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Vigilantes Hang an Enslaved Person in Georgetown
Settler vigilantes hang an enslaved person in Georgetown, having suspected the individual of burning down a stable and...
Vigilantes Hang Athens Enslaved Man
Settler vigilantes hang an enslaved man at Science Hill in Athens, having accused the man of being in possession of...
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...
Two African Americans Killed in Bosque County
Sol Nicholson and James Gathings kill two African American men near Clifton. They are not prosecuted.
African-American Lynched in Walker County
Four Anglo men flog and then kill a black man named Samuel Jenkins in Walker County.
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...
State Policemen Kill Two in Groesbeck
Four African American state policemen kill two white men in an altercation in a Groesbeck saloon. A white mob of locals...
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...