The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926 Page: 189
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The Jacksboro Indian Affair of 1871
ing the raid into Texas. As in his conversations with Tatum,
Satanta readily admitted that he had led the raid, saying that
he had blown his bugle ordering the attack.8" General Sherman
then pointed out to him that such a raid by a party of one hun-
dred and fifty Indians against the twelve teamsters who did not
even know how to fight was a very cowardly thing to do, and that
if the Indians wanted to fight, his soldiers stood ready at any
time to meet them in battle.8' He told Satanta that because of
this breach of faith on his part he and the other three chiefs asso-
ciated with him in the raid were to be placed under arrest and
sent back to Texas to be tried for the crime. Satanta then sought
to deny what he had just said concerning his part in the raid.
He informed General Sherman that though he was in the party
that went to Texas, he had taken no part in the fight; that he
had gone along to look after the wounded in another party of
braves which had gone to Texas and had come in contact with a
band of settlers; that if he were let alone he would always use a
restraining influence on his braves when they wished to foray in
Texas. While the conversation was in progress, Lone Wolf, one
of the Kiowa chiefs, rode up on his horse, dismounted and ap-
proached the house in which General Sherman was talking to the
chiefs.38 Defiantly he took a blanket from about his shoulders and
tied it about his waist, then handing a bow and quiver of arrows
to one of his warriors and a gun to another, he seated himself on
the porch, cocked his gun and laid it across his lap. A detach-
ment of soldiers standing by immediately leveled their rifles on
the band of hostile warriors, and trouble would undoubtedly have
followed had not a diversion been created some distance away by
a hostile Indian trying to get by the sentry who ordered him to
stop. When the order was not obeyed the sentry fired, killing
the Indian. Immediately following this incident, Satanta, Satank,
and Big Tree were arrested. Eagle Heart made his escape and
was not apprehended.
Shortly after this incident occurred General MacKenzie arrived
at Fort Sill and reported that he had failed to overtake the raid-
s'Ibid.
"7Account as found in W. T. Sherman's Semi-Official Letters, 1866-1871-
Journal of March, entry of May 27, 1871, Documents on file in Library of
Congress, Washington, D. C.
88Report of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1871, pp. 502-504.189
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