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Texas

Governor Throckmorton's protest, reprinted by the Daily Ohio Statesman in September 1867, says soldiers acting under an arrest order surrounded a house at night and shot, bayoneted and beat people inside. A dying declaration by one of the men killed, which surviving family members corroborated, says the family surrendered when told the soldiers wanted two sons arrested. The soldiers said resistance was made and that they fired in return. The men are not named in the surviving text.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff (disputed). Governor Throckmorton's protest says soldiers shot, bayoneted and beat two people during a night raid, while the soldiers say the people resisted and they fired.

Reported by: Governor Throckmorton (protest document reprinted by the Statesman); the soldiery; surviving family members (dying declaration) (family or their lawyers).

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