Oct 19th
It is a cold morning snow upon the Mountains it is reported
that Mr Ray is vary sick & not expected to live. He is the
last Gentile Merchant in the now doing business Mr
has sold out & will soon leave for Mr
is still traiding but will work for us. An express arived
at 1 oclok P.M. Brought a letter to President from & one [FIGURE] to me from . They inform us that
Capt & his company came near being caught
in a trap by the Enemy in the following manner about day
break they came near the Enemies camp & thought they
saw a drove of mules a distance from the camp they made
a charge upon them to stampede them but as they rushed
in among them they found they were mounted men & could
not stampede mounted draggoons the capt of the company
saluted and said Capt Smith you cannot see vary well
good this morning. Capt Smith replied I can see as well as
you can with your Blind Bridles on they looked at each
other awhile the[n] Lot Smith troted off at a slow pace but the
Enemy tried to surround them & they had to gallop over a
vary rough place to get away when they got about 30 rods
off from them the[y] dis mounted & took a dead rest & shot
about 30 bullets at them one ball passed through one mans
Hat & another Ball grazed a horses leg that was all the dange
that was done they might thank the Lord for the preservation
of their lives this is the first fireing done on Either side &
this fireing was done by our Enemies, but no Blood shed
unless it was Blood from a horses leg. We got through
diging potatoes & drawing corn to day
