Indian Fight in Texas
The New-Orleans Picayune

We this morning received the annexed interesting letter from an officer of the army in Texas, to whom we tender our acknowledgments for his courtesy. It will be seen that the gallant Mounted Riflemen have been given the Indians a touch of their quality - a specimen of what be expected from them in any contest:

Fort Clarke, Texas, 18 October 1854

Editors Picayune: We have just in an express from General Smith, who was on the 10th inst. at the Limpia, the place selected by him as a post to be occupied by the 8th Infantry. Captain Walker, with a party of the regiment of Mounted Rifles, who went as an escort to the General, had a fight with the Indians, killed ten of them, and lost one man, besides Lieutenant Carr receiving an arrow wound in the stomach

On the 11th the Lipans drove off all the animals from the camp on Live Oak Creek, temporarily occupied by one company of the 1st Infantry, under command of Captain Arthur. The soldiers killed two Indians.

The New-Orleans Picayune, 1 November 1854.