Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-18
FRONTIER SKETCHES.
Army bife in Texas During the First
Years Of the Rebellion.
The Massacre Of james Tankersley and
James 0aim,ne in Brown County,

mIR, DIAN, Tx, Jan. is, 1885.
For the Gazette.
soon after the ordinance OF secession
was passed by the convention at Aus.
tin, 10 1861, Col IL. Il. Mccullough
was dispatched to the frontier with or
ders to raise regiment in the frontier
counties and TO capture the Uuit d
States posts on the frontier OF Texas
This order Col. Mccullough proceeded
forthwith to obey, and heonll trouble
in raising the regiment was refusing to
accept the hundreds Of applicants over
the maximum number allowed to emit 7
the rtgimeut Alter the organization
he regiment prrcet d, d at once to dis.
cnarge the duties assigned To IL. Gen.
David +. Twirgs YVES in
command at the time OF
the Texas department, and he quietly,
Withuut the rrihg of gun, surrrn-
defed The pusts, aud Col. MuCullnugh's
regiment remained on the frontier,
rendering the NEST tfii.ien protec-
tiou curing that year that the frontier
OF Texas hsd had
! In the early part Of 1862 the regi-
ment was put into the Confederate
/ service proper, and ordered TO other
/ helda for action. la the meantime
| the NVrihtru Comauches and other
marching bands Of ludians had kept
| up "A continual SERIES OF depredations
on the fr inter Their forging par.
ties being we'll armed with the very
best quality OF long range guns, made
| them dOuhly formidable to What
they had hitherto been in Their
ct acks, a. well as IN de
tending themselves. ard thtil
marauding parties were more boldand
daring.
The legislature Of 1862 passed an aci
ordering the raising OF ''Ihe frontier
regiment" of state troops. and placing
them upon "A line from Red river 4
tie Rp Graude. The companies o,
the regiment were divided aud sta
toned thirty miles apsrt, and tw,
scouts OF ten meu in each scout lef
each sta ion every morning. one goinl
north up he line, the other goinJ
south down the liue. This system o
double scouts patreled the line eacl
way every day from Red river to tn
Rio GrHnde. But nOtWithstand
ing this double patrol lin
aud the viRi ance ant
keen eyes OF the ranger, msraudn
bands of Indians we're continuously
passing below the line and committing
2 Thur bold and daring depredations up
ON the frontier ciIizrus, and fr, queut
~ succeeded in passing out withou
beiug caught.
Snme Time in August, 1862, Jsme
Tsnkerslty anu JAMES Carmine, b9tl
citiz-ns of COmauche county, we're II
turning home from one Of the citation
+ on this line, on the waters Of Clea
. creek In Blown county. Some seve
/ miles from the station, and about
! O'clock "a m they enc Iuutered eleve
!. well-mounted ana well-armed INDIAN
, Tsuke,sley and Carmine mad
AN effort TO return TO the station
but the Indians overlook thei
af,er a running fight for son
three-fouTths Of mile, and killed bnl
of hem, mutilating TankersIey's bod
. ia The most horrible manner, nut the
from some cause did notscalp Carmil
Z. NOR strip or muiilBte his h, dy. Tv
= rangers from the station were retur
a ing 10 camp aud caue alOug just AS q
/ dians were i,Evlug the ground, IA
u lively chase for two miles AT ouce q
d sued, but being well mounted Gall
b CHER and Larg-, the ranper-, succeeds
:, in escaping aud on reaching the At
tinn on Gear creek, At once made
y hasty, incOherent report uf the atiai
y The excite ment in camps for fe
minutes eau neither lie imagine
4. nor detciibed, hut as sCon az possible
= scout WAS IN the saddle aud riding at
& RAPID gait. The trail was soon reachi
% I ar.A a Irf ,nrantf ntahn Nm fnntif
in sight of The Indians the next da
= the scout ran their horse- dOwn-tl
hors es fainting and falling aud sevS
= of them dS ing insiAntly-buti failed
:" ca CHI the Indians, only TecOveril
Tanktrsley's horse and saddle. ~
scouts returned TO camp, ven Of the
afr {, almost exhausted and badly d
Of appointed in not Overtaking The
dams TanRersley and CArmine We
buried near the station ON Clear cree
The writer was on the gT0ui
10 few hours after they we
d. KILLED, and the amount
Of blood strewn around TankleTsle!
n hndy looked to be impossible 10 ma
:, flown from one man. He was lar
" robust, healthy man, and one Of Gu
" anche Couniy'a bert citi5-I 3, az d
q. Old Indian II liter: cool ana deliberl
" and as brave as q Turk CArmine "
~ also frst class man. He WAS a I
" i've Texan, raised in WAshingt
AZ county.
In my next will give an account
!, the tragic death OF Capt. Allen
% Anderson OF Bosque county, who v
sc mistaken by Que II our Scouts and Y
shot for an Indian.
n FRANK M COLLIER