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Who Is There To Mourn For Logan?

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Chief Logan was a war chief of the Mingo Indians. Despite holding this position, Logan urged his fellow natives not to attack whites settling in the Ohio Country. However, on May 3, 1774, a group of Virginia settlers murdered approximately one dozen Mingos; among them were Logan's mother and sister. Logan demanded that the Mingos and their allies, principally the Shawnee Indians, avenge the deaths of his loved ones. Chief Cornstalk, one of the main leaders of the Shawnees, still called for peace, but Logan ignored him. He conducted raids in western Pennsylvania, killing 13 whites in retaliation for the Mingos' deaths. His attacks resulted in Lord Dunmore

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Primus Pilus

A timely addition Spurius. I recently took the family camping in the Hocking Hills area which is quite near Logan. We all thoroughly enjoyed the area and its nice to get a bit a history to go along with the place name.

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Onasander

Harmon King, from Holiday's Cove, Virginia(Weirton, West Virginia, my town back home), lead the attack on the Mingo village near modern Toronto, Ohio.

 

I beleive Chief Logan was adventually killed by havinf his stomach cut with a piece of his intestine hanging out, then it was nailed to a tree and he was forced to run laps around it till he bled to death with his bowels ripped out. The town of Holiday Cove by all indications was built near a old mingo village (the Red Rider football stadium/steel mill now covers it) and possesed at most four forts, used during Indian sieges... one of wich was stone and used as a house or storehouse.... I can't remember which.

 

The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio has a room dedicated to Chief Logan at Fort Steuben, the fort lasted for 9 months as the first outpost of the US Government across the Ohio used in mapping out the seven ranges. I was priviledged enough to be allowed to dig there as a kid when the professor would have his summer classes.

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