PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 101 Byrd and Nash were tied together; Gays arm was cut off & hung on a willow tree; all were stripped. The dead being disposed of, the men marched in in [sic] search of the enemy, and came upon their camp about 15 miles from the battle field. The Indians were gone. The old buckhorn warrior was there, buried on the side of a hill with his trinkets upon him & his buffaloe horns just as he fell in action- Brookshire took command of the compy after Bird's death. The Battle was fought on Sunday 26th May 1839 [Endorsed :] No. 2181 1845 Jan. 6, CAROLINE SAWYER, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK] 2 ' "Stanzas to Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar." A. D. S. 2 p. No. 2182 1845 Feb. 2, HAMILTON R. BOONE, ANN T. STEPHENS AND J. M. STORMS, BALTIMORE, [MARYLAND] TO [M. B. LAMAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.] 26 Notes from the wayside Chap 1. Bird's Fight 1839 Bird was an old settler.
U S Hotel Baltimore Feby 2d./45
Dear General/
Here we are brought up all standing from the fact that the cars don't leave here until 8 o'clock P. M. The people of this regio[n] have got just enough of religion to tempt travellers out of their warm & cozy beds at 5 in the morning put them into an uncom- fortable car (in which by way of aggravatifig their feelings is placed a little sheet iron box with a few coals just enough to swear by scarcely lighted, which box aforesaid is called a stove and around which is placed a very firm grim looking railing to protect the clothes .of the passer's by from being scorched or instantly ignited by the fierce and glowing surface intended to be imagined by the victims) carry them a few miles on their homeward journey and then stop them because it is Sunday and they think it.is wicked to work the poor Locomotive too muc[h.] I really believe that there is a plot yes a most audacious, infamous, scandalous- outrageous- &c. &c. &c. conspiracy between these cant- mells [sic] & the hotel keepers to stop people on the highway a modern style of free booting on shore- Oh! the horror of being shut up in a small room with two such interesting females all day in such a dull place But pardon me if in my agony of mental and bodily suffering I have poured into your ear the tale of my own misery little thinking of your •A. L. S. ..Printed in M. B. Lamar, Verse Memorials, pp. 11-12.
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