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several deserted Indian villages that they burned, and all
growing corn was cut donv and destroyed. The Indian trail
was followed for two more days and a good many Indian village
were destroyed. On the afternoon of the twenty-third
word was brought in that the Irdians had again been discovcred
drawn up in battle array. The Texans moved forward only
to find that the Indians had abandoned their position together
with much plunder, had scattered into small bands, and continued
their flight. On the twenty-fourth, the Texans were
joined by Captain lixbro and eighty volunteers from San
Augustine. That night they encaraped on the shores of a
beautiful natural lake, since called Burleson's Lake. The
scouts followed the trail of the scattered Indians, along
the south side of the Sbbine River, to the village of Chief
Harris, one of the minor chiefs, which was found Ebandoned.
This village was located about eight hundred yards southwest
of where the town of Winona is now located. On the twentyfifth,
after the scouts had returned from Harris's place and
reported the Indians to be hopelessly scattered, Secretary
of War Johnson ordered the expedition to be abandoned, and
the troops marched to their homes and mustered out, as it
looked r-s if further pursuit would be hopelessly1
Thirty-eight years later, almost to the day, a group of
young men composed of J. T. Copeland, Pen Copeland, Lum
19Albert Woldert, "The Last of the Cherokees in Texas
and the Life and Death of Chief Powles," Chronicles of OkIla
hoiaa, I (June, 1923), 218.
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Ward, William R. A History of Smith County, Texas, book, May 1944; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46834/m1/53/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .