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184 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
were not quite so bold. One company was raised for
the South and the officers elected. A man by the
name of McGee, that lived in Parker County, Texas,
was elected Captain, and a man by the name of Tucker
was elected First Lieutenant, and Mr. B. M. Henderson,
ex-sheriff of Dallas County, was elected Second
Lieutenant. I roomed with Henderson, and I
knew his family in Texas before I left for Colorado.
He was a hot secesh, and talked too much. A number
of those fellows had very long knives, nearly two
feet long, with a hole bored through the handle, and
a strong twine string tied to it, and they would practice
with those knives and boast how they would
carve Yankees with them. They would throw them
quite a distance and then pull them back with the
twine string. The company had a meeting place near
Denver, and a camp, and the night before they were
to start south in the morning, the officers went into
the city, and they were all arrested. McGee and
Tucker were put in jail. Henderson was so violent
and talked so much the guard took him to the Platt
River and ducked him. It was in November, and the
water was very cold. They put him under guard in
his wet clothes, he tried to make his escape and was
shot and killed. When this news reached the company
they were at a loss what to do. Most of them
scattered, all of them but thirty-two. That number
started South, and when they got out on the Santa
Fe trail they held up a train and robbed it. The Federals
soon got word of it and went after them and
caught them napping, and the day I reached Denver
bound for the States they were marched through
the streets with handcuffs on them. I was thinking
at one time of joining the company and coming
through to Texas, and I knew all their plans, but I
finally decided to remain in the mountains, and I
told them I could not arrange my business in time.
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/198/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.