On April 26, the U.S. War Department ordered a survey of land for the first Indian reservations in unsettled Texas territory. The sites selected after consultation with the various Indian groups concerned were on the Brazos River below Fort Belknap for the use of the Caddos, Wacos, and other Indians, and another tract of the same size forty miles away for the use of the Comanches. A third tract adjoining the one on the Brazos was intended for the use of the Indians living west of the Pecos River, chiefly the Mescalero and Lipan Apaches. Both reservations reverted to the state when the Indians were removed to the Indian Territory in 1859.