Post by bobdurham on Sept 11, 2008 15:55:36 GMT -5
This doesn't quite fit because it was before the Texas Republic, but I thought it was interesting . . .
THE GAZETTE.
BY H. B. STROTHER BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, APRIL 20, 1832. VOL. II. NO. 9.
The New Orleans Courier contains a long detail of an engagement between a party of nine Americans and one hundred and sixty-four Towaconie Indians, in the Province of Texas, in November last. The Americans having been advised of the intended attack, prepared for defence [sic] on a small island in the St. Soha river, which was completely surrounded by the Indians, who kept up a heavy fire. Being driven back, an Indian crawled along and set fire to the leaves and grass windward of the encampment, which with much difficulty was extinguished with buffalo robes, deer skins, &c. The enemy were driven off, and the heroic little band, as in token of defiance, hoisted on the top of a tree a white flag with a bloody spot. The account says – “We had three white men severely wounded and one killed; and lost several horses. There was not one who had not his clothes pierced and skin grazed in several places. We saw twenty-one Indians fall dead on the ground; and the next morning, at their encampment, we counted 45 bloody spots on the grass, supposed to have been produced by the blood that ran from the bodies of the wounded.”
THE GAZETTE.
BY H. B. STROTHER BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, APRIL 20, 1832. VOL. II. NO. 9.
The New Orleans Courier contains a long detail of an engagement between a party of nine Americans and one hundred and sixty-four Towaconie Indians, in the Province of Texas, in November last. The Americans having been advised of the intended attack, prepared for defence [sic] on a small island in the St. Soha river, which was completely surrounded by the Indians, who kept up a heavy fire. Being driven back, an Indian crawled along and set fire to the leaves and grass windward of the encampment, which with much difficulty was extinguished with buffalo robes, deer skins, &c. The enemy were driven off, and the heroic little band, as in token of defiance, hoisted on the top of a tree a white flag with a bloody spot. The account says – “We had three white men severely wounded and one killed; and lost several horses. There was not one who had not his clothes pierced and skin grazed in several places. We saw twenty-one Indians fall dead on the ground; and the next morning, at their encampment, we counted 45 bloody spots on the grass, supposed to have been produced by the blood that ran from the bodies of the wounded.”
