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an escort of fifty men all volunteers, the Comanche Indians being at war. I reached the Pawnee Rock without any difficulty, I pitched my camp there about 300 yards from another company? of volunteers who were en route for New Mexico and who had a very long train of wagons with them. at day light the next day the men of the company lead out their horses to picket? them in the new grass when they were attacked by a party of Comanches and had 26 horses and