316 having more time and leisure at present I have concluded to give you a more particular detail of facts in regard to the same, for some time past the Indians have been generally in our country killing cattle on the 6th inst they Stole Sixty three head of horses from Dr. C. Isbell on the 10th Twenty One of the citizens with five Soldiers and the guide from Fort Inge took the trail on Kinales Creek below the mountains after following them over a very rough mountainous Country we came up with them on the evening of the fourth day above the mountains between the head of the Sabinal and the Rio Frio we were about three quarters of a mile from them when they discovered us and we charged upon them at full Speed after a chace of four or five miles we succeeded in killing three of the Indians dead on the ground and wounded the other three very severely (there was only Six Indi- ans) In fact, I do not belive that any of those who got away could possibly live over their wounds we had, one man slightly wounded with an arrow in his knee lost one horse and had two others wounded One with a rifle Shot by the Indians Two of the horses rode by the Indians were killed dead by our boys We took Sixty head of horses all belonging to Dr. J. C. Isbell except Two together with all the Indians Arms and equippage &c We were on our way home through the Sabinal Pass when on the 16th inst we learned that a Party of Indians with some eight or ten horses had that day been Seen on the Sabinal leaving the horses taken by us from the Indians with the Soldiers and some of the citizen Some fifteen of us took the trail and after following the backwards and forwards over the mountains for nine days we Succeeded in finding them encamped on the head waters of the Seco they were camped in a deep Brushy hollow and we were Shown their whereabouts by the fireing of their guns at us after exchanging a few Shots with them we Succeeded in recov- ering Seven horses from them that being all they had at camp but could not over take the Indians as they ran away over the mountains where we could not follow with our horses we re- turned home having been out four days and captured Sixty Seven horses and killed three Indians &c while on the Trails we passed some Ten dead horses killed by the Indians and a quantity of Beeves also killed by the Indians in the Canon of the Sabinal One night while we were camped on the Sabinal the Indians Killed three head of cattle in a mile and a half of our camp behind us on our trail. We found two camps while trailing in the mountains that appears to have been occupied by the Indians for at least Two months We found enumerable sign of Indians on all the
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