| [p.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------] Information from Wm. B. Stout Born Virginia, moved to Texas from Illinois 1836 - Febry ____________________________ In the fall of 1837 - the Indians commenced stealing on the Red River - In the spring of '38 a small campaign was made against them, nothing however was effected -- ________________ November 1838 Capt. Stout raised a Company under the order of Genl. Dyre 38 men; moved against a small village on the White Oak a branch of the Sulpher Fork, composed of Caddoes and other tribes, harboring & protecting the thieving Indians - They were easily driven off - They were permitted to remove with their plunder; but the village was burnt -It had been a rendezvous for Indian renagados -- ______________ For September 1838 - General Dyre raised a force of 450 and moved against the Indians on the Trinity; On reaching the Sabine, he sent Capt Stout & his (Stouts) brother, to search out their villages & hiding places - Stout met only with 8 of the enemy on the Elm fork of the Trinity; one of which was killed; the others escaped - Here [----------------------------------------------------------------------] (2) the brothers parted, the Capt. moving towards the Cross Timbers, and meeting with some Kickapoos, who informed the Capt. that the Country was full of Caddoes, & advised him to go back & in haste too; which advice the Capt. took, still further induced to it by the number of signs which he every where met of the foe - he got back to the encampment of the main army, where he met his brother who had also returned without discovering much; During Stouts absence an Indian had been captured & brought into Camp. This indian informed the Texans of a villiage on the waters of the Sabine, and piloted Capt. Wm. Scurlock with 12 men to it - he found only 8 Indians in the village; naked and singing, four of whom were killed - The indian pilot, on their way back, rushed upon a Shawnee Indian, (who was friendly to the whites, & had gone with Scurlock as a pilot also) and snatching a knife from the Shawnee's belt, attempted to stab him -The shawnee parried the blow, and the assailant immediately fled; he was fired upon by several & killed. On Schurlock's return to the Camp the Army broke up and returned home except 7 or eight, Genl. Dyre, Capt. Stout, Lew. Peters, C. Johns & others, who hearing of a company of 70 men on the pilot grove |