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  • Meigs native recounts controversy over battle [WV]

    01/21/2011 5:55:54 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 33 replies
    Parkersburg News and Sentinel ^ | January 21, 2011 | JESS MANCINI
    PARKERSBURG - A Meigs County native has written a book about the Battle of Point Pleasant and whether it was the first fought in the Revolutionary War. Charles S. Badgley of the Badgley Publishing Co., Canal Winchester, Ohio, says he often heard while growing up along the river in Meigs County that the battle was the first in the war, the basis of his most recent novel, "A Point of Controversy." Conventional wisdom was the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 were the first in the war of independence. "The controversy has been around a long time, it actually...