TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859 231 The fresh trail of the Indians retraced their route to the settle- ments, as appeared by former camps and trails. Their route is about fifty miles south ·from the road between San Antonio and Eagle Pass; through an extensive, unsettled, chapparal re- gion-from which all the settlements west of the San Antonio River are accessible to these Indians when and where they please. After the depredations, the Indians recrossed the Rio Grande in four days-and they may always escape in the same way, until the military forces shall have been rendered adequate to protect the frontier. It has been sa'id that the pursuers applied for assistance from the military post near Laredo. This is a mistake-for it was too late--the Indians having gone into Mexico.-The party learned, moreover, that the post near Laredo was deficient in horses, and that the commandant employed the men on foot occasionally, to make excursions as well as they could. We cast no censure on the military. The pursuit was pressed as much as possible, so that some horses failed, and part of the company turned back-but thir- teen went through to the Rio Grande. The undersigned are eleven of the number-and make this statement for public in- formation. The other members of the party are not present, or they would unite, no doubt, in this statement.
R. H. HILL. C. G. WORD. R. R. LOTT. JOHN HODGES. WM. MORRIS.
BARTON PECK. JAS. M. WORD. E. W. EVANS.
P. HAGEY.
W. T. TIPPEN.
JOHN PHELPS.
Goliad, August 6th 1855.
No. 141 LETTER FROM BEXAR COUNTY COMMITTEE TO E. M. PEASE San Antonio Sept 1st 1855 To His Excellency E. M. Pease Governor of The State of Texas
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