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we turned and drove for some thick bushes on our left, losing 

 another mule and two horses before reaching them, one of the 

 latter being my bay horse. He was wounded in the side, and 

 breaking the rope with which he was fastened to the waggon, he 

 galloped off, falling after going a few hundred yards. 



Our casualties were as follows : One of the Caddos had a 

 groove cut in his left arm by a bullet, and the other was hit 

 in the left arm below the elbow, but the arm was not broken. 

 One of the men was very slightly wounded in the calf of the 

 leg ; another (Brown) got a bullet through the side, six inches 

 above the hip, and although we did all we could for him, and 

 laid him in the waggon, he died just as we got into Arbuckle, 

 and everything in the waggon was saturated with blood. 



F got an arrow in the back, but not making a serious 



wound ; and I got a bullet in the right shoulder, which F 

 that evening cut out with a razor, and an arrow under the 

 knee. 



But to return : we soon got out of shot of where the Indians 

 had posted themselves, and they seemed to have had a lesson 



and left us alone. We now put one of F 's ponies and the 



Sheridan horse in harness, and got on slowly, the going being 

 very bad. The country, too, began to be more heavily wooded, 

 so that it was difficult to keep a straight course. Our two 

 Caddos had behaved bravely in the fight, standing well out in 

 front, and using their Spencer carbines with great effect, and 

 'they were now very useful in showing us the road to the fort. 

 When within about four miles of it they left, riding to meet 

 the soldiers, to show them where we were ; and shortly after- 

 wards we decided to camp, so we drove in among some scat- 

 tered trees and began to make a barricade, when it suddenly 



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