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Settler Killed on Curry Creek
Jesse Lawhon, an overseer for Judge William Early Jones (pictured), and an enslaved youth are attacked by Indians at Curry...
Indians Kill Slave Woman near Cibolo Creek.
Fifteen to twenty Indians attack Mr. Rector and the twelve-year-old son of Reverend McGee near Mr. Rector’s residence by the...
Slave Survives Comanche Attack
A slave herding horses is attacked by Comanches near Resley Creek, roughly twenty miles southwest of Stephenville. Though...
Two Settlers Killed Near Twin Mountains
Indians kill John Buhne and his black companion near the Twin Mountains, in present-day Erath County.
Indians Kill Two at Todd Mountain
Unidentified Indians kill Dizenia Todd and her female slave at Todd Mountain, four miles south of present-day Mason. The...
Indians Kill Two Women Near Weatherford
Unidentified Indians kill two African-American women—Rose Moore and her daughter Hannah—twelve miles northwest of...
Comanches Attack Settlers at Tecumseh Creek
A large number of Comanches attack five settlers and a black freeman at Tecumseh Creek. The freeman, Ward, is killed; John...
Indians Kill Two on Curry Creek
Unidentified Indians kill Theodore Gotthardt and a freeman on Curry Creek in Kendall County.
Comanches Kill Two Bosque County Residents
Comanches kill two African-Americans and take fourteen-year-old Ole Tergerson Nystel into captivity near Bee Creek in Bosque...
Battle of Fort Lancaster
A large combined force of Lipan Apaches, Kickapoos, Mexicans, and rogue Settlers (supposed ex-Confederates)—numbering in the...
Indians Kill Hubbard Creek Settler
Unidentified Indians attack George Hazlewood in the vicinity of Hubbard Creek, near present-day Breckenridge. Hazlewood...
U.S. Cavalry Attack Comanche Camp at Paint Creek
Capt. Adna R. Chaffee leads two detachments of cavalrymen to a Comanche encampment at Paint Creek, thirty miles southwest of...
U.S. Troops Attack Indians outside Juno
A black regiment of U.S. soldiers led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie encounters a party of unidentified Indians near Juno. They...
U.S. Soldiers Fight Comanches
Ten black soldiers led by Sgt. Emanuel Stance exchange gunfire with Comanches over the course of two days near Kickapoo...
Kiowas Kill Three Black Settlers in Young County
Kiowa chiefs Mamanti and Quitan lead 25 warriors in an attack on three black settlers, Brit Johnson, Dennis Cureton, and...
Kiowas Kill U.S. Soldier
Kiowas attack Troop B of the Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts at Foster Valley Creek, three miles northwest of present-day...
Apaches Attack Mail Wagon
Apaches attack a mail wagon on the northwest slope of the Eagle Mountains, twenty-one miles west of Van Horn. African-...
U.S. Troops Fight Comanches
U.S. soldiers and three black Seminole scouts led by Lt. John L. Bullis attack roughly 30 Comanches at Eagle Nest Creek....
U.S. Troops Fight Comanches
Lt. Andrew Geddes leads U.S. soldiers and Black Seminole Scouts in an attack on Comanches at the mouth of the Pecos River...
Buffalo Soldiers Attack Comanches
Capt. Phillip L. Lee and 42 African-American soldiers attack a group of Comanches near present-day Morton. They kill at...