A History of Smith County, Texas Page: 39
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Republic; General Albert Sidney Johnson, Secretary of War;
and General Hugh McLeod, Adjutant General.
Al the Texans advanced, the Indians under Bowles retreated
to a point about six miles north of the house now
known as the J. Q. Edwards place (old Alf Loftin home), near
a small creek, now called Indian CreeL, in a location where
the terrain was heavily covered with switch cane Pnd about a
mile east of the Neches River, in the western part of what
is now Smith County.
General Rusk went into camp at a spring about one hundred
fifty yaras northwest of the J. Q. Edwards house, and
six miles south of the Indian encampment. The oamp of the
Texans wEs five miles southwest of the present town of Flint
and sixteen miles southwest of Tyler.
Thus located, the two armies carried on negotiations
for ten days. Bowles negotiated in order to gain time to collect
his warriors from the wild tribes, and the Texans in order
to gain time for the arrival of the two groups of reinforcements
under Burleson and Iandrum. A section known as neutral
ground was declared between the two arneies, and en agreement
was made between the commission and Bowles that neither army
was to break camp without giving notice to the other group.
A series of conferences was held between officials of each
side.14
14Albert Woldert, "The L'st of the Cherokees in Texas
and thle life an' De Sth of Chief Powles," Clhronicles of Oklahooma,
I (Julne, 1923), 213-214.
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