Twenty-three soldiers led by Lt. Fitzhugh Lee, encounter Comanches herding stolen livestock up the Pecan Bayou. The soldiers attack them south of Baird by Clear Creek in Callahan County. They kill two Comanches and recover most of the livestock.
Date: January 16, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.133682000000
Longitude: -99.394626000000
Longitude: -99.394626000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 13-14.
Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 164-166.
Event Type:
Date: January 26, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. soldiers attack a Comanche camp at Kickapoo Creek in north Concho County. They kill four Comanches and wound several others. Five soldiers are wounded in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.513016000000
Longitude: -99.960360000000
Longitude: -99.960360000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 14.
Event Type:
Date: February 13, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of settlers tracks and kills two Comanches as they lead a stolen herd of cattle through the Santa Anna Mountains
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.746798000000
Longitude: -99.316946000000
Longitude: -99.316946000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 22.
Event Type:
Date: February 13, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. soldiers find a Comanche camp in the vicinity of Kickapoo Creek, 28 miles east of present-day San Angelo. The soldiers kill one Comanche and wound two others. Two soldiers sustain wounds in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.512184000000
Longitude: -99.960805000000
Longitude: -99.960805000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 15.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White William Jenkins and John Willis track a small party of Indians in Mills County, 17 miles northwest of present-Goldthwaite. Two Indians are killed; Jenkins suffers a fatal wound and dies two days later.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.547412000000
Longitude: -98.304274000000
Longitude: -98.304274000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 38.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 481-482.
Event Type:
Date: June 28, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Settlers living near Hubbard Creek and five visitors including John R. Baylor, track and kill thirteen Comanches at Paint Creek, near present-day Throckmorton.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.062984000000
Longitude: -99.671524000000
Longitude: -99.671524000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 76.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 517-518.
Event Type:
Date: December 18, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. Lawrence Ross leads Texas Rangers, U.S. cavalry, and civilian volunteers to a Comanche camp at the junction of Mule Creek and Pease River, eighteen miles southwest of Vernon. Thirteen Comanches are killed, including women and children. Among the dead are Comanche chief Peta Nocona.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 34.070448000000
Longitude: -99.596379000000
Longitude: -99.596379000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 82-83.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 333-339.
Event Type:
Date: February 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A group of settlers tracks a raiding party of Wacos (Wichitas), believed to have been responsible for the murder of William Youngblood a few days earlier, to the East Fork of Keechi Creek, eleven miles north of present-day Mineral Wells. They attack and kill at least four.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.946347000000
Longitude: -98.219635000000
Longitude: -98.219635000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 76-77.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521-522.
Event Type:
Date: August 11, 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Apaches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Lt. Reuben Mays and fourteen soldiers attack a Mescalero Apache camp near present-day Marathon. Eighty Apaches repel the attack, killing all of the soldiers.
Tribe: Apaches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.205241000000
Longitude: -103.244890000000
Longitude: -103.244890000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 87-88.
Event Type:
Date: March 9, 1862
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of eleven settlers fight a similar number of Comanches off Pecan Bayou, seven miles west of present-day Goldthwaite. Owen Lindsey is killed; three other settlers are wounded. Two Indians die in the encounter.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.448301000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 101.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 491-493.
Event Type:
Date: April 9, 1862
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Texas Mounted Rifles led by Maj. James “Buck” Barry fight Comanches on the San Saba River in Mason County. They kill three Indians and wound one other. The Comanches wound four soldiers before retreating.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.927374000000
Longitude: -99.426509000000
Longitude: -99.426509000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 102.
Event Type:
Date: June 20, 1862
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of settlers track a band of 35-40 Lipan Apaches suspected of committing depredations in the Hondo Valley. They encounter around 40 Lipans on Chacon Creek, about seventeen miles south of Devine. At least five Indians are killed.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.140103000000
Longitude: -98.900328000000
Longitude: -98.900328000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 105-106.
Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 182-184
Event Type:
Date: Early October, 1862
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Fifteen settlers led by Taylor Thompson track a party of Comanches that had raided the farmhouse of Fritz Krawitz a few days earlier. They encounter the raiding party on the North Prong of the Medina River, twenty miles northwest of Bandera.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.860759000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 124-125.
Event Type:
Date: Late July, 1863
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Settlers fight a number of Comanches on Squaw Creek, about two miles northeast of present-day Glen Rose. One settler is wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.253675000000
Longitude: -97.726420000000
Longitude: -97.726420000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 142.
Event Type:
Date: September 1, 1863
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Lt. T. C. Wright and eleven rangers ambush a larger number of Comanches at Buffalo Gap. At least three rangers sustain injuries. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.279217000000
Longitude: -99.830386000000
Longitude: -99.830386000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 153-154.
Event Type:
Date: November 1863
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of settlers, including Alex Hall, Jr., tracks the group of Indians that had killed Alexander “Beardy” Hall to Jerry’s Branch of the San Saba River. The party kills one Indian and recovers Hall’s belongings.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.227384000000
Longitude: -98.651091000000
Longitude: -98.651091000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 158.
Event Type:
Date: December 22, 1863
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Confederate soldiers and Cooke County residents fight more than 100 Comanches about three miles south of South Fish Creek, below the Red River. Four soldiers and an unknown number of Indians are killed in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.710063000000
Longitude: -97.290350000000
Longitude: -97.290350000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 163.
Event Type:
Date: October 13, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of about 500 Comanches and Kiowas, including Chief Satanta, raid ranches along the Elm Creek tributary of the Brazos River, killing seven settlers and taking several captives. Comanche chief Little Buffalo and some of his men are killed during the raid.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.004487000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 155-156.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 182-190.
Event Type:
Date: November 25, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American In one of the largest battles fought between whites and Indians on the Great Plains, a force of more than 300 U.S. cavalry, under Col. Christopher "Kit" Carson, locate and attack a Kiowa and Comanche camp off the Canadian River near present-day Borger.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 35.906114000000
Longitude: -101.112565000000
Longitude: -101.112565000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 156-157.
Event Type:
Date: January 8, 1865
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A combined force of 486 Texas militiamen and Confederate soldiers attack a Kickapoo camp on Dove Creek, nearby present-day Knickerbocker. The Kickapoos repel the attack, losing fewer than twenty in the battle. Eight Confederates and eighteen militiamen die in the attack.
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.264740000000
Longitude: -100.643643000000
Longitude: -100.643643000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 162-163.
Event Type: