29. Do., Letter of Nov. 17th.

30.  The frontier expression for covering one’s self behind a tree-trunk.

31.  A small stream running into the Kanawha near its mouth.  De Haas, p. 151.

32.  Campbell MSS.  Preston’s, letter.

33.  “Am.  Archives.”  Letter of November 4, 1774.

34.  Campbell MSS.  Preston’s letter.

35.  Stewart’s Narrative.

36.  Led by Isaac Shelby, James Stewart, and George Matthews.

37.  Campbell MSS.  Preston’s letter.

38.  “Am.  Archives” Letter of November 4, 1774.  It is doubtful if Logan was in this fight; the story about Cornstalk killing one of his men who flinched may or may not be true.

39.  Hale, 199, the plunder was afterwards sold at auction for L74 4s. 6d.

40.  These are the numbers given by Stewart, but the accounts vary greatly.  Monette ("Valley of the Mississippi,”) says 87 killed and 141 wounded.  The letters written at the time evidently take no account of any but the badly wounded.  Shelby thus makes the killed 55, and the wounded (including the mortally hurt) 68.  Another account ("Am.  Archives,” p. 1017) says 40 men killed and 96 wounded, 20 odd of whom were since dead, whilst a foot-note to this letter enumerates 53 dead outright, and 87 wounded, “some of whom have since died.”  It is evidently impossible that the slightly wounded are included in these lists; and in all probability Stewart’s account is correct, as he was an eye-witness and participant.

41.  Twenty-one were scalped on the field; the bodies of 12 more were afterwards found behind logs or in holes where they had been lain, and 8 eventually died of their wounds. (See “American Archives,” Smith, Hale, De Haas, etc.) Smith, who wrote from the Indian side, makes their loss only 28; but this apparently does not include the loss of the western Indians, the allies of the Shawnees, Mingos, and Delawares.

42. Smyth, the Englishman, accuses Lewis of cowardice, an accusation which deserves no more attention than do the similar accusations of treachery brought against Dunmore.  Brantz Mayer speaks in very hyperbolic terms of the “relentless Lewis,” and the “great slaughter” of the Indians.

43.  Wayne won an equally decisive victory, but he outnumbered his foes three to one.  Bouquet, who was almost beaten, and was saved by the provincial rangers, was greatly the superior in force, and suffered four times the loss he inflicted.  In both cases, especially that of Bouquet, the account of the victor must be received with caution where it deals with the force and loss of the vanquished.  In the same way Shelby and the other reporters of the Kanawha fight stated that the Indians lost more heavily than the whites.