Twenty-One of Twenty-Three: The Road to Point Pleasant

n 1774, about 1,000 Virginia militiamen marched down the Kanawha River to Point Pleasant, where Cornstalk and the Shawnee attacked their camp. A claims ledger at the Library of Virginia pays men from 21 of the 23 companies at the battle. Which county were your ancestors from? The companion post, "Six Days' Provisions From Home," is over at the blog: https://appalachiangenealogy.substack... Note: Assistive technology is sometimes used to produce content for Appalachian Genealogy & History, including accessibility features and grammar editing. All research, writing, and editorial decisions are my own. Please do not feed my work, or anyone else's, into an AI system without permission. AI detectors are not reliable. For example, they flag work written centuries before the technology existed. Their accusations can seriously harm today's real working writers. Please treat their results with skepticism.