And Boone did.
For some reason, however, Daniel's desire to march with the army was denied.

Perhaps it was because just such a man as he--and, indeed, there was no other--was needed to guard the settlement.

Presently he was put in command of Moore's Fort in Clinch Valley, and his "diligence" received official approbation.

A little later the inhabitants of the valley sent out a petition to have Boone made a "captain" and given supreme command of the lower forts.

The settlers demanded Boone's promotion for their own security.
"The land it is good, it is just to our mind, Each will have his part if his Lordship be kind, The Ohio once ours, we'll live at our ease, With a bottle and glass to drink when we please." So sang the army poet, thus giving voice, as bards should ever do, to the theme nearest the hearts of his hearers--in this case, Land! Presumably his ditty was composed on the eve of the march from Lewisburg, for it is found in a soldier's diary.
On the evening of October 9,1774, Andrew Lewis with his force of eleven hundred frontiersmen was encamped on Point Pleasant at the junction of the Great Kanawha with the Ohio.