Volume 11 , Issue 40

Virginians Killed at Battle of Point Pleasant

Careful estimates made from the most authentic documentary evidence extant, place the number killed at eighty-one. The following is a list of names of persons known to have been among the slain.

Field Officers: Colonel Charles Lewis, commanding the Augusta county regiment; Colonel John Field, of the Culpeper county minute men; Captain John Murray, of the Botetout county regiment; Captain Robert McClennahan, of the Botetourt county regiment; Captain Samuel Wilson, of the Augusta county regiment; Captain Charles Ward, of the Augusta county regiment.

Subaltern Officers: Lieutenant Hugh Allen, of the Augusta county regiment; Mark Williams, Roger Topp and Joseph Hughey, of Captain Evan Shelby's company of the Fincastle county battalion; James Mooney and Hickman of Captain George Mathews' company of the Augusta county regiment; Samuel Croley, organization to which he belonged not known.

Burial of the Dead: The day after the Battle, the bodies of the men slain therein, together with those who died of wounds that night, were buried in different places. The following officers: colonel Charles Lewis, Colonel John Field, Captain John Murray, CAptain Robert McClennahan; Captain Samuel Wilso, Lieutenant Hugh Allen, John Frogg and George Cameron -- Being laid to rest inside of the Magazine directly on the upper point of land. At the confluence of the rivers - now Tu-Endi-wei Park. All were interred without the pomp of war, but that day the cheeks of many a hardy Virginia - West Virginia mountaineer were bedewed with tears.
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