Toward the end of 1864, in response to attacks by Native Americans on white settlers, Christopher "Kit" Carson was ordered to take 13 officers and 246 enlisted men to attack the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, believed to be spending the winter on the south side of the Canadian River. This is an annotated account of the battle that centered around Adobe Wells, Texas, by Capt. George H. Pettis, who was part of Carson's command. Additional information concerning Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache people, and Carson himself, has been added to the original manuscript. This edition of the book contains all three of the original illustrations, rejuvenated.

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Excerpt from Personal Narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion: Kit Carson's Fight With the Comanche and Kiowa Indians The summer of 1864 Will long be remembered by our frontiersinen as a season When the Comanche, the Kiowa, the Arapahoe, the Cheyenne, and the Plain Apache held high carnival on our Western plains. From the early spring of that year, When the hardy Indian pony could subsist on the growing grass of the prairies, until late in the fall, they committed their depredations, and there was not a Week of that Whole season, but that some outrage was committed by them. They seemed to have conceived the idea that the white man could be exterminated, and by concerted action, and by striking at different points, to have fondly hoped that they could once more roam and hunt at their pleasure, free and unmolested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.