This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DhB.2ACE/1009.2 Message Board Post: Some additional information; found at; http://www.kentuckystewarts.com/AlexanderI/IssacStewartJr.htm Disaster at Dove Creek By Phillip Rutherford for Civil War Times Illustrated Magazine Captain N.W. Gillitine and twenty-three militiamen of the Texas 2d Military District stared into the grave they had just opened. On the bottom lay a two-year-old Indian girl, dead not 48 hours. To Gillitine, she was less a dead child than the final proof he needed for an alarming report he was sending Confederate Colonel James Barry at Fort Belknap. As the soldiers kicked loose sand back into the hole, Gillitine began the communiqué that would soon lead to his own death in a battle unlike any other fought in Texas during the Civil War. . . . . . . . . (This article was written by Phillip Rutherford and originally published in Civil War Times Illustrated Magazine on February 1997.) What follows in the article is a very bone-chilling description of the battle and aftermath. again, hope this helps, Clay