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some spies if your force will permit I shall return to this place by Tuesday next when you will have your reports here to reach me. With every confidence in your activity and diligence and in- telligence, and that you will inflict due chastisement on all who dare violate a stipulation of a treaty which should be held sacred. I remain Yr. mo. obt st.
T G WESTERN Supdt. Ind. Affrs.
To Capt Ben Sloat Council Ground Tehuacana Creek [Endorsed] Copy
Sup. Ind. Affairs to letter dated Ft Milam 27 July 1844 Bcnj. Sloat Agent Council Ground Tehuacana Ck.
No. 53 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO SAM HOUSTON Fort Milam-Falls of Brazos July 27-1844- Dear General Information of rather unpleasant character since my express to you yesterday. Before day-break this morning Mr. Barnard reached this place from Suttons place some 10 miles above the trading house, he states that Cavanaugh, a white man who has been to the Comanche with Jim Shaw arrived there Express from Jose Ma- ria's village with news that the Waco meditate an attack upon this frontier in conjunction the Tawakoni, Tawehash etc. on or about the full of the present moon, this information was brought to the above named village by a Caddo who was only 8 days ago in the Waco Village, he says he saw them harvest their corn, shell it, pack it in sacks and send it off with the women and children to parts unknown and further more it seems the Caddo relates that the Warriors had actually started on their expedition before he l~ft that he rode a fat mule which enabled him by riding incessantly to make the distance in so short a time. Jack Harry the Delaware was there (at Jose Marias
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