The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 328
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328 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
the Tonkewa camp. He was armed with a musket which was known
to have been very heavily charged, and all, at once concluded that
the loud report they had heard was that of McMillan's piece.
None doubted that he had been killed, but as it was now too late to
return to seek him, the company camped at the edge of the prairie
until next morning, when a party returned to the Tonkewa camp
and found McMillan's lifeless body, scalped and shockingly muti-
lated. The Indians had disappeared. In the meantime Ingram
hastened to San Felipe to inform Austin of these occurences. When
he received the news Austin was highly displeased. He believed
that the settlers had been the aggressors. Not long afterwards the
Tonkewas went to San Felipe and had a "talk" with Austin who,
it is believed never greatly censured them for the part they acted
in this unfortunate affair.1
During this year Ingram was on the expedition against the
Wacoes and Tawacanies, commanded by Capt. A. C. Buckner.
In the year 1829 Ingram was a member of the San Saba
expedition under Capt. A. Kuykendall. . . . In the year 1830
Ingram was engaged in smuggling tobacco on the Rio Grande where
he had diverse and "hair-breadth scapes" . . . Ingram was at
the residence of Captain A. C. Buckner in June 1832, when that
gentleman was solicited to join the colonists of the Brazos in the
contemplated attack on the Mexican fort at Velasco. Ingram who
disapproved of the movement said all he could do to dissuade his old
friend from participating in it, and he parted with Buckner in the
belief that he had succeeded. But immediately after Ingram's
departure Buckner paid off his hired hands and made his will.
Having thus "set his house in order" he went to Velasco and was
killed. A Mexican youth whom he had partly reared, was killed in
the same action.
Sometime during this year Ingram led a party of nineteen men
in an attack on a large encampment of Carancawas on Live Oak
creek, within the present limits of Matagorda county. The party
fired on the Indians at the dawn of day, killing four or five and
dispersing the remainder (1832).
1That the Tonkewas were thievish is unquestionable, but that the course
pursued towards them by the settlers was rash and unjustifiable, is appar-
ent. A feud arose between Capt. Robt. Kuykendall and the Rabbs in con-
sequence of the strictures of the former on the conduct of the whites in
this affair.
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