Comanches Sack Linnville | Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-79

GeoCoords:

Latitude: 28.659738000000
Longitude: -96.635841000000

County:

Calhoun

Date:

August 8, 1840

Time Period:

Texas Republic 1836-45

Description:

Following an attack on Victoria on August 6, a large force of Penateka Comanches proceeds to the coast, killing three men, two of them slaves, north of Linnville on Lavaca Bay. Taking the townspeople by surprise, the raiding party seizes several hundred horses and loots the port’s warehouses, killing customs officer Hugh Oran Watts. John J. Linn was one of the survivors.

Event Type:

Raiding Activity

Race or Ethnicity:

Native American

White

Tribe:

Comanches

Age:

adult (18+)

Citation:

Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840,"Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.

John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 80.

John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,

1935), 26-27.

Image
Image details

John Joseph Linn

Caption: John Joseph Linn
Original Title: John Joseph Linn
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: Kurtz, W
Collection: Photographs Texas History, UTSA Special Collections
Image Viewed: https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/4564/
Image Accessed: October 20, 2020
Image Citation:

Photographer's imprint: "W. Kurtz Madison Square"; Engraving from this photograph used as frontispiece in John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years inTexas, New York, 1883.