WARRIORS (1774-1777)

HOW HE AND LOGAN STROVE AND DIED

At the last of September a Shawnee scout ran breathless into the Chief
Cornstalk town. He brought word that far across the Ohio River, in
north-western (now West) Virginia, he and his comrade had met a great
column of Long Knives, advancing over the mountains, as if to invade
the Indian country. His comrade had been killed. He himself had come
back, with the word.

Taking eleven hundred warriors--the pick of the Shawnees, the fighting
Delawares, the Wyandots, the Mingo Cayugas and the Mingo Senecas--Chief
Cornstalk marched rapidly down to give battle.

There really were two American columns, on their way to destroy the
Shawnee and Mingo towns in interior Ohio.

The Division of Northern and Western Virginia, twelve hundred men, had
mustered at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), in the territory
disputed by Virginia and Pennsylvania. It was under command of Lord
Dunmore himself, governor of Virginia for the king of England.

The Division of Southern and Eastern Virginia, fifteen hundred men, had
mustered at Lewisburg, West Virginia. It was under command of General
Andrew Lewis, a valiant soldier.

The Lord Dunmore division was to march south, the General Lewis
division was to march west; the two were to join forces at Point
Pleasant, where on the border of West Virginia the Big Kanawha River
empties into the noble Ohio.

Cornstalk moved fast. He had as aides Logan of the Cayugas, Chi-ya-wee
of the Wyandots, Scop-pa-thus of the Senecas, young Red Hawk of the
fighting Delawares, his own son El-li-nip-si-co--noted chiefs, all.
Among the Shawnee sub-chiefs was Puck-ee-shin-wah, father of a boy
named Tecumseh who grew to the greatness of Pontiac.

The General Lewis division had arrived first at the mouth of the Big
Kanawha. On the evening of October 9, from the opposite side of the
Ohio, Cornstalk's and Logan's men sighted them there, in camp.

Fresh news had come to Cornstalk. He had learned of the other
division, under Lord Dunmore. He had learned that the column across
from him was equal to his own force, and that another detachment of it
was hurrying on its trail.

In a council of the chiefs and principal warriors he proposed that he
go over, in person, and treat for peace. But all his men voted him
down.

"Very well," he replied. "If you are resolved to fight, then fight you
shall. We must not delay. It is likely that we shall have hard