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Pioneer History of L'andelra C'otlty 31
the road toward San Antonio. The help we sent for
never came. This was during the Civil Var and only
very old men and young boys were left in the homes,
and as there were only two boys at the place where
we sent for help they were afraid to come to our assistance,
as they knew the crazy man and were afraid of
him. We learned later that he reached San Antonio
and entered a home there while the family was at
supper. He turned the table upside down, and announced
that his mission "was to make angels for
God." These people called in the officers and it took
eight of them to conquer him. He was sent back to
the insane asylum and I think died there.
After this Mr. Brown took two more loads of cotton
to Eagle Pass and brought back dry goods, sugar, coffee,
etc., which he sold to the merchants in San Antrnio,
reserving what we would need ourselves. One
day while in San Antonio he was arrested and thrown
into the guard house as a deserter from Sibbley's Brigade,
when as a matter of fact he knew nothing of
this brigade. He had friends who soon secured his
release. He then began freighting for the government
to do which he had to purchase a heavy ox-wagon
that would carry a certain amount of cotton, and
drawn by three yoke of steers. HIe was to take the
cotton to Eagle Pass and bring back supplies for the
-government. He had never driven oxen before, but
started out and managed to get as far as Kincheloe
lPrairie, somewhere near Sabinal, and camped there,
, hobbled out his steers and went to sleep. Next morn-ing
he hunted his oxen but could not find them, so
had to leave his wagon on the prairie. He searched
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Hunter, J. Marvin. Pioneer history of Bandera County : seventy-five years of intrepid history, book, 1922; Bandera, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27720/m1/31/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.