The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 61, July 1957 - April, 1958 Page: 352
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Indians had used this crossing extensively on their return from
raids in Texas. Thus it became the Station. This company was
the most northwestern outpost of the Confederacy. Most of the
members came from Cooke County, in and around Gainesville.
The commanding officer was Captain John T. Rowland. An exam-
ination of the copies of the roster reveals that by the end of 1863.
there were one hundred men on the roll ranging in age from
eighteen to sixty-one.
Upon arrival, the company erected a stockade, just where is
not known, but the writer's deduction is that it was located in
the field just south of the crossing and was placed in such a posi-
tion so there would be open fire in all directions. Other advan-
tages of the location were the many good springs in Salt Creek.
When the company came to this location, the cowmen and their
families came in and forted up with them, building log cabins
along the west bank of the creek.
After the arrival of the company, Indian depredations fell off
and according to Fannie Cora Potter's History of Montague
County, only two or three persons were killed in the county during
this time except for the raid of December 22 and 23, 1863, which
wiped out the settlement of Illinois Bend, located about fifteen
miles north and east of the Station. Captain Rowland had a sub-
sequent engagement with this band of Indians as he followed
the party into Cooke County. A part of Rowland's company was
sent to South Texas during the Civil War and there the members
took part in the Kickapoo Indian fight on Dove Creek.
Upon occasion Kickapoo were visitors at Red River Station.
From these Indians the white children of the settlement learned
songs and some of the descendants still know them. Some of the
Indians died while there and were buried in the cemetery at the
Station.
During the war, the cowmen who lived at the Station grazed
their cattle in the northern part of Montague and Clay counties,
the majority being held west of Red River Station. In September,
1866, large bands of Indians came into this area and drove these
cattle into Indian Territory.
Following these raids Red River Station began a new phase of
its life. Fort Sill had completely replaced Fort Cobb in Indian
Territory, and large amounts of supplies were being freighted352
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