Tarrant County, Texas The following information is from the book, Fort Worth, A Frontier Triumph, by Julia Kathryn Garrett. In September, John H. Dyer, brigadier general of the Fourth Brigade, raised a company of volunteers and moved against the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Picture of Elephant Rock 13 May 1869; Traer, Kansas: After leading an unsuccessful mission as the third prong of Gen. Sheridan's winter campaign into Indian territory, Maj. Eugene Carr...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Capt. J.H. Dillahunty Near the close of the Civil War, and about 1864, F.C. Ham, Dick Evans, Bill Low, Ryan Herrington, Bryant Herrington, Spruell and three or four others, belonging to Capt. J.H. Dillahunty's company, and...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 25 April 1875; Langtry, Texas: Lt. John L. Bullis, 24th Infantry, and three Seminole-African scouts, Sgt. John Ward and Pvts. Isaac Payne and Pompey Factor, were trailing a raiding party...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 13 August 1868; Lincoln, Kansas: More than 200 Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Lakotas, under prominent warriors such as Man-Who-Breaks-the Marrow-Bones, Tall Wolf, Porcupine Bear, and Bear...
Throckmorton County, Texas Young County, Texas About 1872, Two Dillard brothers, who lived in Young County, took a load of watermelons to Ft. Griffin, where they attended a dance. The boys then started home and were on the old Belknap-Griffin road...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 3 October 1854; Eagle Pass, Texas: When Lipan Apaches stole stock and attacked travelers east of the Rio Grande, Capt. John G. Walker took companies D and K, Mounted Rifles, from Fort...
Coleman County, Texas During the summer of 1870, Jno. M. Elkins lived in one of the old government buildings at Camp Colorado, in Coleman County. After being two or three times disturbed, he again looked to see if the Indians were stealing a horse...
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