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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Bold Venture. (search)
rief but brisk fight killed twenty and wounded three others. The next morning an attack was made by Lieut.. Collins on a large village, when five Indians were killed and three badly wounded. The number of warriors in this ranche was estimated at near one hundred and fifty, but they field after the first charge, leaving the troops in possession. As an evidence of further hostile movements the Humboldt Times states that thirty volunteers, for which Gen. Johnson made a requisition on Gov. Downey, to be enrolled for a term of three months, to act as guides, were mustered into the service of the United States on Wednesday, April 15th, at Humboldt. They are first-rate for service, being experienced mountaineers, having their families within the districts of counties infested by the hostile Indians. The campaign is now assuming a shape which must result in good to Captain C. S. Lovell, commanding Forts Humboldt and Gaston, and Camp Bragg has already or soon will take the field