GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.669966000000
Longitude: -99.076970000000
Longitude: -99.076970000000
County:
- Brown
Date:
May 1862
Time Period:
Description:
James Tankersley sells a load of bacon at Camp Collier with help from James Carmean. Lieutenant J.H. Chrisman cautions them to wait for a military ambulance to accompany them home. They decide to leave without the escort, and twenty unidentified Indians kill them at Clear Creek in Brown County as they travel northeast toward Comanche County.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 104-105.
John H. Chrisman Image Viewed: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19581775/john-henry-chrisman
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.669966000000
Longitude: -99.076970000000
Longitude: -99.076970000000
County:
- Brown
Date:
May 1862
Event Description:
James Tankersley sells a load of bacon at Camp Collier with help from James Carmean. Lieutenant J.H. Chrisman cautions them to wait for a military ambulance to accompany them home. They decide to leave without the escort, and twenty unidentified Indians kill them at Clear Creek in Brown County as they travel northeast toward Comanche County.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Unknown Tribe
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 104-105.
John H. Chrisman Image Viewed: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19581775/john-henry-chrisman