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on the 15th I found the trail of 6 indians on foot & on horse back on the 16th I trailed them untill I found that they had come in the Settlement. I found they had too much the start of me & I turned for the mountains on the head of Leon and there on the 17th I met with Lieuteniant Burleson & then I came back to Pecan on the 19th & on the 20th Mr. Joseph Harris & Wash Feasell was out hunting & saw some indians Mr Morriss says there were 8 horses. Mr. Feasell says he did not see but 4 or 5 horses on the 20th we started after them and kept on the trail untili the 26th which brought us to the elm fork of the Brasas 45 or 50 miles N av NW of Fort Chadburne, our horses & provi- sions giving out. I turned back & reach San Saba on this the 3d day of Jany 1859. I will also add that on the Clear Fork of the Brasos & Elm Fork the indians have been encamped for sometime & have had a considerable quantity of horses G. B. COWAN 2nd Lieutenant.
No. 213 LETTER FROM N. D. MCMILLAN TO JOHN WILLIAMS [JANUARY 8, 1859]
To Capt. John Williams On the morning of the 16th of December 1858. news reached my camp on the Colorado river below the mouth of Pecan Bayou that a squad of indians had stolen a number of horses from the Dawson Settlement in Lampasas County on the night precedeing. By noon the same day with a part of my command I reached the trail & followed it untill Sunday morning during which time the trail was leading through the outskirts of the settlement. When finding that the indians were travelling faster than we were I divided my company into two parties giving command of one to Wm. P. Pearce, who returned to Bennets Creek in Lam- pasas County. Myself with the other consisting of 7 men includ- ing myself proceeding to the cow house in Hamilton county On the same evening my party came in sight of the indians. Eight in number after a hot pursuit of ¾ of a mile overtook them & in a running fight killed two & wounded three others. I had the good
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