Longitude: -97.169463000000
- Milam
Fifteen rangers under George B. Erath attack a party of approximately 100 Indians on Elm Creek in Milam County, eight miles from present-day Cameron. Ten Indians and two whites (Clark Childers and Frank Childers) are killed.
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 48-52.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Edited by Charles Adam Gulick, et al. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:212-219.
George Bernhard Erath Original Title: Veterans of San Jacinto
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: San Jacinto Museum of History
Image Viewed: https://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Library/Veteran_Bios/Bio_page/?id=280&army=Texian
Image Accessed: April 24, 2019
Longitude: -97.169463000000
- Milam
Fifteen rangers under George B. Erath attack a party of approximately 100 Indians on Elm Creek in Milam County, eight miles from present-day Cameron. Ten Indians and two whites (Clark Childers and Frank Childers) are killed.
- Unknown Tribe
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 48-52.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Edited by Charles Adam Gulick, et al. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:212-219.
George Bernhard Erath Original Title: Veterans of San Jacinto
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: San Jacinto Museum of History
Image Viewed: https://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Library/Veteran_Bios/Bio_page/?id=280&army=Texian
Image Accessed: April 24, 2019