TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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W. W. Reynolds Capt Frontier Regiment Regimental Quartermaster
Examined and approved James M Norris Col Commanding Texas Frontier Regt. [Endorsed] Estimate of Funds for Pay etc
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Frontier Regiment From July 1st 1862
To
Deer 31st 1862
$210,000.00
No. 46 LETIER FROM 0. LoVING TO F. R. LUBBOCK [1862]
Gov F. R. Lubbock
Dr Sir I am an old frontiers man, and have time and again taken a hand in the pursuit of Indians depredating on the frontier For the last year I have been absent trading to Pikes Peak with cattle and passing to that country I ascertained that the general rendezvous of the Indians who depredate upon the frontier of Texas is upon the Arkansas River say 350 or 400 miles from here, As I returned home some two months since I saw a large number of Comanche with some four or five thousand horses that have been stolen from Texas These In- dians are fed by the U. S. Posts at Fort Adams on the Arkansas and Fort Bent, and the Indians are paid by the U. S. Troops occupying these parts for all the scalps taken from Texas. They are perfectly friendly with the U. S. Troops an in fact with all except Texans I am satisfied that we will not have any rest from these Indians until we go to their general rendezvous and destroy them, I am satisfied that with a few companies of men great good can be done by an expedition against them. I had a talk with Col Norris of the Texas Frontier Regiment a few days since. I want his cooperation in the expedition, Now I propose this to raist? say three or four companies of men for the expedition to act in conjunction with Col Norris or under his command if that be more desirable in an expediticn, I pro- pose not only to break up and destroy this encampment of In- dians, but I propose also to take the U. S. Posts in the neigh-
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