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Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian Wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: Boston, L. P. Crown & Co. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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fierce yells of the Indians.Gen Lewis acted and commanded with coolness anddecision. About 12 oclock, the fire of the red menbegan to slacken, and they fell back slowly. The Vir-ginians pressed them closely, but paid dearly for theirdaring, by being ambuscaded on several occasions.Gen. Lewis seeing the wily policy of Cornstalk, or-dered three companies commanded by Captains JohnStuart, George Mathews and Isaac Shelby, to movequietly beneath the banks of the Kanawha andCrooked Run, and so gain the enemys rear. Thismanoeuvre was successfully executed, and the Indiansfairly gave up the fight about 4 oclock in the day.The victory remained with the Virginians, but theydared not pursue. Cornstalks retreat was originaland masterly. He alternately led on his men andthen fell back in such a manner as to hold thewhites in check, and allow the Indians an opportunityto remove their dead. During the night they retiredbeyond the Ohio. The exact losses sustained by the conflicting par- Cornstalk. /
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mcollochs leap. 487 ties in this great battle have never been ascertained.The Indians are said to have lost in all, about 150men. The Provincials had about 200 of their armyeither killed or wounded. At least 100 of Gen.Lewiss men were absent, hunting, and knew nothingof the battle till evening. The Indian army wascomposed of the flower of the northern confederatedtribes. Their commander, Cornstalk, the Shawanee,had talents for the council or the field, equal, at least,to those of the famous Tecumseh. He possessed allthe elements of true greatness. The battle of PointPleasant will ever remain as an indication of thosemighty powers to which the wilderness had givenbirth. Peace was concluded soon after this greatconflict. The escape of Major Samuel MColloch from theIndians by leaping down a fearful precipice is one ofthe most startling exploits recorded in the history ofWestern Virginia. The MColloch family was oneof the earliest that settled on Short Creek. Samuelwas the second son. At

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