TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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my company is ready at all times to do service when ever you call on them and the most of them have been by turns daily engaged on their own expense we take it by turns Eight men at a time scouts one week and as they ccme in eight more goes out and if they could be paid as others are paid for their services I would guarantee to protect the whole Cowhouse Coun- try with my company which would only require the service of eight men daily I am apprised that you are constantly pressed with business and it would be condecinding to answer my scribling but it would be great satisfaction to me and my company to hear coun- sel from you on the subjects aforesaid I am an old Texian I was commissioned by you as military Capt in Augustine County something like Thirty years ago and has supported your Elec- tion in every thing I could since that time please answer this as soon as possible and you will confer a favor on your much de- voted friend Yours respectfully etc. ALEXANDER WALTERS Gatesville Texas [Endorsed] J. W. Embree Gatesville Coryell Feby 12 1860 giving news of Indian depredations Alexander Walters. No. 5 1ETrER FROM J. S. O'BRYAN TO SAM HOUSTON Searsville McLennan Co Texas Gov. Sam Houston Feb 14 1860 My Dear Sir As there may be ma[n]y different reports reach you in regard to the recent Indian mur- dering and stealing I have thought it proper to give you a true statement :-As I have some little acquaintance with you. Some five or six days since, there has been three persons killed in Bosque County about twenty miles from me and on the 11th but 3 days since two old gentlemen (Baptist Preachers) wear [were] on their way from Hamilton County to my neighborhood to hold a mzeting as th•~y wear approaching the timber of Mid- db Bosque but a short ways from seve[r]al houses they came to
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