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No. 154 LETTER FROM J. W. THROCKMORTON TO H. WASHINGTON
Executive Department Austin July 26th 1867
Col H Washington,
Agent Coushatta Indians Smithfield, Texas, Dear Sir:
Your favor of 17th with enclosures, received this morning. Your action in the premises is approved. I hope you will succeed in having the Indians who murdered the Coushatta woman punished, either our Courts, or through the military authorities. I notice that Mr. Rowe says in his communication to you that he had informed me of the murder, etc. I presume his letter on the subject has miscarried or been delayed, as it has not yet reached me. I am very Respectfully Your ob't Sv't Gov of Texas [Gov. J . w. THROCKMORTON] [J. W. Throckmorton, Executive Record Book, Number 49, Page 155.J
No. 155 LETTER FROM J. W. THROCKMORTON TO E. M. STANTON Executive Department Texas.
Austin, Aug. 5th 1867.
Hon E. M. Stanton Secretary of War
Washington City, D. C.
Sir:
Herewith I have the honor to enclose for your information a tabular statement of the Casualties occurring on the frontiers of this State since the close of the War. You will observe that 162 versons ha.ve. been Killed: ~3 car-
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