Longitude: -95.432632000000
- Anderson
At a Delaware village west of the Neches River, about 19 miles southeast of present-day Canton, 500 Texans under General Kelsey H. Douglas pursue and engage 800 retreating Cherokees in the last major engagement of the Cherokee War. One hundred Indians, including Duwali, aka Chief Bowles, and Chief Big Mush are killed. Five Texas soldiers die in the battle.
Handbook of Texas Online, “Neches, Battle of The,” accessed June 29, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen02. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on May 10, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
“Cherokee War,” Telegraph and Texas Register, August 7, 1839.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:251-268.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 24, 1839.
Battle of Neches Original Title: Battle of Neches - July 16, 1839
Image Type: Painting
Creator: Donald M. Yena
Image Citation:
Connor, Seymour V. and Yena, Donald M., Battles of Texas, Texian Press: Waco, Texas, 1967, p. 79
Longitude: -95.432632000000
- Anderson
At a Delaware village west of the Neches River, about 19 miles southeast of present-day Canton, 500 Texans under General Kelsey H. Douglas pursue and engage 800 retreating Cherokees in the last major engagement of the Cherokee War. One hundred Indians, including Duwali, aka Chief Bowles, and Chief Big Mush are killed. Five Texas soldiers die in the battle.
- Cherokees
Handbook of Texas Online, “Neches, Battle of The,” accessed June 29, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen02. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on May 10, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
“Cherokee War,” Telegraph and Texas Register, August 7, 1839.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:251-268.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 24, 1839.
Battle of Neches Original Title: Battle of Neches - July 16, 1839
Image Type: Painting
Creator: Donald M. Yena
Image Citation:
Connor, Seymour V. and Yena, Donald M., Battles of Texas, Texian Press: Waco, Texas, 1967, p. 79