According to my research, the first name given to what is now Lewisburg, WV (the county seat) was Lewis Springs (1770 era), later changed to Old Fort Union, when the army from Botetourt, Augusta and Fincastle Counties was mustered there to fight the Indians, the site at that time part of Augusta Co. The name was later changed to Ft. Savannah. There was also Jarrett's Fort near Wolf Creek (later called Alderson). When the Indians attacked Ft. Donnally in 1778, and the news of the attack reached Col. John Stuart and Col. Lewis at Fort Savannah, they were able to gather 66 men to come to the aide of Ft. Donnally 10 miles away at Williamsburg. There is a very good and full description of this Indian battle in Hardesty's History of Greenbrier Co., first published in 1884, pages 169, 170 and 171. Dorothy Miller damiller@inetone.net