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No. 153 LETTER FROM THOMAS C. FROST TO H. R. RUNNELS Comanche County, Texas. Cora, January 8th A. D. 1858
To his Excellency H. R. Runnels
Sir,
In accordance with the conditions of my instructions as Lieutenant of the Coryell and Comanche county company, I herewith transmit my official report, which was due a few days since, but uncontrolable circumstances have prevented me from making it until the present. After the organization of the company I proceeded in a North western direction from this place up the Leon River on a regular scout, passed up and on the western side of the same for the dis- tance of fifteen miles, then North twenty miles, thence west twenty five miles striking Pecan bayou at the Northern extrem- ity of what is known as the Narrows a defile in the mountains, which has from all appearances recently been a general rendez- vous for thieving parties of Indians We examined this place carefully and with much toil and no direct success. I then passed down said stream some twenty miles, where an ex- press reached me from the Eastern portion of Comanche county, informing me that a band of Indians were in said county collect- ing all the most valuable horse property of the county, destroy- ing every kind of stock, murdering and capturing our citizens I hurried to the point, but found that Lieutenant Carmac, and several volunteer citizens were in pursuit of them too far distant for me to reach or overtake them. This party of Indians came down on the Eastern side of Leon river into Comanche County. Killed two of our most worthy citi- zens-wounded seriously and left as dead one valuable negro man and killed another-took a boy as prisoner-and have with them a Lady supposed to be taken from some family on the Leon river. They have destroyed property of great value and carried with them some hundred and fifty head of horses They passed out of this county into Bosque, thence through Erath into Palo Pinto in a direct course for the reservation, and
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