Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . tism of her citizens is shown not only bythe number of volunteers sent to the field, but by the fact that atthe time the Adjutant General of the State received requests fromtwo thousand additional men for service; and he expressed theopinion that had the President called for ten thousand men fromthe State, that number would have gone promptly to the field. APPENDIXES I. Erection and Unveiling of the Battle Monument atPoint Pleasant, West Va. II: The Unveiling op the Statue op Hon. Francis HarrisonPierpont
Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . tism of her citizens is shown not only bythe number of volunteers sent to the field, but by the fact that atthe time the Adjutant General of the State received requests fromtwo thousand additional men for service; and he expressed theopinion that had the President called for ten thousand men fromthe State, that number would have gone promptly to the field. APPENDIXES I. Erection and Unveiling of the Battle Monument atPoint Pleasant, West Va. II: The Unveiling op the Statue op Hon. Francis HarrisonPierpont, in the Hall op Fame in the NationalCapitol. III. Erection and Unveiling op the Thomas Jonathan (Stone-wall) Jackson Monument in the State CapitolGrounds at Charleston, West Va. Prefatory Note. Since the last Biennial Report of this Department was made,three important events have transpired, each having an importantconnection with the history of West Virginia. So important arethese that a record of each should be preserved; hence the follow-ing appendixes are added to this Report:—. THE POINT PLEASANT BATTLE MONUMENT. It is twenty-two feet square at the base and eighty-two feet in height. The plinthsand obelisk are constructed of Balfour Granite from quarries near Salisbury, NorthCarolina ; the statue thereon being made of Westerly Granite from Rhode Island. APPENDIX I THE POINT PLEASANT BATTLE MONUMENT. ITS HIS-TORY—ERE CTION—UNVEILING. An Historic Review. The most important battle of all Colonial History, and the chiefevent of Lord Dunmores war, was fought on the soil of WestVirginia, on the site of the present town of Point Pleasant, Masoncounty, in 1774. The opposing forces were the Southern Wing ofLord Dunmores army,1 under General Andrew Lewis, on the one i In the year of 1774, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, was the royalGovernor of the Colony of Virginia; hence Dunmores War wasa designation applied to a series of hloody deeds hetween the Vir-ginians and the warrior
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