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Comanches Attack Wagon Train
100 Comanches led by Yellow Wolf raid a wagon train at Cherry Spring fourteen miles northwest of Fredericksburg. Four...
Fredericksburg Residents Lynch Indian Youth
An Indian youth, possibly Tonkawa, looking for food is taken by local residents outside of town and shot. His body is...
Comanches Kill Fredericksburg Settler
Comanches kill a German settler named Berg seven miles east of Fredericksburg.
Comanches Kill Willow Creek Settler
Comanches shoot Heinrich Grobe on Willow Creek, about ten miles northeast of Fredericksburg. He dies of his wounds two days...
Comanches Kill Gillespie County Settler
Comanches attack James Billings and his son at the head of Willow Creek in Gillespie County, ten miles north of...
Texas Rangers Skirmish with Comanches on the Pedernales River
Capt. James M. Hunter and eleven rangers encounter eleven Comanches on the Pedernales River, near Harper. Six Indians are...
Comanches Kill a German outside Fredericksburg
Comanches kill Henry Arhelger within six miles of Fredericksburg while he was scouting for Indians.
Comanches Kill Parker County Settlers
Having killed the Hamilton brothers earlier in the day, a party of Comanches travel four miles north up Patrick Creek. They...
Comanches Kill Fredericksburg Girl
Comanches capture two girls, Emma and Anna Metzger, two miles north of Fredericksburg. Emma, age fourteen, is killed after...
Kiowas Raid Pedernales River Homestead
A band of Kiowas attack the homestead of Matthew Taylor, killing two family members, a man and a woman, on the Pedernales...
Indians Kill Woman and Daughter on Pedernales
Unidentified Indians kill Elizabeth Joy and her daughter, Mahala Alwinda Joy McDonald, two miles below the headwaters of the...
Comanches Take German Youth Captive
Comanches take thirteen-year-old Rudolph Gottlieb into captivity on the north bank of the Pedernales River, six miles...
Apaches Capture Two German Youths
Apaches raid Philip Buchmier’s farm in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, kidnapping his two stepsons: Willie and Herman Lehman...
Posse Fights Indians
An Anglo posse consisting of L. M. McDonald, Peter Hazlewood, E. R. Jones, J. J. Taylor, T. T. Taylor, and Hudson Taylor...