356 In regard to continuing the time of service of the company to three months I have only to reply that wherever the emer- gency which has justified the [ ?] of the State authorities shall have ceased by the removal of the Indians beyond the limits of the State, you will then proceed at the earliest convenient season to disband the Company and make due report of your operations to this office. You will cause a sufficient number of men under the com- mand of a prudent officer to accompany the Indians in their re- moval, or follow immediately in their rear and watch their move- ments in order to prevent the commission of any outrage or check any cause of disturbance which might arise and remain on the border until the Indians shall have finally crossed Red River and passed beyond the limits of the State. I am Sir Very respectfully HR RUNNELS
[Endorsed]
Aug 6, 1859
William H. Russell appt Surveyor Boundary Commission
No. 264
LETTER FROM CAPT. JOHN HENRY BROWN TO GOVERNOR H. R. RUNNELS
Camp at Caddo Spring August 19, 1859
Governor:
I have the honor to report in brief that I left this camp on the 20 inst to follow the removing Indians to Red River. On the Little Wichita I established Camp Nowlin and thence scoured the count east forty miles, west forty miles and north to Red River. The extreme heat and hard riding and bad water occasioned by a rise in the Wichita, caused sickness among the men and rendered it necessary to leave the camp as soon as the Indians were all north of Red River, which I did on the 13th, having 8 sick men suffering with flu, one of whom, private Smith Estis, died at Camp Estis on Salt creek on the 15th. On the 4th we chased two parties of Reserve Indians, recov-
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