380 Nowlin, should it be deemed safe, you will return with a portion of the men to this camp within 4 or 5 days, leaving him a force of at least 25 or 30 men to remain there until the removal of the Indians, allowing himself only time to rejoin the command in its march to Red River. Purchase subsistance and forage from citizens as far as needed, on the credit of the State, Keeping an account of the same in order that the necessary certificates may be issued to the parties.
JNO HENRY BROWN Capt Commanding
Officers Rank
1st Lieut Nowlin 1st " White
1st Detachment of Company
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2nd " Carmack 1st
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2nd " Bell
To 1st Lieut W. H. White 2d Detachment.
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Camp at Caddo Spring Aug 1st 1859
Capt J no Henry Brown
Comdg State Troops Indian Reserve Sir
In Compliance with your orders of the 22nd ult. I proceeded with a scout of twelve men to the Comanche Reserva- tion reaching its vicinity on the night of the 2nd. Nothing of im- portance occurred up to that time. On the morning of the 24th as we approached the lower line of the Reserve, and some two or three miles therefrom, we found an Indian driving horses. I or- dered my men to chase him. Some one of the scout cried out "a white man with him" We immediately halted and surveyed the neighborhood around to see if a white man was indeed with him, but seeing none I then beckoned to the Indian to come to me, he looking at me at the time. Instead of doing so he put spurs to his horse and ran off as fast as his horse could carry him. The case was then renewed and kept up till he reached the Reserve bound- ary, in the meantime the Indian shooting an arrow back, and being shot at twice. The Indian shot first. We then drew off and crossed the river some two or three miles below the Reserve, and then travelled up the same in search of the Spring which had been recommended to us as a good camping ground. While going
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