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November 13, 1864 - Skirmish with Indians at Ash Creek, 12 miles from Fort Larned, KS, as the Indians attack and capture 5 wagons loaded with corn, and kill one Yankee, injuring 4.
NOVEMBER 13, 1864.--Skirmish with Indians at Ash Creek, near Fort Larned,
Kans.
Report of Capt. Theodore Conkey, Third Wisconsin Cavalry.
HDQRS.,
Fort Zarah, Kans., November 15, 1864.
SIR: I have the honor to communicate for your information that on the
night of the 13th instant, just after dark, an attack was made by a party
of Indians, supposed to be about thirty in number, upon a train of five
wagons loaded with corn for Fort Larned while in camp at Ash Creek,
twelve miles this side of that post. One man belonging to the train is
believed to be mortally wounded; the others four in number, made their
escape with the loss of their stock. This information was communicated
to me by Capt. Jacobs, in command of the post at Fort Larned, on the
afternoon of the 14th, and I immediately dispatched a scouting party up
Walnut Creek in the direction it was said the Indians had taken. This
scout proceeded thirty miles or more up the creek, but saw no signs of
Indians. The opinion prevails among men experienced in Indian
character and habits that this party was composed
principally of Pawnees, from the fact that their plundering excursions
are always made on foot, and as they were all dismounted and neglected
to scalp the wounded man, who lay directly in their path, it would seem
to confirm the opinion entertained that they were Pawnees and their
object plunder.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THEO. CONKEY,
Capt., Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Cmdg. Post.
Lieut. J. E. TAPPAN,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
[Indorsement.]
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS,
Fort Riley, Kans., November 26, 1864.
Respectfully forwarded to department headquarters for the information
of the general commanding.
The supposition of Capt. Conkey in regard to Indians being Pawnees
may not be correct, as since then Capt. Booth and Lieut.
Helliwell were attacked in same vicinity by mounted Indians, as per
report previously forwarded.
B. S. HENNING,
Maj. Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Cmdg. District.
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NOVEMBER 13, 1864.--Skirmish with Indians at Ash Creek, near Fort Larned,
Kans.
Report of Capt. Theodore Conkey, Third Wisconsin Cavalry.
HDQRS.,
Fort Zarah, Kans., November 15, 1864.
SIR: I have the honor to communicate for your information that on the
night of the 13th instant, just after dark, an attack was made by a party
of Indians, supposed to be about thirty in number, upon a train of five
wagons loaded with corn for Fort Larned while in camp at Ash Creek,
twelve miles this side of that post. One man belonging to the train is
believed to be mortally wounded; the others four in number, made their
escape with the loss of their stock. This information was communicated
to me by Capt. Jacobs, in command of the post at Fort Larned, on the
afternoon of the 14th, and I immediately dispatched a scouting party up
Walnut Creek in the direction it was said the Indians had taken. This
scout proceeded thirty miles or more up the creek, but saw no signs of
Indians. The opinion prevails among men experienced in Indian
character and habits that this party was composed
principally of Pawnees, from the fact that their plundering excursions
are always made on foot, and as they were all dismounted and neglected
to scalp the wounded man, who lay directly in their path, it would seem
to confirm the opinion entertained that they were Pawnees and their
object plunder.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THEO. CONKEY,
Capt., Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Cmdg. Post.
Lieut. J. E. TAPPAN,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
[Indorsement.]
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS,
Fort Riley, Kans., November 26, 1864.
Respectfully forwarded to department headquarters for the information
of the general commanding.
The supposition of Capt. Conkey in regard to Indians being Pawnees
may not be correct, as since then Capt. Booth and Lieut.
Helliwell were attacked in same vicinity by mounted Indians, as per
report previously forwarded.
B. S. HENNING,
Maj. Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Cmdg. District.
