The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-13

got scared there sure enough. was trail
ing and Just ahead OF me In the head Of
a hollow l saw black head of hair boil
up and for minute l forgot whether
| was man or q statue OF stump. But
came to and thought OF my gun and the
thing bobbed up again and made IL out
II was an Indian pony. i crept UP and
saw what 1t was. II had fallen down III
the hollow and had six or seven bushels
of corn on 1t. / rolled the corn off and
gave 1t some Of the corn and went on like
a hero would
You know now will return to the bat
tie. The Third and Ninth Texas were
west OF the creek, and the Sixth regiment.
to which | belonged. charged up the east
side OF the creek and half mile w the
creek we overlook part of the Indians in
the east prong of the creek. man by
the name of Wolworth and l were to-
gether. | was next to the creek bank ana
an Indian shot at me and shot VOL
worths horse through the shoulders, You
bet was u proud man that | did not get
murdered by that redeyed Indian.
Lieutenant Colonel Griffith OF the Sixth
/ regiment charged the Indian and he ana
/ the Indian had 1t with sword and gun I'M
til Lieutenant Vance OF my company came
up and shot the Indian with his old holster
pistol and ended the battle, Those were
two heroes. and still We kept up the fight
and We would get an Indian now and then
and once in while they would get one
of us. The four men that saw killed
out of our regiment were Lieutenant Fitz-
hugh of Mckinney Captain Throckmor-
| tons company, and the next was MI
| Arnold of Waco. Captain Ross company,
G.. The next man, II mistake not, was
Lieutenant Colonel Young. wounded
through the feshy part of his posterior
with ramrod However. of the Ninth
Texas regiment they did not kill many OF
us or wound many. ] saw one OF the
Ninth Texas regiment just after he spit
an Indians head open to his shoulders
with a big home made knife. he hao
broken his rifle off at the small OF .
stock over the Indians head and this
stunned him until the man could draw ms
knife and as the Indian came again the
man split his head open as above stated,
4 and half an hour after this he killed a
| young Indian with the broken gun. The
Indian was making the arrows whizz at
| him.
! The fight ended and the Indians lost
| great many men and all their trains oil
| wagons and a great many of their ponies
! and supplies.
| write this as ! have never seen an
account of this big Indian fight by any
one and 1t may be | will draw some old
veteran out on this, our first fight at the
! commencement of the war of the world.
for every nation of the earth was fighting
the South through the North States. will
close with these facts and try to give some
more of my observations of the war OF the
States. Excuse bad writing, poor English
and no grammar. Yours most respectfully,
w. w. Gilley,
At the time of this fight member of COM
paily a, Sixth Texas cavalry, Warren B.
stones regiment, Army of the Conted-
crate States of America
(Note.--I have let Comrade Gilley's let
ter go as he wrote It, 1t is exactly what |
want. Facts. plainly and naturally told
S. o. W
| How We Lost the Horses.
| Galveston, Texas, August 9.-After en-
terng Pennsylvania our battalion halted at
or near Coshtunn. on the farm of Hon
Thad Stevens. Here we rested for some
time, l suppose awaiting developments
During this rest detail OF several men,
such as We're good riders, was made and
put in charge OF an officer. Lieutenant
Ham Chamberlain. and started out to
gather horses for the use of the artillery.
Crossing the mountain into the Cumber-
! land valley we found rich field for opera
tions among the thirty farms of that region
and soon had as many horses as the squad
could well handle so started to rejoin
our command. 1t was a beautiful Sabbath
morning, and on our return we came to a
church where large congregation had as
sembled for the purpose of divine worship
and to discuss the rebel raid, that they
did not dream would endanger their parti-
cular section. The grove surrounding the
church was filed with vehicles of all de-
scriptions each drawn by from one to four
fine horses, just the kind that We needed
10 draw our guns, and we proceeded TO
take our pick Notwithstanding the plead
ing tears Of their owners, but our leader
assured them that they would be paid for
each and every animal taken and proceed
ed TO give regular vouchers to their late
owners payable after a ratification of
peace between the Confederate States OF
America and the United States of Amer
lea, This last addition brought our drove
up TO about 200 horses quite as many as
our small squad could handle so we
pushed on in the direction of our friends,
but had not gone far when an old woman,
living in small house Immediately by
the roadside, stopped our leader and
begged that we would turn back, as the
Union cavalry We're on that road and
would capture and kill the whole party.
OF course, we thought she was trying
10 deceive us, so pushed straight ahead,
soon entering the mountain, where there
was but one road, and no chance to turn
to right or left. The officer and two men
were in front and the balance OF the squad
In the rear to hurry the horses up. AS the
head of the column turned sudden bend
in the road, behold. double line of blue
horsemen blocked the way no chance
to get by unless we could break the line.
three against hundred. Our first thought
was to turn and retreat, but heard the
reports of a volley in the rear Our COM
mander drawing his revolver said Men,
save yourselves as best you can, and start
ed full speed into the blue line, as If he
expected to break IL. volley came, and
we saw him struggling under his horse
and a dozen carbines aimed at him He
again cried: "Save yourselves, men. If you
can Dismounting. the squad took to the
bush and. owing to the rough nature CT the
country, the cavalry could not pursue,
and they seemed content with the capture
OF our commander and two men. The
balance OF the squad turned up in the
next day or so all right, but footsore aud
hungry, and minus even the horses they
had ridden out of camp, The three pris- !
oners We're finally paroled and came back
TO us. Not one OF them had been wounded. |
A. S. Drewry,
Private Artillery, Third Corps.
A Confederate Veteran.
Chappel Hill. Washington County, |