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Fortenbury there are many rumors about what they done in Denton and Wise Again on last Sabbath another Company of about twenty five came in North of Gainesville on Red River and Collected a lot of horses five men pursued them and the Indians charged them and Killed a Mr. Pace broke the arm of another and shot him in the hip he will probably recover speared a third man above the eye and slightly wounded the fourth in the thigh and killed the horse under him he then mounted the dead mans horse and they then dispersed the Indians and recaptured the horses if they killed an Indian they do not know it but think they must have done them some harm Gainesville is now the frontier people are every day leaving the county and gloom broods over us all I believe all would leave if we had any place to go to but our all is here there was a small Company of about fifteen men organized here and instiad of reporting to Col Starr as they were required to do they went out to look for Indians and captured some stolen horses. For violation of orders they were reported to head quarters and Lt Winchester come here and took Judge Weaver to Fort Richardson and we have not yet learned his fate but it has very much alarmed the citizens the Indians come in it is 75 miles to Fort Richardson before a dispatch can be sent there to get assistance Cooperation or in- structions from head quarters we are all scalped the horses are already taken out of the Country and there is now but little left but scalps unless they pass us by and go farther south where there are horses you must see that our situation is on awful one and it gets worse every month this County must entirely give way if the citizens of Gainesville begin to leave the destruction_ of the County is accomplished what shall we do you and Gen Reynolds are our only hope I am with due Regard Yours etc J.E. WHEELER County Judge Cooke Co. [Endorsed] Indians No. 16
No. 192 County Judge's Office, Cameron County Brownsville, Texas, February 6. 1869.
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