[GH85Carrera]

I am lucky and have a lot of family history. This a partial clip of a hand written autobiography my great aunt wrote. So when she mentions her grandfather, that would be my great great grandfather. Now some of this is politically incorrect, but remember it was written by hand 100 years ago by a schoolgirl as an assignment by a girl born in the very late 1800s.

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The Indians were all over the country at the time and did not only steal their horses and cattle, but would often kill people, when they could catch them off by themselves. For this reason the white people built their houses close together and surrounded with high fences made of split logs. Grandfather said, he had seen Indians, peeping through the cracks of these logs, many times.
My grandfather lived in Walker county for 18 years. When he was a young man of 21 years, he with his parents moved to McLennan County Texas. Here he met Jan Bennett, who turned out to be my grandmother. They were married June 7, 1857. Ten children were born to this union; Burnetta, Sterling, John A. Martha Alice, Eve D. Minnie Francis, Luella, William Rush Addie C and Hugh Patrick.
Grandfather fought in the war between the States and was badly wounded in the left shoulder and arm at Pea Ridge, Arkansas. There he was picked up from the battlefield by a woman and carried to her home with three other wounded soldiers. She fed and cared for then until all were able to go to their homes. (She was a Northern woman). Grandfather finally made his way home. His left arm was useless for many years. By the time he got home the South was losing heavily and grandfather had to go back to the Services. They put him to guarding the Penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas and there he stayed until the close of the war. He was preparing to come home when he received a letter instruction him to bring some horses that this brother-in-law had loaned to a man in the vicinity. When he went after the horses the man was not a home, but grandfather got the horses anyway and started on his way. This angered the man he had Grandfather arrested and thrown in the guard house. This was a man grandfather had taken into his own home and had fed and clothed for several years. Grandfather was kept in the guard house for 5 or 6 months. Finally, one night, he managed to dig his was out with the help of the other two men. He then managed to find a friend, who put him on a horse. This friend also sent a negro with him to help him on his way as his shoulder was still causing him great pain. He arrived home in the fall of 1865 ragged, dirty and full of cooties.