Tenth Cavalry Creek

Earlier the Tenth had guarded the Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache and Comanche reservation and built the post that became Fort Sill. Under President Grant's peace policy, Quaker agents there opposed force, and troops could act against roving bands only when an agent asked. Texans blamed the regiment for raids it was not allowed to stop, and Col. Benjamin Grierson was falsely accused of arming warriors, a charge Gen. William T. Sherman denied. In the Red River War of 1874 the limits came off, and the Tenth and a Ninth Cavalry battalion captured more Indians than any other regiment in the field.

What the plaque says

First called Getty's Creek, this stream was renamed by cowboys and settlers who found near its mouth, on Red River, remains of a military outpost garrisoned by the U.S. Tenth Cavalry from 1873 to 1875. Most of the Negro soldiers and white officers stationed there had previously served in the Federal army during the Civil War (1861-1865) and at Fort Sill, in Indian Territory. This staked timber outpost was attacked by Indians; legend says that all the officers, men and horses killed in the battle were buried in a common grave somewhere along this creek. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kell House Museum — 20 mi
  The 1909 Classic Revival house of Frank Kell, the miller and railroad builder who helped make Wichita Falls a city, shown by guided tour with its family furniture still in place.
• World's Littlest Skyscraper — 20 mi
  A four-story brick tower in downtown Wichita Falls, 40 feet tall and 10 feet wide, the leftover of a 1919 oil-boom office deal in which, the story goes, investors misread inches as feet.
• Lake Arrowhead State Park — 31 mi
  A prairie park on the north shore of the Wichita Falls water-supply lake, which drowned the town of Halsell in 1965-66, with mesquite campsites, a lighted pier and more than 200 bird species.

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