Captain Ford told Lt. McCord to scout up the river and kill every damned "greaser" he caught up with. The third day out our scout reported a band of Mexicans at Willow Springs [maybe Fayette County]. McCord told us to unsaddle and rest. Just before day light, we surrounded them with orders to take no prisoners. There were twenty-eight killed and ten or twelve surrendered, who were later lined up and shot. We captured forty head of horses and some arms and ammunition.
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We scouted up and down the River for about thirty-eight days, away back from Junction City [Kimble County] on the big Saline River [maybe Llano River]. We had a running fight with about twenty-five or thirty Indians in which we killed three Indians and captured about seventeen ponies, after which they scattered to the mountains.
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/GuthrieBourlandsRegtCoD.htm
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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