The soldiers' water hole

Texas · USA · Haunted site

A historical marker outside Brady, Texas stands at a water hole used by soldiers. A camp here was attacked, the wagons burned and the horses taken.

There is a historical marker outside Brady, Texas at an old water hole that was used by soldiers during the frontier wars.

The account attached holds that a party camped here overnight and was attacked, that the wagons were burned, the horses taken, and that the women and children with the party were killed.

Frontier accounts of this kind require care. They were recorded almost entirely by one side, they were used at the time to justify what was done in return, and the killing on the Texas frontier ran in both directions and far more heavily against the Comanche and Apache peoples whose country this was. What is on the marker is one version of one night.

What visitors report at the site is crying, the sound of arrows passing, and the glow of campfires among the trees.

The marker is on a public road and the water hole is still there, which is the reason a site like this stays in local memory when the settlements around it have gone.

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The soldiers' water hole liegt in Texas, USA.