Zack Waters,
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If you learn anything about "Jumper’s Seminole Battalion ordered to report to Bourland," please let me know.
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Col. James Bourland was expecting the Comanches to attack North Texas and had requested help. On Dec 21st, 1863, the Comanches attacked the settlers in Montague and Cooke Counties.
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from OFFICIAL RECORD sIv22/2[S#33]p1102.
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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY,
Doaksville, December 20, 1863.
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Brigadier-General COOPER, Commanding, &c. :
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GENERAL: I am in receipt of your communication of the 19th. The General commanding directs me to say in reply that he is not advised of the exact extent of the co-operation which is expected of him, nor of the point toward which the troops will move, should they be called upon. The object of my communication of the 18th was to apprise you of the probable movement, so that your brigade might be placed in a state of readiness for any contingency. General Steele does not desire that the troops operating in the direction of Gibson, or under Colonel Watie, should be recalled. It has already been directed that the Seminole battalion should report to Colonel Bourland, for frontier defense.
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I am, general, respectfully, your obedient servant,
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B. G. DUVAL, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
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