accordingly, formed his plan-announced it to his troops, whom he has divided into two columns-and issued his orders to them to march against the fort, on the night of the 15th of July, 1779; and they are on their way. We must remember further, while they are so, that "Stony Point," as Marshall writes, "is a commanding hill, projecting far into the Hudson, which washes three fourths of its base. The remaining fourth is in a great measure covered by a deep marsh, commencing near the river, on the upper side, and continuing into it below. Over this marsh there is only one crossing place; but at its junction with the river is a sandy beach, passable at low tide. On the summit of this hill was erected the fort, which was furnished with a sufficient number of heavy pieces of ordnance. Several breast works and strong batteries were advanced, in front of the principal works; and about half way down the hill, were two rows of abattis. The batteries commanded the beach and the crossing place of the marsh, and could rake and enfilade any column which