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next day by volunteers from Jacksonville, our late friend, Henry
Klippel, being one of the number. Mrs. Harris lived to a good old age
in this county. Mary, who was wounded in the fight, afterwards became
the wife of Mr. G. M. Love, and was the mother of George Love of
Jacksonville and Mrs. John A. Hanley of Medford. David Harris, the
boy, was not in the house when the attack was made, but was at work on
the place. His fate has never been ascertained, as his body was never
found. The Indians stated, after peace was made, that they killed him
at the time they attacked the Harris house. Reed, the young man spoken
of, was killed out near the house.
On October 31, 1855, the battle of Hungry Hill was fought near the
present railway station of Leland. Capt. A. J. Smith of the United
States army was at that battle, and a large number of citizens
soldiery. The result of the battle was very undecisive. There were
thirty-one whites killed and wounded, nine of them being killed
outright. It is not known how many of the Indians were killed, but
after the treaty was made they confessed to fifteen. The Indians were
in heavy timber and were scarcely seen during the two days' battle.
In April, 1856, after peace had been concluded between the whites and
Indians, the Ledford massacre took place in Rancherie Prairie, near
Mount Pitt, in this county, in which five white men were killed. This
event was the last of the "irrepressible conflict." Soon afterward the
Indians were removed to the Siletz reservation, where their
descendants now live and enjoy the favors of the government which
their fathers so strongly resisted.
The war in Rogue River Valley had now virtually ended. "Old Sam's"
band, with an escort of one hundred United States troops, was taken to
the coast reservation at Siletz. Chiefs "John" and "Limpy," with a
large number of the most active warriors, who had followed their
fortunes during all these struggles, still held out and continued
their depredations in the lower Rogue River country and in connection
with the Indians of Curry County.
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