Thomas McClung was born in Rockbridge, Virginia in 1728, to immigrant parents John and Rebecca Stuart McClung. He married Nancy Black. They owned a farm on Muddy Creek Mountain in Greenbrier County and had six children. Thomas was a militia man in the Virginia Colonial Army. He was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774, and was buried on the battlefield. The United States Congress declared him an 'Unheralded Patriot' in 1991, and his name was entered into the Congressional Record. This book is a biography of his life, and contains dozens of source documents proving his heroism and death at the Battle of Point Pleasant.