Longitude: -95.507301000000
- Henderson
Texas troops under Gen. Kelsey H. Douglas and General Tom Rusk engage Chief Bowles’ retreating Cherokees on Battle Creek, west of the Neches River, three and a half miles northwest of present-day Chandler. Eighteen Cherokees and four Texans are reported killed.
Handbook of Texas Online, “Neches, Battle of The,” accessed June 29, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen02. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on May 10, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:246-251.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk Original Title: Thomas J. Rusk
Image Type: Engraving
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Baker, D. W. C., A Texas Scrap-Book Made Up of the History, Biography and Miscellany of Texas and Its People. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1875, opp page 155
Longitude: -95.507301000000
- Henderson
Texas troops under Gen. Kelsey H. Douglas and General Tom Rusk engage Chief Bowles’ retreating Cherokees on Battle Creek, west of the Neches River, three and a half miles northwest of present-day Chandler. Eighteen Cherokees and four Texans are reported killed.
- Cherokees
Handbook of Texas Online, “Neches, Battle of The,” accessed June 29, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen02. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on May 10, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:246-251.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk Original Title: Thomas J. Rusk
Image Type: Engraving
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Baker, D. W. C., A Texas Scrap-Book Made Up of the History, Biography and Miscellany of Texas and Its People. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1875, opp page 155