him as he walked along." At the
commencement of the revolutionary war Washington considered him the
foremost military man in America, and the one most worthy of the post of
commander-in-chief of the American army. And it was to the country
beyond the mountains that Washington looked as a place of refuge, in
case he should be overpowered in the struggle, and there, defended by
mountains and mountaineers, he hoped to defy the enemy. The statue of
General Andrew Lewis is one of those to be placed on the monument in the
capitol square, in Richmond.[589:A]

Dunmore remaining after the departure of Lewis, concluded a treaty with
the Indians. Upon this occasion Cornstalk, in a long speech, charged the
whites with having provoked the war, his tones of thunder resounding
over a camp of twelve acres. The truth is that during the years which
elapsed between Bouquet's treaty of 1764 and open war in 1774, a period
of nominal peace was one of frequent actual collision and hostilities,
and more lives were sacrificed on the frontier by the murderous Indians
than during the whole of the year 1774, including the battle of Point
Pleasant.[589:B]

FOOTNOTES:

[582:A] Or "River of the Woods," as the word signifies, or New River, as
it was also sometimes called.

[582:B] Styled by Stuart, in his "Memoir of Indian Wars," Fort Savannah.

[583:A] Memoir of Battle of Point Pleasant, by Samuel L. Campbell, M.D.

[584:A] Dr. Campbell's Memoir of the Battle of Point Pleasant.

[586:A] There may be mentioned General Isaac Shelby, a native of
Maryland, who distinguished himself at King's Mountain, and was
subsequently the first governor of Kentucky; General William Campbell,
the hero of King's Mountain, and Colonel John Campbell, who
distinguished himself at Long Island; General Evan Shelby, who became an
eminent citizen of Tennessee; Colonel William Fleming, a revolutionary
patriot; Colonel John Stewart, of Greenbrier; Colonel William McKee, of
Kentucky; Colonel John Steele, governor of the Mississippi Territory,
and General George Matthews, who distinguished himself at Brandywine,
Germantown, and Guilford, and was governor of Georgia, and United States
senator from that State.--_Howe's Hist. Collections of Va._, 363.

[587:A] Dr. Campbell's Memoir of Battle of Point Pleasant.

[589:A] Thomas Lewis, eldest son of John Lewis, owing to a defective
vision, was not actively engaged in the Indian wars. He was a man of
learning, and representa