Fifteen to twenty Indians attack Mr. Rector and the twelve-year-old son of Reverend McGee near Mr. Rector’s residence by the Cibolo River, some twenty miles east of San Antonio. The Indians kidnap the boy, and a short time later kill a black woman.
Date: August 31, 1855
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.379368000000
Longitude: -98.152333000000
Longitude: -98.152333000000
Citation:
San Antonio Texan, Vol. 7, No. 47, September 6, 1855.
Event Type:
Date: September 27, 1855
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. William “Bigfoot” Wallace and thirteen rangers encounter near Elm Creek a small band believed to have recently stolen cattle nine miles south of Castroville. One Indian is killed; two are wounded.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.496622000000
Longitude: -97.972760000000
Longitude: -97.972760000000
Citation:
San Antonio Texan, Vol. 7, No. 51, October 4, 1855.
Event Type:
Date: May-June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, White An enslaved man named George is sentenced to death on June 29th after being found guilty of inciting a rebellion in Burleson County.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.531936000000
Longitude: -96.693402000000
Longitude: -96.693402000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 12, June 5, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-August 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, White Around twenty blacks are hanged in connection with an alleged slave rebellion in Waxahachie.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.383987000000
Longitude: -96.847525000000
Longitude: -96.847525000000
Citation:
State Gazette, Vol. 12, No. 1, August 11, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 20, July 31, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: September 8, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black Several dozen enslaved people are hanged or burned in Marshall, accused of participation in an alleged slave rebellion.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.545213000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 88.
Event Type: