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took with them two ladies prisoners1 and several negroes with a
great number of horses and mules and about 2o or 3o thousand
dollars worth of merchandise. These Indians passed when going
into the settlement within 25 or 3o miles of the City of Austin
making a large trail for their number was about 3oo squaws and all.
The proper authorities did nothing to stop them or even to see
what they were doing or where they were going. This is one proof
of the lameness of the government to suffer 150 or 2oo Indian war-
riors to march 120 miles beyond the frontier past the soldiers un-
molested and murder citizens and burn down towns with impunity.
They were entirely unmolested until they had done all the mischief
they intended viz burned Linnville a small town just building on
Labaca Bay west of Matagorda which is at the mouth of Colorado
and taken all the goods and anything else they wanted and were
moving slowly and independently away when the people turning
[sic] out from all quarters and gave pursuit. On the 12th Col.
Burlesona2 and Gen. Huston33 with 200 men volunteers and regulars
fell in with them on their return about 20[?] miles from Austin
and gave them a complete route [sic] killed about 40 of them and
wounded a great many more retook all the plunder they had taken
and pursued them 15 miles when they dispersed in a bottom. The
two ladies who were captured by them were retaken but one was
killed when the battle began and the other wounded. A negro woman
also whom they had taken was wounded badly. They were deter-
mined to kill their prisoners when they had to leave them. The
Texians did not lose a man in killed;34 there was several wounded
though not mortally. These Indians had floged[?] 140 men near
Victoria the place they besieged. There was 140 men within one
hours march of them when they were attacked and had these
reached in time they would probably have cut them off entirely.
I have been thus particular because I apprehend that the report
against it reaches there will have been magnified greatly probably
to several thousand Indians and many towns laid waste and a great
many people killed and taken prisoners for the number was mag-
nified greatly even at this short distance from the scene of action.
I was on my march towards the scene that tries mens souls when
I heard the fun was all over and I had to return mortified at not
reaching the place for I felt like fighting. Preparing to follow Indians
is a very small job here. A man prepares a few days provision,
8lMrs. Crosby and Mrs. H. D. Watts. See John Holmes Jenkins, III, Recollec-
tions of Early Texas (Austin, 1958), 61n, 62; Rena Maverick Green (ed.),
Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (San Antonio, 1921), 49. The raid on Victoria took
place on August 6 and the attack on Linnville on August 8.
82Edward Burleson.
58Felix Huston.
e4Battle of Plum Creek.302o
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