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Indians could not roach. The settlement was looted and burned, the Comanches racing up and down the street, one with a bolt of red cloth tied to the tail of his pony, whooping like wild.The Indians were attacked bv the settlers on Plum Creek and so beaten as never to return a-gain to* these parts.In October of the same year Capt. Mitchell was also in the expedition to the upper Colorado where a large Comanche village was destroyed, the Indians either killed or captured. Almost KilledThere Capt. Mitchell was almost killed, when attacked by an infuriated squaw and knocked down with a club. But the captain regained his feet and grappled with the woman, one Texan yelling, “Kill her, Mitchell!” But said the captain. “Oh, no, bovs, I can’t kill a woman.’' He then wrestled the club from the squaw.In March of 1H42. Capt. Mitchell was with the Texans fielding the Mexicans under Cen. Vasquez trying to take San Antonio. Then the following Soot-ember when Gen. Woll made his attempt. Both times the invaders were chased back. Forty-two volunteers in this last battle came from Lavaca Co. Capt. Mitchell among them.In October, the same year Capt. Mitchell was with the Texans who invaded Mexico and captured Guerrero. The flag carried by Capt. Mitchell’s company was planted on the tallest hut in Carrizo village in Mexico by John Henry Brown, later the first historian of Texas. This flag remained in the Mitchell family for some time. It was made by none other than Mary Margaret Kerr, the daughter of Major Kerr. It was presented to the company on Smother’s Creek, and Patrick Usher was color bearer.
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Yoakum Herald Times
Yoakum, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1960
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