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copies of the communications of G. R. Paul Capt. 7th Inf. and Brevt. Maj. U. S. A dated Deer. 18th 1857 and of Maj. R. S. Neighbors dated Deer 9th. This Office is now in possession of information as late as the 2nd & 3rd of January 58. from the counties of Erath and Bosque, giving intelligence of new and additional depredations on that frontier, since the date of the communications you have been pleased to enclose, several citizens and one negro have been mur- dered a boy has been taken into captivity and a large amount of property stolen. The frontier citizens are under arms and the highest degree of excitement prevails. Of the one hundred men which have been called out by the State. There is one company of twenty located in that immediate vicinity, but owing to the vast District of country, exposed, and the smallness of their numbers, they have been found inadequate for its protection. I therefore beg leave respectfully to request, that you will cause such mounted force as you may be able to spare from other service, to be removed to that frontier, and if you have not such disposable force, that you will authorize the raising of two or three companies of mounted men by the authorities of the State for three or six months as circumstances may require, with as little delay as possible, in order to meet the existing emergency. I am Sir Very Respectfully Your obt. Servt. H. R. RUNNELS D. E. Twiggs Brvt. Maj. Genl. U.S.A. Commdg. Dept.
[Endorsed:] Jany 9th/58 Letter of the Governor to Genl Twiggs con- cerning Indian depredations. Recorded on Page 34
No. 155 LETTER FROM J. THOMPSON TO H. R. RUNNELS
Department of the Interior January 11th 1858
Sir
In persuance of the XIX article of the treaty between the U. States & the Choctaw & Chickasaw Indians concluded June 22d 1855, a copy of which is herewith enclosed, steps have been
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