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No. 185 LETTER FROM H. R. RUNNELS TO JOHN B. FLOYD Executive Office
Austin Aug 12th 1858
Sir
I enclose to you a slip from the Dallas Herald, a newspaper published in this state, containing the letter of a Mr Love and the same alluded to in Capt Fords report, in regard to the in- tended movements of the Indians I have to communicate that there are allmost daily accounts reaching here of the theft of the Indians, who come in in small parties and from the vast and uninhabited regions which they traverse, allmost invariably elude all pursuit. I have but to re- affirm the opinion which I have heretofore expressed as to the only effectual mode of stopping these depredations, and that is by a well organised expedition against them in their own strong- hold, and a strict police over those under government protection who act in conjunction with them, and who are the receivers of the stolen property from citizens of Texas, Hoping to hear very soon of definite action by the govern- ment in regard to the matter I am sir verry respectfully Your obt servt H. R. RUNNELS Hon John. B. Floyd Sect War
[Endorsed:] August 12th 1858 Letter to the Hon Sec of War Washington D. C. Recorded page 155.
No. 186 LETTER FROM D. E. TWIGGS TO L. THOMAS
Head Quarters, Department of Texas. San Antonio, August 24th 1858.
Sir:
The enclosed paragraph from the papers of this place is the only information I have of a recent attack on some drivers on their way from this place to El Paso. Fort Davis is one hundred
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