ces.
A while after his murder, a small band of them made their appearance
near the fort at Point Pleasant; and Lieutenant Moore was dispatched
from the garrison, with some men, to drive them off. Upon his advance,
they commenced retreating; and the officer commanding the detachment,
fearing they would escape, ordered a quick pursuit. He did not proceed
far before he fell into an ambuscade. He and three of his men were
killed at the first [177] fire;--the rest of the party saved
themselves by a precipitate flight to the fort.

In the May following this transaction, a few Indians again came in
sight of the fort. But as the garrison had been very much reduced by
the removal of Captain Arbuckle's company, and the experience of the
last season had taught them prudence, Captain McKee forbore to detach
any of his men in pursuit of them. Disappointed, in their expectations
of enticing others to destruction, as they had Lieutenant Moore in the
winter, the Indians suddenly rose from their covert, and presented an
unbroken line, extending from the Ohio to the Kanawha river in front
of the fort. A demand for the surrender of the garrison, was then
made; and Captain McKee asked 'till the next morning to consider of
it. In the course of the night, the men were busily employed in
bringing water from the river, expecting that the Indians would
continue before the fort for some time.

In the morning, Captain McKee sent his answer by the grenadier squaw,
(sister to Cornstalk, and who, notwithstanding the murder of her
brother and nephew, was still attached to the whites, and was
remaining at the fort in the capacity of interpreter)[4] that he could
not comply with their demand.--The Indians immediately began the
attack, and for one week kept the garrison closely besieged. Finding
however, that they made no impression on the fort, they collected the
cattle about it and instead of returning towards their own country
with the plunder, proceeded up the Kanawha river towards the
Greenbrier settlement.

Believing their object to be the destruction of that settlement, and
knowing from their great force that they would certainly accomplish
it, if the inhabitants were unadvised of their approach, Captain McKee
despatched two men to Col. Andrew Donnelly's, (then the frontier
house,) with the intelligence. These men soon came in view of the
Indians; but finding that they were advancing in detached groups, and
dispersed in hunting parties, throu