Display Patriot - P-148424

John DINWIDDIE

SAR Patriot #: P-148424

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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Private

Birth:
Death: 10 Oct 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant / / VA

Additional References:

Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998

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Burial:

Tu-Endie-Wei (aka Battle Monument) State Park_(C-0371305)

Location:

Point Pleasant / Mason / WV / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1971000

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Photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
No Find-a-Grave record found - May 2021

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Marker GPS Coordinates: 38.92722222, -82.2594444

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Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn

Early in the spring of 1774, it was evident that the Indians were combining for aggressive action. It was decided that an army of two divisions should be organized as speedily as practicable, one to be commanded by General Lewis and the other by Lord Dunmore in person. General Lewis' army rendezvoused at Camp Union (Louisburg) about the 1st of September and was marched from there to the mouth of the Kanawha River in current day West Virginia, while Lord Dunmore was to go the northwest route over the Braddock Trail by way of Fort Pitt, thence down the Ohio River to meet with General Lewis at the mouth of the Kanawha.

The aggregate strength of the southern division under General Lewis was about eleven hundred and of the northern division under Lord Dunmore was about fifteen hundred. Lord Dunmore never arrived at the Kanawha River. On the morning of 10 October 1774 General Lewis' division found themselves confronted by an army of eight hundred to one thousand Indian braves of the Shawnee & Mingo tribes were commanded by their able leaders Cornstalk, Red Hawk, Blue Jacket and Elinipsico. Instead of a hard day's march, Lewis' army had a harder day fighting. 75 members of the Virginia Militia were killed and 140 wounded. Causalities of the Shawnee & Mingo tribes are unknown as they carried of their dead or buried them in shallow graves at hidden locations.

No official report of this battle was ever written, so far as can be learned. Apparently there are several good reasons for this omission. In the first place the time, place and circumstances were not favorable for preparing a formal official report. In the second place Lord Dunmore, the superior officer to whom General Lewis should have reported was in the field, but a few miles distant. General Lewis was expecting that the two divisions would be united in a few days. In the third place the strained relations between the Colonies and the mother country were such and recent action of Lord Dunmore were so ambiguous that General Lewis was probably not inclined to report to him at all.

References: Virgil A Lewis, West Virginia State Historian & Archivist, says in his History of West Virginia, published in 1889, on page 133. Lewis, Virgil A., History of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune, 1909. Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998.

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