Note 29 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 4)

Doddridge’s Notes says that the camp was surrounded by a breastwork of fallen trees, and an entrenchment, and Roosevelt’s Winning of the West follows him. But Dr. Draper was distinctly told (in 1846-51) by two survivors of the campaign, Samuel Murphy and John Grim, that Withers’s account is correct; and this is confirmed in Whittlesey’s Fugitive Essays. In the center of the field, a building of poles was erected, in which to hold the council; around this, the army encamped. A large white oak having been peeled, Dunmore wrote upon it in red chalk, “Camp Charlotte,” thus honoring the then English queen.––R. G. T.