The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923 Page: 229
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Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath
the Trinity. A Colorado party under Captain Robert M. Cole-
man, about twenty-five in number, was repulsed at the Tehaucana
village east of the Brazos, and there was a call for a general cam-
paign.2
I enrolled in a company under John H. Moore, and about the
fifth of August we reached Parker's Settlement, and were joined
by Captain Coleman's company. After waiting for the swollen
Navasota to run down, we marched on to the village. Texas In-
dians never allowed themselves to be attacked by a hundred men
together; they had evacuated the village, and we had nothing to
do but occupy it. We found sixty acres in corn, which was just
hard enough to be gritted, and by making holes in the bottom of
the tin cups we carried we fashioned graters, and supplied our-
selves with bread. There were also numbers of pumpkins, water-
melons, muskmelons, peas, and other vegetables, such as were then
raised by Indians in their primitive agriculture.
In two days we left the place, and, going eighteen or twenty
miles over the prairie, late in the afternoon we came within a
mile of a belt of timber extending along the Pin Oak Creek, which
empties into the Trinity. The scouts reported Indians in the
timber. We were formed into line. The commander and his ad-
jutant took as much precaution as if we were about to fight such
formidable foes as Creeks, Cherokees, and Seminoles-foes the
two had faced in their younger days under Jackson. After we
had paraded and maneuvred for about fifteen minutes, the order
was given to charge. We did so, charging two or three hundred
yards, through post oak timber over boggy soil. The officers were
particular to keep us in line. Then we were met by the scouts
with another piece of news: the Indians were all fled-what few
there had been-about half a dozen. They had taken to flight at
our first demonstration. We captured a pony-one hundred strong
as we were. In camping near the place that night there was much
laughing over the adventure. I was riding a young horse which
had been caught a colt from the mustangs, that was fiery. When
the order came to charge, it darted forward ahead of all the rest,
and I found myself alone in the advance. Next came McFall, who
2For variants of the account of this campaign, see Brown's Indian Wars
and Pioneers of Texas, 25-26; and De Shield's Border Wars of Texas, 131,
134.229
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