stopped by the
messengers of peace.--R. G. T.

[27] The two wings of the white army had about the same
strength--1100 under Dunmore, and 1150 (after leaving Point
Pleasant) under Lewis. The fighting quality was also the same,
in both. It is to be remembered that in the army under Dunmore
there was very little discontent at the issue, and at the close
of the campaign the men heartily thanked his lordship for his
valuable services in behalf of the people. They did this, too,
at a time when they knew from Eastern news received in camp,
that the Revolution was near at hand, and Dunmore must soon be
fighting against them in behalf of his royal master.--R. G. T.

[28] Dunmore had, through White Eyes, summoned the Shawnee
chiefs to treat with him at Fort Gower (not Gore), but they had
declined to come in. He then set out, October 11th, to waste
their towns on the Scioto, as previously noted, leaving the
fort in charge of Captain Kuykendall (not Froman), with whom
remained the disabled and the beeves. Each man on the
expedition carried flour for sixteen days. Just after the Point
Pleasant battle, Lewis had dispatched a messenger to his
lordship with news of the affair; Dunmore's messenger to Lewis,
with instructions to the latter to join him _en route_, crossed
Lewis's express on the way. The messenger from Lewis found that
his lordship had marched up the Big Hockhocking valley for the
Scioto, and hurried after him. The governor was overtaken at
the third camp out (west of the present Nelsonville, Athens
county, O.), and the good news caused great joy among the
soldiers. October 17th, Dunmore arrived at what he styled Camp
Charlotte (on the northern bank of Sippo Creek, Pickaway
county, eight miles east of Chillicothe, in view of Pickaway
Plains), and here the treaty of peace was concluded.--R. G. T.

[29] Doddridge's _Notes_ says that the camp was surrounded by
a breastwork of fallen trees, and an entrenchment, and
Roosevelt's _Winning of the West_ follows him. But Dr. Draper
was distinctly told (in 1846-51) by two survivors of the
campaign, Samuel Murphy and John Grim, that Withers's account
is correct; and this is confirmed in Whittlesey's _Fugitive
Essays_. In the center of the fi