INDEX
Abbott, James B: [204], footnote, [236], footnote
Abel, Annie Heloise: work cited in footnotes on pages [14], [57], [75], [85], [172], [183], [190], [226], [241], [260]
Absentee Shawnees: [205], footnote
Acadians: removal of, [304], footnote
Adair, W. P: [268], footnote, [277], footnote, [326] and footnote
Adams, C. W: [333]
Ah-pi-noh-to-me: [108], footnote
Aldrich, Cyrus: [225], footnote, [229], footnote
Alexander, A. M: [267], footnote
Allen's Battery: [146]
Allen County (Kans.): [82], footnote
Aluktustenuke: [94], footnote, [108], footnote
Amnesty Proclamation: [322]
Anderson, Mrs. Mabel Washbourne: work cited in footnotes on pages [127], [130], [138], [194], [197], [271], [272], [288]
Anderson, S. S: [265], footnote
Arapahoes: [274], footnote
Arizona Territory: [61]-62
Arkadelphia (Ark.): [261]
Arkansans: circulate malicious stories about Pike, [160], footnote; lawless, [264]; unable to decide arbitrarily about Indian movements, [326]
Arkansas: regards McCulloch as defender, [15]; Van Dora's requisition for troops, [25]; Federals occupy northern, [34]; Pike to call for aid, [36]; attack from direction of, expected, [48]; left in miserable plight by Van Dorn, [128]; army men exploited Pike's command, [150]; R.W. Johnson serves as delegate from, [175]; R.W. Johnson becomes senator from in the First Congress, [176]; Thomas B. Hanly, representative from, introduces bill for establishment of Indian superintendency, [176]; disagreeable experiences of Indians in, [177]; Pike recommends separation of Indian Territory from both Texas and, [179]; unsafe to leave interests of Indian Territory subordinated to those of, [246]; political squabbles in, [249], footnote; Indian Home Guards not intended for use in, [259]; privilege of writ of habeas corpus suspended, [269]; Blunt and Curtis want possession of western counties, [325]
Arkansas and Red River Superintendency: [181]; territorial limits, [177]; officials, [177]-178; restrictions upon Indians and white men, [178]; Pike recommends organization, [179]; Cooper seeks appointment as superintendent, [179]
Arkansas Military Board: [15], [16]
Arkansas Post (Ark.): loss of, [270]
Arkansas River: mentioned, [165], [192], [194], [216], [268], footnote, [272], footnote, [295]; Pike's headquarters near junction with Verdigris, [22]; Pike to call troops to prevent descent, [36]; Indian refugees reach, [85]; Indians flee across, [135]; Campbell to examine alleged position of enemy south, [136]; Federals in possession of country north of, [198]; Stand Watie and Cooper pushed below, [220]; Phillips to hold line of, [251]; Schofield desires control of entire length of course, [260]; Blunt patrolling, [293]; Stand Watie to move down, to vicinity of Fort Smith,
[271], footnote; Osages, Pottawatomies, Cheyennes, and others to gather on, 274-275, footnote; natural line of defence, [315]; seizure of supply boat on, [327]
Arkansas State Convention: [16]
Arkansas Volunteers: [60], footnote
Armstrong Academy (Okla.): meeting of Indian General Council at, [317]; unfortunate delay of Scott in reaching, [320]; Southern Indians renew pledge of loyalty to Confederate States at, [323]
Army of Frontier: under Blunt, [196]; regiments of Indian Home Guards part of, [196]; encamps on old battlefield of Pea Ridge, [197]; gradual retrogression into Missouri, [219], footnote; District of Kansas to be separated from, [248]
Atchison and Pike's Peak Railway Company: [230]
Atrocities: Pike charged with giving countenance to, [30]-31, [31], footnote; degree of Pike's responsibility for, [32]; repudiated by Cherokee National Council, [32]-33; become subject of correspondence between opposing generals, [33]; charged against Indians at Battle of Wilson's Creek, [34], footnote; forbidden by Van Dorn, [36]; guerrilla, [44]; influenced Halleck regarding use of Indian soldiers, [102]; at Battle of Newtonia, [195]; Blunts army accused of, [248], footnote; Stand Watie's men commit, [332]
Badeau, Adam: work cited, [96], footnote
Baldwin, A.H: [235], footnote
Bankhead, S.P: given command of Northern Sub-District of Texas, [286]; Steele applies for assistance, [290]; fails to appear, [291]; dissatisfaction with, [306], footnote
Barren Fork (Okla.): skirmish on, [312]
Bartles, W.L: [237], footnote
Bass's Texas Cavalry: [276], footnote, [303], footnote, [306], footnote
Bassett, Owen A: [123], footnote
Bates County (Mo.): [58], [304], footnote
Baxter Springs (Kans.): location, [121], [125], footnote; Weer leaves Salomon and Doubleday at, [121]; Indian encampment at, [125], [129]; negro regiment sent to, [259], [284]; commissary train expected, [291]; massacre at, [304]
Bayou Bernard: [163]-164
Beauregard, Pierre G.T: devises plans for bringing Van Dorn east, [14], footnote, [34]; Hindman takes command under order of, [127], [186], footnote, [190]
Belmont (Kansas.): [274], footnote
Benge, Pickens: [132]
Benjamin, Judah P: [22], [23], footnote, [24], footnote, [175], footnote
Bennett, Joseph: [269], footnote
Bentonville (Ark.): [29], [216]
Big Bend of Arkansas: [73], footnote, [274], footnote
Big Blue Reserve: [235], footnote
Big Hill Camp: [237], footnote
Big Mountain: [148], footnote
Billy Bowlegs: [68], footnote, [108], footnote, [228], footnote
Biographical Congressional Directory: work cited, [59], footnote, [70], footnote
Bishop, Albert Webb: work cited, [219], footnote
Black Beaver Road: [67], footnote
Black Bob: [235], footnote, [236], footnote
Black Bob's Band: [204]; to be distinguished from Absentee Shawnees, [204]-205, footnote; lands raided by guerrillas, 205
Black Dog: [263], footnote
Blair, Francis P: [49]
Blair, W.B: [290], footnote
Bleecker, Anthony: [41], footnote
Blue River (Okla.): [110]
Blunt, James G: learns of designs of Drew's Cherokees, [33]; avenges burning of Humboldt, [53]; succeeds Denver at Fort Scott, [98]; in command of reëstablished Department of Kansas, [106]; reverses policy of Halleck and Sturgis, [106]-107 and footnote; promotion objected to, [107], footnote; ideas on necessary equipment of Indian soldiers, [109]; Weer reports on subject of Cherokee relations, [136]; forbids Weer to make incursion into adjoining states, [139]; orders white troops to support Indian Brigade, [192]-193; in charge of Army of Frontier, [196]; plans Second Indian Expedition, [196] and footnotes; promises to return refugees to homes, [196], footnote, [203]; opinion touching profiteering, [208], [210]-211; issue between, and Coffin, [210]-211 and footnote; promises return home to refugee Cherokees, [213]; vigorous policy, [218]; achievements discounted by Schofield, [248], [249]; accusation of brutal murders and atrocities, [248], footnote; makes headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, [249]; wishes Phillips to advance, [254], [257]; advancement of Schofield obnoxious to, [260]; undertakes to go to Fort Gibson, [261], [286]; in command of District of Frontier, [286]; victorious at Honey Springs, [288]-289; decides to assume offensive, [293]; no faith in Indian soldiery, [294]; transfers effects from Fort Scott to Fort Smith, [304]; relieved by McNeil, [305]; summoned to Washington for conference, [322] and footnote; restored to command, [324]; controversy with Thayer, [324]
Bob Deer: [68], footnote
Boggs, W.R: [286], footnote
Boggy Depot (Okla.): [162], [284], [295], footnote, [296] and footnote
Bogy, Lewis V: [235], footnote
Bonham (Texas): [302]-303
Boston Mountains: McCulloch and Price retreating towards, [26], footnote; to push Confederate line northward of, [192]
Boudinot, Elias C: Cherokee delegate in Confederate Congress, [180]; submits proposals to Cherokees, [279]; active in Congress, [299], footnote; coadjutor of Cooper and relative of Stand Watie, [300]; Steele forwards letter from, [307], footnote; Steele believes, responsible for opposition, [311]; urges plan of brigading upon Davis, [317]; suggests attaching Indian Territory to Missouri, [317], footnote, [318], [321], footnote; reports to Davis, [321]
Bourland, James: [312], footnote
Bowman, Charles S: [108]
Branch, H.B: [48], footnote, 51, footnote, 74, footnote, 116; charges against, 234, footnote
Breck, S: [324], footnote
Britton, Wiley: work cited in footnotes on pages [20], [22], [30], [35], [50], [51], [52], [55], [113], [118], [126], [131], [132], [146], [194], [196], [197], [198], [216], [218], [237], [249], [250], [257], [260], [271], [273]
Brooken Creek (Okla.): [295], footnote
Brooks, William: [46], footnote, [47], footnote
Brown, E.B: [119], footnote, [127]
Brown, John: [42], footnote
Browne, William M: [172], footnote
Bryan, G.M: [292], footnote
Buchanan, James: [41], [70], footnote
Buffalo Hump: [65], footnote
Burbank, Robert: [77], footnote
Bureau of Indian Affairs: created in Confederate War Dept, [172] and footnote
Burlington (Kans.): [80]
Burns, Robert: [26]
Bushwhackers: [125], [236], footnote, [239], footnote, [260], [266], footnote
Buster, M.W: [194], footnote
Cabell, A.S: 270, footnote
Cabell, W.L: [277], footnote, [284] and footnote, [287], [289], [292], [297]
Cabin Creek (Okla.): [131], [283]-286 and footnote, [332]
Caddoes: reported loyal to U.S., [66], footnote; in First Indian Expedition, [115], footnote; encamped at Big Bend, [274], footnote
Calhoun, James S: [260], footnote
Camden Campaign (Ark.): [326]-327
Cameron, Simon: [56], [60], footnote, [72]
Camp Bowen: [219], footnote
Camp Imochiah: [288], footnote
Camp Quapaw: [146]
Camp Radziwintski (Radziminski?): [153]
Camp Ross, [255]
Campbell, A.B: [81]
Campbell, W.T: sent to reconnoitre, [136]; halts at Fort Gibson, [136]
Canadian River: [129], [162], [164], [293], [327]
Canby, E.R.S: [335]
Cane Hill (Ark.): [28], footnote, [218]
Cantonment Davis (Okla.): established as Pike's headquarters, [22]; Indians gather at, [27]; Cooper at, [169]; Cooper's force flee to, [198]
Carey's Ferry (Okla.): [192]
Carey's Ford (Okla.): [126]
Carney, Thomas: [211], footnote; named as suitable commissioner, [233], footnote
Carr, Eugene A: [30], footnote
Carriage Point: [111], footnote
Carrington, W.T: [296], footnote
Carruth, E.H: teacher among Indians, [59], [64], footnote; furthers plan for inter-tribal council, [69]; suspected of stirring up Indian refugees against Coffin, [87]-88 and footnote; refugee Creeks want as agent, [89]; satisfied with appointment to Wichita Agency, [89]; sent on mission, [122] and footnote, [133]; in Cherokee Nation, [195], footnote; disapproves of attempting return of refugees, [209]; Martin and, arrange for inter-tribal council, [273]-275, footnote
Carter, J.C: [208], footnote
Cass County (Mo.): [304], footnote
Cassville (Mo.): [293]
Century Company's War Book: work cited, [13], footnote
Central Superintendent: [116]-117
Chapman, J.B: [222] and footnote, [229], footnote
Chap-Pia-Ke: [69], footnote
Charles Johnnycake: [64], footnote
Chatterton, Charles W: [214], footnote
Cherokee Brigade: [309]
Cherokee country: [193], [194]
Cherokee Delegate: [111], footnote, [180]
Cherokee Expedition: [73], footnote
Cherokee Nation: [47], footnote, [74], footnote, [111], footnote; Clarkson to take command of all forces within, [130]; future attitude under consideration, [133]; Weer suggests resumption of allegiance to U.S., [134]; Weer proposes abolition of slavery by vote, [134], footnote; intention to remain true to Confederacy, [135]; cattle plentiful, [145]; Hindman designs to stop operations of wandering mercantile companies, [156]; maintenance of order necessary, [192]; archives and treasury seized, [193]; Carruth and Martin in, [195], footnote; Delaware District of, [197]; deplorable condition of country, [217]; Boudinot, delegate in Congress from, [299], footnote; Quantrill and his band pass into, [304]
Cherokee National Council: ratifies treaty with Confederacy, [28], footnote; opposed to atrocities, [32]-33; resolutions against atrocities, [33]; assemblies, [255]-256, legislative work, [256]-257; Federal victory at
Webber's Falls prevents convening, [271] and footnote; passage of bill relative to feeding destitute Indians, [277], footnote; adopts resolutions commendatory of Blunt's work, [305], footnote; Stand Watie proposes enactment of conscription law, [329]
Cherokee Neutral Lands (Kans.): 47, footnote, [53], [121], [125], footnote; refugee Cherokees collect on, [213]; refugees refuse to vacate, 214; Pomeroy advocates confiscation of, [224]; John Ross and associates ready to consider retrocession of, [231]-232 and footnote
Cherokee Strip (Kans.): [79]
Cherokee Treaty with Confederacy: ratified by National Council, [28], footnote; Indians stipulated to fight in own fashion, [32]
Cherokees: unwilling to have Indian Territory occupied by Confederate troops, [15]; civil war impending, [29]; disturbances stirred up by bad white men, [47], footnote, [48]; effect of Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek, [49]; attitude towards secession, [63], footnote; in First Indian Expedition, [115], footnote; driven from country, 116; flee across Arkansas River, [135]; exasperated by Pike's retirement to confines of Indian Territory, [159]; outlawed, participate in Wichita Agency tragedy, [183]; demoralizing effect of Ross's departure, [193]; secessionist, call convention, [193]; should be protected against plundering, [195], footnote; refugee, on Drywood Creek, [209], footnote, [213]; repudiate alliance with Confederacy, [232]; approached by Steele through medium of necessities, [276]; charge Confederacy with bad faith, [279]-281; asked to give military land grants to white men in return for protection, [279]-281; Blunt thinks superior to Kansas tribes, 294; intent upon recovery of Fort Gibson, 311; troops pass resolution of reënlistment for war, [328]-329
Chicago Tribune: [75], footnote
Chickasaw Battalion: [152], [155]; Tonkawas to furnish guides for, [184], footnote
Chickasaw Home Guards: [184], footnote
Chickasaw Legislature: [306], footnote, [329], footnote
Chickasaw Nation: Pike arrested at Tishomingo, [200]; funds drawn upon for support of John Ross and others, [215], footnote; Phillips communicates with governor, [323], footnote
Chickasaws: discord within ranks, [29]; attitude towards secession, [63], footnote; delegation of, and Creeks, and Kininola, [65], footnote; plundered by Osages and Comanches, [207], footnote; refugee, given temporary home, [213]; dissatisfied with Cooper, 265, footnote; disperse, [323]
Chiekies: [66], footnote
Chillicothe Band of Shawnees: [236], footnote
Chilton, W.P: [173], footnote
Chipman, N.P: [207], footnote
Chippewas: [212]
Choctaw and Chickasaw Battalion: [25], [32]
Choctaw Battalion: [152], [155]
Choctaw Council: considers Blunt's proposals, [302]; disposition towards neutrality, [306], footnote; Phillips sends communication to, [323], footnote
Choctaw Militia: [311]-312, [312], footnote
Choctaw Nation: Pike withdraws into, [110]; Robert M. Jones, delegate from, in Congress, [299], footnote; proposed conscription within, [328]
Choctaws: discord bred by unscrupulous merchants, [29]; attitude
towards secession, [63], footnote; refugee, given temporary home, [213]; waver in allegiance to South, [220]; sounded by Phillips, [254]; little recruiting possible while Fort Smith is in Confederate hands, [258]-259; Steele entrusts recruiting to Tandy Walker, [265]; no tribe so completely secessionist as, [290]; protest against failure to supply with arms and ammunition, [301]; proposals from Blunt known to have reached, [302]; cotton, [308]-309, footnote; bestir themselves as in first days of war, [311]; principal chief opposes projects of Armstrong Academy council, [321]; want confederacy separate and distinct from Southern, [321], footnote; do excellent service in Camden campaign, [326]
Choo-Loo-Foe-Lop-Hah Choe: talk, [68], footnote; signature, [69], footnote
Chouteau's Trading House: [329], footnote
Christie: [305], footnote
Chustenahlah (Okla.): [79]
Cincinnati Gazette: [58], footnote, [88], footnote
Clarimore: [238], footnote
Clark, Charles T: [82], footnote
Clark, George W: [158] and footnote
Clark, Sidney: [104], footnote
Clarke, G.W: [22]
Clarkson, J.J: assigned to supreme command in northern part of Indian Territory, [129]-130; applies for permission to intercept trains on Santa Fé road, [129], footnote; at Locust Grove, [131]; surprised in camp, [131], footnote; made prisoner, [132]; Pike's reference to, [158]; placed in Cherokee country, [159], footnote
Clarksville (Ark.): [287]-288, footnote
Clay, Clement C: [176], footnote
Cloud, William F: [193], [297]
Cochrane, John: [56]-57
Coffee, J.T: [113] and footnote, [125]
Coffin, O.S: letter, [82] and footnote
Coffin, S.D: [208]
Coffin, William G: testifies to disturbances among Osages, [46], footnote; pays visit to ruins of Humboldt, [54], footnote; plans for inter-tribal council, [69]; orders countermanded for enlistment of Indians, [77]; learns of refugees in Kansas, [80]; compelled by settlers to seek new abiding-place for refugees, [86]; refugees lodge complaint against, [87] and footnote; military enrollment of Indians conducted under authority of Interior Department, [105] and footnote; applies for new instructions regarding First Indian Expedition, [105]; dispute with Elder, [116]-117, [207], footnote; anxious to have Osage offer accepted by refugee Creeks, [207]-208, footnote; disapproves of Blunt's plan for early return of refugees, [209]; issue between Blunt and, [210]-211; contract with Stettaner Bros. approved by Dole, [211], footnote; urges removal of refugees to Sac and Fox Agency, [212]; visits refugee Cherokees on Neutral Lands, [213]; details Harlan and Proctor to care for refugee Cherokees at Neosho, [214]; drafts Osage treaty of cession, [229]; suggests location for Indian colonization, [233]; would reward Osage massacrers, [238], footnote; prevails upon Jim Ned to stop jayhawking, [274], footnote
Colbert, Holmes: [207], footnote
Colbert, Winchester: [184], footnote
Coleman, Isaac: [209]
Collamore, George W: career, [87], footnote; investigation into condition of refugees, [87], footnote
Colorado Territory: likely to be menaced by Southern Indians, [61]; conditions in, [61], footnote; recruiting officers massacred by Osages,
[238], footnote; political squabbles in, [249], footnote; harassed by Indians of Plains, [320]; made part of restored Department of Kansas, [321]
Comanches: Pike's negotiation with, [63], footnote, [65], footnote, [173], footnote; peaceable and quiet, [112]; this side of Staked Plains friendly, [153]; Osages and, plunder Chickasaws, [207], footnote; reported encamped at Big Bend, [274], footnote
Confederates: disposition to over-estimate size of enemy, [30], footnote; defeat at Pea Ridge decisive, [34]; should concentrate on saving country east of Mississippi, [34]; retreat from Pea Ridge, [35]; possible to fraternize with Federals, [44]; victorious at Drywood Creek, [51]-52; in vicinity of Neosho, [127]; no forces at hand to resist invasion of Indian Territory, [147]; defeat at Locust Grove counted against Pike, [161]; Cherokee country abandoned to, [193]; in possession as far north as Moravian Mission, [194]; victory at Newtonia, [194]-195 and footnotes; ill-success on Cowskin River and at Shirley's Ford, [197]; flee to Cantonment Davis, [198]; officers massacred by Osages, [237]-238, footnote; grants to Indian Territory, 250; foraging and scouting occupy, [253]; distributing relief to indigents, [258]
Congress, Confederate: authorizes Partisan Rangers, [112]; Arkansas delegates testify to Van Dorn's aversion for Indians, [148], footnote; act of regulating intercourse with Indians, [169]; act for establishing Arkansas and Red River Superintendency, [177]-178; concedes rights and privileges to Indian delegates, [299], footnote
Congress, United States: [71], [76], footnote, [86] and footnote, [99]; circumstances of refugees well-aired in, [209]; gives president discretionary power for relief of refugees, [209]; Osages memorialize for civil government, [229] and footnote; act authorizing negotiations with Indian tribes, [231]; decides to relieve Kansas of Indian encumbrance, [294]
Connelley, William E: work cited, [42] and footnotes on pages [51], [101], [205], [239]
Conway, Martin F: [72], footnote, [88], footnote, [107], footnote
Cooley, D.N: [205], footnote
Cooper, Douglas H: colonel of First Regiment Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, [25]; communicates with Pike, [29], footnote; objects to keeping Indians at home, [31], footnote; arrives at Camp Stephens, [32], [35]; protects baggage train on way to Elm Springs, [35]; recommends Indians as guerrillas, [112]; ordered to repair to country north of Canadian River, [129], [154]; orders Indian leaders to report at Fort Davis, [137]; regiment goes out of service, [153]; views on employment of Indians, [159] and footnote; Pike to hand over command to, [162]; transmits Pike's circular, [167], [169]; orders arrest of Pike, [169]; calls for troops from all Indian nations, [174], footnote; seeks to become superintendent of Indian affairs, [179]; appointment withheld because of inebriety, [181]; to attempt to reënter southwest Missouri, [194]; after Battle of Newtonia obliged to fall back into Arkansas, [197]; under orders from Rains, plans invasion of Kansas, [197]; defeated in Battle of Fort Wayne, [197]-198; in disgrace, [198]; Steele preferred to, [246]; not ranking officer of Steele, [247], footnote, [300], footnote; force poorly equipped, [248], footnote;
apparently bent upon annoying Steele, [265]; can get plenty of beef, [272]; influences to advance, at expense of Steele, [278], [306] and footnote; orders Stand Watie to take position at Cabin Creek, [284]-285; ammunition worthless at Honey Springs, [288]; Boudinot and, intrigue together, [300]; headquarters at Fort Washita, [303], footnote; manifests great activity in own interests, [303]; Quantrill and band reach camp of, [304]; plans recovery of Fort Smith, [309]; opposed to idea of separating white auxiliary from Indian forces, [310]; raises objection to two brigade idea, [316]; Boudinot and, advise formation of three distinct Indian brigades, [317]; placed in command of all Indian troops in Trans-Mississippi Department on borders of Arkansas, [319]; declared subordinate to Maxey, [319]; begins work of undermining Maxey, [333]-334
Cooper, S: [29], footnote, [128], footnote
Corwin, David B: [144]
Corwin, Robert S: [231], footnote
Cottonwood River (Kans.): [85], footnote
Cowskin Prairie (Mo. and Okla.): Stand Watie's engagement at, [113]; encampment on, [119], [120], footnote; affair at, erroneously reported as Federal victory, [119], footnote; Round Grove on, [126]; scouts called in at, [138]
Cowskin River: [197]
Crawford, John: [48], [214], footnote
Crawford, Samuel J: work cited, [101], footnote, [194], footnote, [197], footnote; at Battle of Fort Wayne, [197]
Creek and Seminole Battalion: [25]
Creek Nation: [62], footnote, [111], footnote; Clarkson to take command of all forces within, [130]; Pike negotiates treaty with, [173], footnote
Creeks: delegation of, and Chickasaws and Kininola seek help at Leroy, [65], footnote; desert Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la, [76], footnote; constitute main body of refugees in Kansas, [81]; compose First Regiment Indian Home Guards, [114] and footnote; company authorized by Pike, [173], footnote; refugee, offered home by Osages, [207] and footnote; refugee, given temporary home by Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi, [213]; unionist element attempts tribal re-organization, [228]; views regarding accommodation of other Indians upon lands, [233]; Senate ratifies treaty with, [234]; reject treaty, [235]; Phillips sounds, [254]; Phillips learns that defection has begun, [256]; refuse to charge, [272]; nature and extent of disaffection among, [272]-273 and footnote; address Davis, [278]; bad conduct complained of by Steele, [285], footnote; inevitable effect of Battle of Honey Springs upon, [290]; Blunt's offensive and Steele's defensive, [301]; proposals of Blunt known to have reached, [302]; disperse among fastnesses of mountains, [323]
Cross Timber Hollow (Ark.): [30], footnote
Currier, C.F: [67], footnote
Curtis, Samuel R: in charge of Southwestern District of Missouri, [26]-27; estimate of number of troops contributed by Pike, [30], footnote; instructed to report on Confederate use of Indians, [33], footnote; victory at Pea Ridge complete, [34]; surmise with respect to movements of Stand Watie and others, [120], footnote; resents insinuations against military capacity of Blunt and Herron, [249]; Lane opposed to Gamble, Schofield, and, [249], footnote; regrets sacrifice of red men
in white man's quarrel, [250]; calls for Phillips to return, [259]; succeeded by Schofield, [260]; in command of restored Department of Kansas, [321]; arrives at Fort Gibson, [324]
Cutler, George A: council held at Leroy by, [62], footnote; at Fort Leavenworth, [74], footnote; ordered by Lane to transfer council to Fort Scott, [74], footnote; reports Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la in distress, [76], footnote; refugees complain of treatment, 87; approves of early return of refugees, [209]; calls Creek chiefs to consider draft of treaty, [233]
Dana, Charles A: [126], footnote, 324, footnote
Danley, C.C: [15]
Davis, Jefferson: work cited, [14], footnote; urged to send second general officer out, [15]-16; McCulloch's sacrifice of Confederate interests in Missouri reported to, [18]; unfavorable to Price and to his method of fighting, [18]-19; report of Pike submitted to, [21]; Cooper, in name of, orders Ross to issue proclamation calling for fighting men, [137]; correspondence with Pike, [167]-168; recommends creation of bureau of Indian affairs, [172]; appoints Pike diplomatic agent to Indian tribes, [173], footnote; signs bill for establishment of southern superintendency, [176]; Pike makes important suggestions to, [179]; offers explanation for non-payment of Indian moneys, [179], footnote; inconsistentcy of, [187]; refusal to accept Pike's resignation, [190]; orders adjutant-general to accept Pike's resignation, [200]; lack of candor in explaining matters to Holmes, [269]; Creeks address, [278]; replies to protest from Flanagin, [287], footnote; opposed to surrendering part to save whole, [297], footnote; considers resolutions of Armstrong Academy council, [317]; addresses Indians through principal chiefs, [318] and footnote; objects making Indian Territory separate department, [318]-319; knowledge of economic and strategic importance of Indian Territory, [331]
Davis, John S: [80], footnote
Davis, William P: [80], footnote
Dawson, C.L: [150], footnote, [152], [153], [154], footnote
Deitzler, George W: [97], footnote
Delahay, M.W: [222], footnote
Delaware Reservation (Kans.): location, [206]; store of Carney and Co. on, [211], footnote
Delawares: interview of Dole with, [77], footnote; in First Indian Expedition, [113], footnote, [115], footnote; from Cherokee country made refugees, [116], [206]; wandering, implicated in tragedy at Wichita Agency, [183]; eager to enlist, [207]; request removal of Agent Johnson and Carney and Co. from reservation, [211], footnote; wild, involved in serious trouble with Osages, [274], footnote
Democratic Party: [47], footnote
De Morse, Charles: [266], footnote, [330], footnote
Denver, James W: career, [70]; popular rejoicing over prospect of recall, [72], footnote; learns of presence of refugees in Kansas, [80]; assigned by Halleck to command of District of Kansas, [97]; Lane and Pomeroy protest against appointment, [97]; later movements, [98] and footnote; coöperates with Steele and Coffin to advance preparations for First Indian Expedition, [102]; removal from District of Kansas inaugurated "Sturgis' military despotism," [104]
Department no. 2: [19]
Department of Arkansas: [322]
Department of Indian Territory: Pike in command, [20]; relation to other military units, 21; Pike deplores absorption of, [151]; Pike's appointment displeasing to Elias Rector, [181], footnote; created at suggestion from Pike, [189]
Department of Kansas: Hunter in command, [27], [61], [70]; consolidated with Department of Missouri, [96]; reëstablished, [106] and footnote; Blunt assigned to command, [106], [118]; restored, Curtis in command, [321]
Department of Mississippi: [96], [105]
Department of Missouri: Halleck in command, [27], [61]; consolidated with Department of Kansas, [96]
Department of Mountain: [96]
Department of Potomac: [96]
Department of West: [27], [61]
De Smet, Father: [234]
De Soto (Kans.): [236], footnote
Dickey, M.C: [226] and footnote
District of Arkansas: Hindman in command, [192]; Price in command during illness of Holmes, [299], footnote; Price succeeds Holmes, [326]
District of Frontier: Blunt in command, [286]; McNeil relieves Blunt, [305]; Schofield institutes investigation, [305], footnote
District of Kansas: Denver assigned to command of, [97]; Sturgis assigned to, [98]; checks progress of First Indian Expedition, [105]; Schofield advises complete separation from Army of Frontier, [248]; re-constituted with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, [249]
District of Texas: 306, footnote, [318], footnote
Dole, R.W: [74], footnote, [114], footnote
Dole, William P: [53], footnote, [54], footnote; absent on mission to West, [60]; submits new evidence of serious state of affairs among Indians, [61]; authority of U.S. over Indians to be maintained, 61; Lane's plans appeal to, [72]-73; disappointed over Stanton's reversal of policy for use of Indian troops, [76]; countermands orders for enlistment of Indians, [77]; warned that army supplies to refugees to be discontinued, [83]; Coffin and Ritchie apply for new instructions regarding First Indian Expedition, [105]-106; reports adversely upon subject of Lane's motion, [223]; motives considered, [225]; submits views on Pomeroy's project for concentration of tribes, [230], footnote; undertakes mission to West, [234]; treaties made by, [234] et seq.; detained by Delawares and by Quantrill's raid upon Lawrence, [238]-239 and footnote; negotiates with Osages at Leroy, [239] and footnote; treaties impeachable, [241]
Dorn, Andrew J: mentioned, [263], footnote, [264], footnote; avowed secessionist, [47], footnote
Doubleday, Charles: [114], footnote; colonel of Second Ohio Cavalry, [118]; Weer to supersede, [119]; proposes to attempt to reach Fort Gibson, [119]; desirous of checking Stand Watie, [119]; indecisive engagement on Cowskin Prairie, [119] and footnote; ordered not to go into Indian Territory, [120]; left at Baxter Springs by Weer, [121]
Downing, Lewis: [231], footnote, [255], [256]
Drew, John: dispersion of regiment, [24], [132]; movements of men at Pea Ridge, [32]; finds refuge at Camp Stephens, [35]; authorized to furlough men, [111], footnote; regiment stationed in vicinity of Park Hill, [111], footnote; desires
Clarkson placed in Cherokee country, [159], footnote
Drywood Creek (Kans.): Federal defeat at, [51] and footnote; Price breaks camp at, [52], footnote; fugitive Indians on, [195], footnote, [209], footnote; Cherokee camp raided by guerrillas, [213]-214
Du Bose, J.J: [288], footnote
Duval, B.G: [266], footnote
Dwight's Mission: [217]
East Boggy (Okla.): [296]
Eaton, Rachel Caroline: work cited, [257], footnote
Echo Harjo: [278], footnote
Edgar County (Ill.): [84], footnote
Edwards, John Newman: work cited in footnotes on pages [14], [151], [194], [198]
Elder, Peter P: [48], footnote, [204]; makes Fort Scott headquarters of Neosho Agency, [50]; disputes with Coffin, [116]-117, [207], footnote; prevails upon Ottawas to extend hospitality to refugees, [213], footnote; suspicious of Coffin, [229]
Elk Creek (Okla.): Kiowas select home on, [153]; Cooper encamps on, [287], footnote
Elkhorn Tavern (Ark.): [30] and footnote
Ellithorpe, A.C: [105], footnote, [115], footnote, [131], footnote; with detachment at Vann's Ford, [144]; disapproves of attempting to return refugees at early date, [209]-211 and footnote; complains of Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la, [219], footnote; opinion about Indian Home Guards, [251]
Elm Springs (Ark.): [35]
El Paso (Tex.): [48]
Emancipation Proclamation: Frémont's, [57]; Lincoln's, [234]
Evansville (Ark.): [28]
Ewing, Thomas: [304], footnote, [321], footnote
"Extremists": [305], footnote
Fairhaven (Mass.): [31], footnote
Fall River (Kans.): [79], [81], [82], footnote, [84]-85, [273], footnote
False Wichita (Washita) River (Okla.): [153]
Farnsworth, H.W: [205], footnote, [236], footnote
Fayetteville (Ark.): [28], footnote, [256]; battle of, [218], footnote
Federals: early encounter with, anticipated by Van Dorn, [20]; expulsion from Missouri planned by Van Dorn, [26]; drive back Confederates under McCulloch and Price, [26]; disposition to over-estimate number of enemy, [30], footnote; attempt to recover battery seized by Indians at Leetown, [31]; in occupation of northern Arkansas, [34]; defeat at Wilson's Creek, [49]; defeat at Drywood Creek, [51]-52 and footnote; showing unwonted vigor on northeastern border of Cherokee country, [112], footnote; flight, [113], footnote; Stand Watie on watch for, [130]; defeat in Battle of Newtonia, [194]-195 and footnotes; direct efforts towards arresting Hindman's progress, [218]; grants to Indian Territory, [250]; foraging and scouting, [253]; in possession of Fort Smith, [290]; Steele places drive from Fort Smith to Red River, [311]; fail to pursue Stand Watie, [312]
First Choctaw Regiment: under Col. Sampson Folsom, [152]; ordered to Fort Gibson, [155]; men unanimously reënlist for duration of war, [328]; demands, [328]
First Creek Regiment: commanded by D.N. McIntosh, [25]; men gather at Cantonment Davis, [27]; two hundred men gather at Camp Stephens, [32]; about to make extended scout westward, [112]; under orders to advance up Verdigris toward Santa Fé road, [152]
First Indian Brigade: [327]
First Indian Expedition: had beginnings in Lane's project, [41]; revival of interest in, [99]; Denver, Steele, and Coffin coöperate to advance, [102]; arms go forward to Leroy and Humboldt, [102]; time propitious for, [103]; policy of Sturgis not yet revealed, [103]-104; Steele, Denver, and Wright in dark regarding, [103], footnote; Steele issues order against enlistment of Indians, [105]; vigor restored by re-establishment of Department of Kansas, [106]; orders for resuming enlistment of Indians, [106]-107; organization proceeding apace, [113] and footnote; outfit of Indians decidedly inferior, [117]; Weer appointed to command of, [117] and footnote; Doubleday proposed for command of, [118]; existence ignored by Missourians, [119], footnote; destruction planned by Stand Watie and others, [120] and footnote; Weer attempts to expedite movement, [121]; special agents accompany, [121]-122 and footnote; component parts encamp at Baxter Springs, [125]; First Brigade put under Salomon, [125]; Second Brigade put under Judson, [125]; advance enters Indian Territory unmolested, [126]; forward march and route, 126; Hindman proposes to check progress, [129]; march, [130]; delicate position with respect to U.S. Indian policy, [134]; troubles begin, [138]; supplies insufficient, [138]; in original form brought to abrupt end, [143]; Pike's depreciatory opinion, [164] and footnote; Osages join conditionally, [207] and footnote; Gillpatrick serves ends of diplomacy between John Ross and, [271]
First Kansas: [97], footnote
First Missouri Cavalry: [113]
First Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles: commanded by John Drew, [25]; joins Pike at Smith's Mill, [28]; movements and conduct at Pea Ridge, [32]; iniquitous designs, [33]; stationed in vicinity of Park Hill, [111], footnote; defection after defeat at Locust Grove, [132]
First Regiment Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles: commanded by Cooper, [25]; gathers at Camp Stephens, [32]; goes out of service, [153]; two companies post themselves in upper part of Indian Territory, [155]; eight companies encamp near Fort McCulloch, [155]; fights valiantly at Battle of Newtonia, [194]
Flanagin, Harris: [270], footnote, [287], footnote
Folsom, Simpson N: [152]
Foreman, John A: [144], [284], [285]
Formby, John: work cited, [19], footnote
Fort Arbuckle (Okla.): [15], [60], footnote, [184] and footnote
Fort Blunt (Okla.): [260]
Fort Cobb (Okla.): [15], [60], footnote, [112], [153], [275], footnote; about to be abandoned by Texan volunteers, [173], footnote; McKuska appointed to take charge of remaining property, [174], footnote
Fort Davis (Okla.): Campbell discovers strong Confederate force at, [136]; Cooper orders Indians to report at, [137]; many of buildings destroyed by order of Phillips, [220] and footnote, [254]
Fort Gibson (Okla.): Pike's headquarters not far from, [22]; Choctaw troops guard road by Perryville towards, [112]; Hindman orders Pike to establish headquarters at, [128], footnote; Campbell halts at, [136]; Weer inclined to wander from straight road to, [139]; newly-fortified, given name of Fort Blunt, [260]; Blunt undertakes to go to,
[261]; Cooper learns of approach of train of supplies for, [272], footnote; Creeks obliged to stay at, [273], footnote; Phillips despatches Foreman to reënforce Williams, 284; Steele's equipment inadequate to taking of Fort Gibson, [286], [290]-291; Phillips continues in charge at, [305]; Cherokees intent upon recovery, [311]; Phillips to complete fortifications at, [325]; rapid changing of commands at, [333], [335]
Fort Larned (Kans.): [112], [152]
Fort Leavenworth (Kans.): [73], footnote, [123], footnote; protected, [45]; Prince in charge at, [55]; troops ordered to, [60], footnote; Hunter stationed at, [69], footnote; arms for Indian Expedition to be delivered at, [100]
Fort Lincoln (Kans.): [52]
Fort McCulloch (Okla.): constructed under Pike's direction, [110]; Pike to advance from, [119], footnote; Pike's force at, not to be despised, [128]; Cherokees exasperated by Pike's continued stay at, [159]; Pike departs from, [162]
Fort Scott (Kans.): [213], [214]; Lane at, [45], [51]; chief Federal stronghold in middle Southwest, [46]; temporary headquarters for Neosho Agency, [50]; abandoned by Lane in anticipation of attack by Price, [52]; Indian council transferred to, [74], footnote; Blunt succeeds Denver at, [98]; tri-weekly post between St. Joseph and, [116]; supply train from, waited for, [126]; Indians mustered in at, [132]; Weer cautioned against allowing communication to be cut off, [138]-139; Phillips's communication with, threatened, [272]; Steele plans to take, [286]
Fort Smith (Ark.): Drew's Cherokees marching from, to Fayetteville, [28], footnote; troops ordered withdrawn from, [60], footnote; Choctaw troops watch road to, [112]; indignation in, against Pike, [158]; martial law instituted in, [162], footnote; attempt to make permanent headquarters for Arkansas and Red River Superintendency, [176]-177; plans to push Confederate line northward of, [192]; conditions in and around, [247], [269], footnote; Phillips despairs of Choctaw recruiting while in Confederate hands, [258]-259; Steele takes command at, [261]; door of Choctaw country, [290]; becomes Blunt's headquarters, [304]; Steele expects Federals to attempt a drive from, to Red River, [311]; included within restored Department of Kansas, [321]; dispute over jurisdiction of, [324]; included within re-organized Department of Arkansas, [325]; Indian raids around, [331]
Fort Smith Papers: work cited, [150], footnote
Fort Towson (Okla.): [330]
Fort Washita (Okla.): [15], [60], footnote, [303], footnote
Fort Wayne (Okla.): in Delaware District of Cherokee Nation, [197]; battle of, October 22, 1862, [197], [211], [216], [249]
Fort Wise (Colo.): [152]
Foster, R.D: [47], footnote
Foster, Robert: [47], footnote
Foulke, William Dudley: work cited, [43], footnote
Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry: [322]
Fourteenth Missouri State Militia: [113]
Fourth Kansas Volunteers: [117], footnote
Franklin County (Kans.): [50], footnote
Frémont, John C: removal of, [13]; sends out emergency call for men, [48]; failure to support Lyon, [49]; no coördination of parts of army
of, [56]; emancipation proclamation, [57]; put in charge of Department of Mountain, [96]
Frontier Guards: [45], footnote
Fuller, Perry: [88] and footnote, [211], footnote, [212], [233]
Furnas, Robert W: [105], footnote; letter to Dole, [107]-108; becomes ranking officer in field, [143]; made commander of Indian Brigade, [144]
Gamble, Hamilton R: [119], footnote, [249], footnote, [260]
Gano, Richard M: [306], footnote, [332]
Gano's Brigade: [306], footnote
Garland, A.H: [148], footnote, [270], footnote
Garland, Samuel: [312], footnote, [321]
Gillpatrick, Doctor: sent under flag of truce to Ross, [135]; bearer of verbal instructions, [193], [217], footnote; death, [271]
Granby (Mo.): lead mines, [20]; abandoned, [20], footnote; plan for recovery, [194]
Grand Falls: [47], footnote
Grand River (Okla.): [284]; Cowskin Prairie on, [119]; Second Indian Home Guards to examine country, [126]; Salomon places Indians as corps of observation on, [142], [144];
Grand Saline (Okla.): [112], [131], footnote, [139]
Grayson County (Texas): [190]
Great Father: 46, footnote, [240]-241, footnote, [272]-273, footnote
Greene, Francis Vinton: work cited, [14], footnote
Greenleaf Prairie (Okla.): [272]
Greenwood, A.B: [222], footnote
Guerrillas: Indian approved by Pike, [22] and footnote, [112]; not present in Sherman's march, [44]; Halleck interested in suppression of, [101]; operations checked by Hindman in Indian Territory, [194]; Quantrill and, raid Black Bob lands and Olathe, [205]; policy of Confederate government towards, [205], footnote; attacks disturb Shawnees, [236], footnote; raid Cherokee refugee camp on Drywood Creek, [213]-214; everywhere on Indian frontier, [260]; perpetrate Baxter Springs Massacre, [304]; are recruiting stations in certain counties of Missouri, [304], footnote
Hadley, Jeremiah: [236], footnote
Halleck, Henry W: in command of Department of Missouri, [27]; plans for Denver, [71]; disparaging remarks, [75], footnote; probable reason for objecting to use of Indians in war, [75], footnote; in charge of Department of Mississippi, [96]; Lincoln's estimate of, [96]; instructed regarding First Indian Expedition, [100]; opposed to arming Indians, [101]; interested in suppression of jayhawkers and guerrillas, [101]; well rid of Kansas, [106], footnote; disregard of orders respecting Indian Expedition, [109]; calls for men, [259]
Hallum, John: work cited, [149], footnote
Halpine, Charles G: [96]
Hanly, Thomas B: [176]
Hardin, Captain: [276], footnote
Harlan, David M: [232], footnote
Harlan, James: [214] and footnote
Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee: [226]-227
Harrell, J.M: work cited in footnotes on pages [23], [149], [188], [190], [194], [249], [251], [284], [289]
Harris, Cyrus: [63], footnote
Harris, John: [207], footnote
Harris, J.D: [152]
Harrison, J.E: [267], footnote
Harrison, LaRue: [259]
Harrisonville (Mo.): [55]
Hart's Company: [266], footnote
Hart's Spies: [153]
Hay, John: work cited in footnotes on pages [41], [45], [96]
Hébert, Louis: [34]
Helena (Ark.): [283]
Henning, B.S: [207], footnote
Herndon, W.H: [214], footnote
Herron, Francis J: [249], [260]
Heth, Henry: [19]
Hindman, Thomas C: [119], footnote; appointment, [127], footnote; assumes command of Trans-Mississippi District, [128], [186]; disparagement of Pike's command, [128], footnote; orders Pike's white auxiliary to move to Little Rock, [147]; begins controversy with Pike, [156]; starts new attack upon Pike, [161]; justification for treatment of Pike, 162; impossible to be reconciled to Pike, [163]; withdraws approval of Pike's resignation, [169]; placed in charge of District of Arkansas, [192]; appears in Tahlequah, [193]; summoned by Holmes, [194]; instructed to let Pike go free, [200]; resorts to save expense, [247]; recall demanded by Arkansas delegation, [270]; associates appraised by, [270], footnote; asks for assignment to Indian Territory, [270], footnote; feeds indigents at cost of army commissary, [307]
Hitchcock, E.A: [98], footnote
Ho-go-bo-foh-yah: [82]
Holmes, Theophilus H: [127], footnote, [166], footnote; appointed to command of Trans-Mississippi Department, [187]; develops prejudice against Pike, 188; grants Pike leave of absence, [190]; real reasons for unfriendliness to Pike, [198]-199; orders arrest of Pike, [199]; forced to concede Indian claim to some consideration, [200]; command placed under supervision of Kirby Smith, [269]; relations with Hindman, [269]; displacement demanded by Arkansas delegation, [270]; Price commands in District of Arkansas during illness, [299], footnote; not friend of Steele, [311]
Honey Springs (Ark.): [288]
Horse Creek (Mo.): [145]
Horton, Albert W: [230], footnote
Hoseca X Maria: [65], footnote
Hubbard, David: [172], footnote
Hudson's Crossing (Okla.): [126], [143]
Humboldt (Kans.): [69], [79]; proposed headquarters of Neosho Agency, [52]; sacked and burnt by marauders, [53]; Coffin's account of burning of, [54], footnote; Kansas Seventh ordered to give relief to refugees, [82], footnote; Kansas Tenth at, [82], footnote; Jennison with First Kansas Cavalry at, [99], footnote
Hunter, David: falls back upon Sedalia and Rolla, [13], [26]; in command of Department of Kansas, [27], [65]-66; Lane places men at disposal, [41], footnote; guards White House, [45], footnote; appointment distasteful to Lane, [66]-69; stationed at Fort Leavenworth, [69], footnote; orders relief of refugees, [73], footnote; issues passes to Indian delegation, [73], footnote; interviewed at Planter's House in St. Louis, [74], footnote; friction between Lane and, [74]-76; suggests mustering in of Kansas Indians, [74]-75, footnote; Halleck's strictures upon command, [75], footnote; sends relief to refugees, [81]; warns that army supplies to refugees must cease, [83]; relieved from command, [96]; troubles mostly due to local politics, [97]
Hutchinson, C.C: [55], footnote, [212], [213], footnote
Illinois Creek: battle of, [218], footnote
Indian Alliance with Confederacy: conditioned by stress of
circumstances, [134]; Creeks and Choctaws disgusted with, [254]; Cherokee National Council revokes, [256]; Indians fear mistake, [273]-274; effect of Battle of Honey Springs upon, [290]; strengthened by formation of Indian league, [317]; revitalized by Maxey's reforms, [326]
Indian Confederacy: formed by Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Seminoles and Caddoes, [317]; Choctaws want separate from Southern, [321], footnote
Indian Brigade: formed, [144]; scouting of component parts of, [145]-146; white troops ordered to support of, [192]-193; Phillips given command, [249]; integral parts, [249], [250], footnote; assigned service, [250]; regarded by Phillips as in sad state, [251]
Indian Delegation: [62], footnote, [73], footnote, [74], footnote; Dole interviewed in Leavenworth, [94]; Osage wants conference with Great Father, [240], footnote; Creek, confers with Steele, [262], footnote; Davis disregards, [318] and footnote
Indian Home Guards: Fifth Regiment, [219] and footnote; First Regiment, Furnas, colonel commanding, [107], [143]; muster roll, [108]-109, footnote; composed of Creeks and Seminoles, [114]; ordered to take position in vicinity of Vann's Ford, [144]; demoralization, [145]; component part of Phillips's Indian Brigade, [249]; composed mainly of Creeks, [251]; fought dismounted at Honey Springs, [288]; Fourth Regiment, [219] and footnote; Second Regiment, [125]; Third Regiment, formation, [132]; Phillips commissioned colonel of, [132]; detachment at Fort Gibson, [144]; engagement, [163]-164, [194], [197]; component part of Phillips's Indian Brigade, [249]; largely Cherokee in composition, [252]; innovations introduced into, [252]; part placed at Scullyville, [325]
Indian Protectorate: [175]
Indian Indigents: [247], [262], [307]-308 and footnote
Indian Refugees: Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la and his men, [79]; numbers justified use of Indian soldiery, [79]; numbers exaggerated, [81], [209] and footnote; destitution, [81]; Dr. Campbell ministers to needs, [81]-82; Seventh Kansas gives relief, [82], footnote; Coffin describes pitiable state, [82] and footnote; Snow furnishes details of destitution of Seminole, [83], footnote; army supplies to be discontinued, [83]; Kile made special distributing agent, [84]; much-diseased, [85]; hominy, chief food, [85], footnote; Neosho Valley selected as suitable place for, [86]; complain of treatment, [87]; Collamore and Jones investigate condition, [87], footnote; unwilling to remove to Sac and Fox reservation, [88] and footnote; Creek request appointment of Carruth as agent, [89]; manifest confidence in Lane's power, [94]; unassuaged grief, [95]; subsistence becomes matter of serious moment, [99]; Congress applies Indian annuity money to support of, [99]; want to assist in recovery of Indian Territory, [99]; to furnish troops for First Indian Expedition, [100]; Halleck opposed to arming of, [101]; Blunt advises early return to own country, [136]; numbers increase as result of Salomon's retrograde movement, [146], footnote, [203]; Blunt promises to restore to homes, [196], [203]; of Neosho Agency, [204]-207 and footnotes; Creek offered home by Osages, [207] and footnote; conditions among, [208]; Cherokee on Drywood Creek, [209]; distributed over Sac and Fox Agency,
[212]-213; collect on Neutral Lands, [213] and footnote; camp of Cherokee raided by guerrillas, [213]-214; Harland and Proctor to look out for, at Neosho, [214]; claim of Sacs and Foxes against Creek, [235], footnote; Phillips's reasons for returning to homes, 258; at Neosho returned to homes, [273] and footnote; cattle stolen, [274], footnote; on return journey preyed upon by compatriots, [332]
Indian Representation in Confederate Congress: [180], [279], [298]-299, footnote
Indian Soldiers (Confederate): as Home Guard, 23-24; as possible guerrillas to prey upon Kansas, [23] and footnote; as corps of observation, [25]; refuse to move until paid, [27]; conduct at Battle of Pea Ridge, [30]-33; not included in Van Dorn's scheme of things, [35]; Van Dorn orders return to own country, [35]; order to cut off supplies from Missouri and Kansas, [35]-36; may be rewarded by Pike, [36]; Pike's report on activity, [112]; Hindman's appraisement, [128], footnote; stigma attaching to use, [148], footnote; organized in military way for own protection, [159]; do scouting, [163]; Smith to raise and command certain, [173], footnote; Pike to receive five companies from Seminoles, [173], footnote; Leeper to enlist from Reserve tribes, [173]-174, footnote; Cooper calls from all Indian nations, [174], footnote; as Home Guard, [189]; privations and desertions, [200]; threw away guns at Battle of Honey Springs, [288]; recruiting, [317], [319]; results under best conditions, [326]-327; consider reënlistment, [328]; recognition of services, 330
Indian Soldiers (Federal): feasibility of, [50], [57]; Frémont and Robinson not in favor of, [57]; Hunter suggests making, out of Kansas tribes, [74]-75, footnote; Stanton refuses to employ, [76] and footnote; use justified, [79]; economy, [99]; to form larger part of First Indian Expedition, [100]; Halleck opposed to, [101], [102]; Dole instructs officers to report at Fort Leavenworth, [102], footnote; necessary equipment, [109]; final preparations, [121]; appearance, [123] and footnote; excellent for scouting, [125]; at Locust Grove, [131], footnote; accused of outrages committed by white men, [135], footnote; do scouting, [163]; tribute of praise for, [195], footnote; made part of Army of Frontier, [196]; diverted to service in Missouri, [196]; desertions, [203] and footnote; do well at Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, [218]-219; disposed to take leave of absence, [252]; to help secure Indian Territory, [294]; negro regiment compared with Indian, [295]
Indian Springs (Ga.): treaty, [255], footnote
Indian Territory: McCulloch expected to secure, [15]; included within Trans-Mississippi District, [20]; troops of, [25]; Pike to endeavour to maintain, [36]; attack, from, expected, [48]; Frémont calls for aid, [48]; situation delicate, [59]-60; left destitute of protection, [60]; Hunter's suggestion, [75], footnote; first refugees from, [79]; "home," 93; early return promised, [94]; expeditions to recover, projected, [95] and footnote; refugees want to recover, [99]; Stand Watie returns into, [113]; Carruth and Martin to take note of conditions in, [122] and footnote; Pike's force for defence of, exclusively, [129]; Indian Brigade holding its own there, [146]; Pike's Indian force ordered to northern
border, [148]; Pike attempts justification of retirement to southern part, [151]; Pike declares Indian officers peers of white, [158]-159; defence regarded by Pike as chief duty, [159]; strategic importance not unappreciated by Confederate government, [171]; attached for judicial purposes to western district of Arkansas, [177]; Confederate government fails to carry out promise, [177], footnote; Pike advises complete separation of, [179]; Scott to investigate conditions in, [181]; Pike returns to, [190]; included within District of Arkansas, [192]; guerrilla warfare in, suppressed, [194]; Federals in undisputed possession of, [198]; Holmes exploiting, [199]; Indian alliance valuable, [201]; Absentee Shawnees expelled from, [205], footnote; Blunt advises speedy return of refugees, [209]; Confederates plan recovery, [218]; Lane introduces resolution for adding, to Kansas, [223]; Dole objects to regular territorial form of government in, [223]; Kansas tribes willing to exchange lands for homes in, [227]; project for concentration of tribes in, [230], footnote; negotiations for removal of Kansas tribes to, [231]; depletion of resources, [245], [247]; organized as separate military command, [245] and footnote; troops to be all unmounted,## 247; advertised as lost to Confederate cause, [250]; conception of responsibility to, [253]; Phillips's plans for recovery not at present practicable, [257]; strategic importance unappreciated by Halleck and Curtis, [259]; Curtis to take consequences of giving up [259]; privilege of writ of habeas corpus suspended in, [269]; Hindman asks for assignment to, [270], footnote; is mere buffer, [276]; Cooper poses as friend of, [278], [300]; Creeks complaint to Davis, [279]; Confederate operations confined to attacks upon supply trains, [283]; removal of all Kansas Indians to, [294]; roads and highways in, [295]-296, footnote; necessary to Confederacy, [298], footnote; Scott enters, [300]; command devolved upon Cooper, [303]; made distinct from Arkansas, [303]; Magruder wants attached to District of Texas, [306], footnote; war measures applied to, [308]-309; Maxey in command of, [311]; Indian Home Guards only Federal forces in, [312]; granary of Trans-Mississippi Department, [315]; Boudinot's suggestions regarding, [317], footnote; council requests be made separate department, [318]; Davis objects, [318]-319; included within restored Department of Kansas, [321]; Phillips starts upon expedition through, [322]; Price asks for loan of troops from, 326; strategic importance of, [331]; scandalous performances in, [333]
Indian Trust Funds: [173]-174
Indians of Plains: regarding alliance with, [320], [335]; harass Kansas and Colorado, [320] and footnote, [335]
Interior Department: [73], footnote, [105] and footnote; profiteering among employees, [208]; Lane and Wilder make request, [230], footnote
Inter-tribal Council: at Leroy, [62]-69, footnotes; Lane's plans for at headquarters, [69]; Leroy selected as the place for, [69]; sessions of, [69]-70; Hunter's plans for, at Fort Leavenworth, [70], [74], footnote; Lane orders transfer to Fort Scott, [74], footnote; at Belmont, [237], footnote; at Armstrong Academy, [317], [320], [323]
Iola (Kans.): [88], footnote; Doubleday concentrates near, [120], footnote; Osages advance as far as, [207] footnote
Ionies: [274], footnote
Iowas: [77], footnote
Ironeyes: [115], footnote
Iroquois: [79]
Jackson, Claiborne: [16], [17], [50], footnote
Jackson County (Mo.): [304], footnote
Jacksonport (Ark.): [25]
Jan-neh: [109], footnote
Jayhawkers: [41], footnote, [97], [101], [251], [266], [268], footnote, [269], [273], footnote
Jayhawking Expedition: [73], footnote [274], footnote
Jennison, C.R: [50], footnote, [52], footnote [99], footnote, [104], footnote
Jewell, Lewis R: [131]
Jim Ned: [274], footnote
Jim Pockmark: [65], footnote
John Jumper: in command of Creek and Seminole Battalion, [25]; on side of Confederacy, [62], footnote; ordered to take Fort Larned, [112]; Seminole Battalion in motion toward Salt Plains, [152]; honour conferred upon, by Provisional Congress, [174], footnote; renegade members from Seminole Battalion of, involved in tragedy at Wichita Agency, [183]; loyal to Pike, [200]; member of delegation to Davis, [318], footnote; Phillips sends communication to, [323], footnote
John Ross Papers: work cited, [28], footnote
Johnson and Grimes: [308], footnote
Johnson, F: [207] and footnote, [211]
Johnson, Robert W: [24], footnote, [25], footnote, [175], [176]
Johnson County (Kans.): [204], [235], footnote
Johnston, Albert Sidney: [14], footnote, [19] and footnote, [26]
Joint Committee on Conduct of War: [33], [33], footnote
Jones, Evan: [64], footnote, [73], footnote; investigates conditions among refugees, [87], footnote; accompanies Weer, [121]; entrusted with confidential message to John Ross, [121]-122; pleads for justice to Indians, [225] and footnote; offers to negotiate about Neutral Lands, [231]
Jones, J.T: [213], footnote
Jones, Robert M: [180] and footnote
Jon-neh: [108], footnote
Jordan, A.M: [214], footnote
Jordan, Thomas: [128], footnote
Journal of the Confederate Congress: work cited in footnotes on pages [172], [173], [174], [175], [278]
Judson, William R: [134]; in charge of Second Brigade of First Indian Expedition, [125]
Kansans: fighting methods, [17], [44]; implacable and dreaded foes of Missouri, [18]; fears attack from direction of Indian Territory, [48]; profiteering among, [208]; covet Indian lands, [221], [224]
Kansas: Indians on predatory expeditions into, [23]; Indians to form battalion, [23], footnote; Indians to cut off supplies from, [35]-36; bill for admission signed by Buchanan, [41]; exposed to danger, [45]; troops called to Missouri, [48]; Price has no immediate intention of invading, [52]; Indian enlistment, [57]; likely to be menaced by Southern Indians, [61]; Territory, [70]; refugees afflicted sorely, [93]; desire to recover Indian Territory, [95]; Halpine makes derogatory remarks about, [96]; not desired in Halleck's command, [96], footnote; revolution to have been expected, [104], footnote; Pike's Indians to repel invasion of Indian Territory from, [148]; Pike tries to prevent cattle-driving to, [173], footnote; failure of corn crop in southern part, [209]; people want refugees removed from southern, [212]; refugees
plundering in, [218]; resolution for extending southern boundary, [223]; proposition to confederate tribes of Nebraska and of, [227]; negotiations begun to relieve, of Indian encumbrance, [228]; project to concentrate tribes of, in Indian Territory, [230], footnote; negotiations with tribes of, [231]; political squabbles, [249], footnote; Wells's command on western frontier, [267], footnote; stolen property brought into, [273], footnote; Steele plans to invade, [286]; advisability of making raid considered, [320]; Stand Watie contemplates an invasion, [332] Kansas Brigade: See Lane's Kansas Brigade Kansas Legislature: [42], [71], footnote, [225] Kansas Militia: [50], footnote Kansas River: [206] Kansas Seventh: [82], footnote Kansas-Nebraska Bill: [17], [44] Kansas Tenth: [82], footnote Kaws: [226], [236] and footnote Kaw Agency (Kans.): [55], [205] Kechees (Keeches?): [115], footnote Ke-Had-A-Wah: [65], footnote Keith, O.B: [230] Ketchum, W. Scott: [119], footnote Kickapoos: reported almost unanimously loyal to U.S, [66], footnote; in First Indian Expedition, [115], footnote; implicated in tragedy at Wichita Agency, [183]; fraudulent negotiation with, [230] and footnote; confer with Carruth, [274], footnote Kile, William: special agent to refugees, [84]; refuses appointment as quartermaster, [115], footnote; misunderstanding with Ritchie, [115], footnote; estrangement between Coffin and, [208] and footnote; resignation, [208], footnote; advises speedy return of refugees, [209] Killebrew, James: [50], footnote King, John: [269], footnote Kininola: [65], footnote Kiowas: [112]; select home on Elk Creek, [153]; friendly, [153], footnote; confer with Carruth, [274], footnote Knights of Golden Circle: [111], footnote
Lane, H.S: [146], footnote Lane, James Henry: character, [41], [56]; enthusiasm, [41], [49]; influence with Lincoln, [41]-42; elected senator from Kansas, [42]; accepts colonelcy and begins recruiting, [43]; not to be taken as type, [45]; redoubles efforts for organizing brigade, [49]; empowered to recruit, [50]; conceives idea of utilizing Indians, [50], [57]; abandons Fort Scott, [52]; throws up breastworks at Fort Lincoln, [52]; proceeds to seek revenge in spite of Robinson's opposition, [55]; burns Osceola, [55]; attitude towards slavery, [56]; suggests re-organization of military districts on frontier, [58]; disconcerted by appointment of Hunter, [66]-69; plans for inter-tribal council, [69]; Denver had measured swords with, [70]; control over Federal patronage in Kansas, [71]; nominated brigadier-general, [71]; friction between Hunter and, [74]-76; instructed by anti-Coffin conspirators, [88], footnote; protests to Lincoln against appointment of Denver, [97]; succeeds in preventing appointment of Denver, [98]; responsible for Blunt's promotion, [107], footnote; Phillips appointed on staff, 126, footnote; endorses request of Agent Johnson, [207], footnote; introduces resolution for extending southern boundary of Kansas, [223]; denounces Stevens as defaulter, [226], footnote; opposed to Gamble, Schofield, and Curtis, [249], footnote; belongs to party of
Extremists, [305], footnote; requests that Blunt be summoned to Washington for conference, [322], footnote
Lane, W.P: [266], footnote
Lane's Kansas Brigade: [41], [43], [49], [51], [58], [59], [71]; relation to Hunter's command, [72] and footnote; marauding committed, [75], footnote; prospective Indian element dispensed with, [77]
Lawler, J.J: [204], footnote
Lawrence (Kans.): [62], footnote, [73], footnote; Quantrill's raid upon, [238], footnote; Dole detained by raid upon, [239]
Lawrenceburg (Ind.): [43], footnote
Lawrence Republican: [58], footnote
Leased District (Okla.): [181]-182, [198]
Leavenworth Daily Conservative: [58], footnote
Lee, Robert E: [186], footnote, [187]
Lee, R.W: [307], footnote
Leeper, Matthew: authorized to enlist men, [173], footnote; departs for Texas, [183]; murder, [183]
Leroy (Kans.): [86], [229], [239] and footnote; arrangements for keeping cattle, [54], footnote; Lane builds stockades, [55]; council held by Cutler at, [62], footnote; substituted for Humboldt as place for council, [69]; sessions of council, [69]-70; Indian Brigade left, for Humboldt, [115], footnote; Weer returns to, [121]; some Quapaws at, [204], footnote; Osages at, [207]; Blunt thinks refugees not properly cared for, [215]; Dole negotiates with Osages at, [239] and footnote
Lexington (Mo.): [52], footnote, [55]
Limestone Gap: [111], footnote
Limestone Prairie: [328]
Lincoln, Abraham: [71], [72] and footnote, [211], footnote; suggests Hunter's falling back, [13]; calls for volunteers, [41]; approached by Phelps and Blair, [49]; popularity asserted, [54], footnote; fears Frémont's supineness, [56]; Lane urged to seek interview with, [58]; appointment of Cameron mistake, [60]; attention solicited by Dole, [61]; sickness in family, [76], footnote; refugees appeal to, [87] and footnote; estimate of Halleck, [96]; protests to, against appointment of Denver, [97]; wires Halleck to defer assignment of Denver, [97]-98; responsible for Blunt's promotion, [107], footnote; Ross to intercede with, [192], footnote; inquires into practicability of occupying Cherokee country, [216]; selects Schofield to succeed Curtis, [260]; Amnesty Proclamation distributed among Indians, [322]
Lindsay's Prairie: [216]
Linn County (Kans.): [101], footnote
Lipans: [274], footnote
Little Arkansas River: [275], footnote
Little Bear: [240], footnote
Little Bear Band of Osages: [238], footnote
Little Blue River (Okla.): [151], footnote
Little Boggy (Okla.): [112]
Little Osage River: [45], [52]
Little Rock (Ark.): [36], [63], footnote, [190]; Van Dorn assumes command at, [25]; Hindman assumes command at, [128]; Hindman orders Pike to move part of forces to, [147]; Scott endeavours to interview Holmes in, [299]
Livermore, William Roscoe: work cited in footnotes on [260], [269], [270]
Locust Grove (Okla.): skirmish at, [33], [131]-132; Clarkson's commissary captured at, [138]; defeat of Confederates at, counted heavily against Pike, [161]
Lo-ka-la-chi-ha-go: [109], footnote
Lo-ga-po-koh: [109], footnote
Long Tiger: [103], footnote
Longtown Creek (Okla.): [295], footnote
Louisiana: portion included within Trans-Mississippi District, [20]; requisition upon, for troops, [25]; portion included within Trans-Mississippi Department, [192] and footnote; western, detached from Trans-Mississippi Department, [246]
Love, William DeLoss: work cited in footnotes on pages [118], [138]
Lower Creeks: [62], footnote
Lyon, Nathaniel: work to be repeated, [14]; insight into Indian character, [48]; death, [49]
McClellan, George B: [13], [75], footnote, [96]
McClish, Fraser: [62], footnote
McCulloch, Ben: refuses to coöperate with Price, [14], [56]; takes position in Arkansas, [15]; relations with leading Confederates in Arkansas and Missouri, [16]; little in common with Price, [17]; indifference towards Missouri, [18]; proceeds to Richmond to discuss matters in controversy, [19]; driven back into northwestern Arkansas, [26]; death, [31], [34]; had approved of using Indians against Kansas, [31], footnote; commission from, found on John Matthews, [54], footnote; had diverted Pike's supplies, [147]-148
McCulloch, Henry E: in command of Northern Sub-district of Texas, [302]; opinion of conditions in Indian Territory, [306], footnote
McCurtain, J: [312], footnote
McDaniel, James: [231], footnote
McDonald, Hugh: [173], footnote
McGee's Residence: [47], footnote
McIntosh, Chilly: [25], [62], footnote, [152]
McIntosh, D.N: colonel in command of First Creek Regiment, [25]; arrives at Camp Stephens, [32]; under orders to advance up Verdigris toward Santa Fé road, [152]; conduct as commander, [285], footnote; commanded First and Second Creek at Honey Springs, [288]
McIntosh, James: [29], footnote; death, [31], [34]; defeated Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la in Battle of Chustenahlah, [79]
McIntosh, Unee: [62], footnote
McIntosh, William: [255], footnote
Mackey's Salt Works (Okla.): [325]
McNeil, John: [297] and footnote, [305]
Magazine Mountains: [266], footnote
Magruder, John Bankhead: to command Trans-Mississippi Department, [186]; delay, [186], footnote; appointment, rescinded, [187]; orders Bankhead to Steele's assistance, [291]-292; proposes consolidation of commands for recovery of Forts Smith and Gibson, [302]; tries to deprive Steele of white force, [306], [311], footnote; wants Indian Territory attached to Texas, [306], footnote
Manypenny, George W: [221]
Marmaduke, John S: [251], [327]
Marston, B.W: [329], footnote
Marque and Reprisal Law: [21]
Martial Law: [162] and footnote
Martin, George W: work cited, [59], footnote
Martin, H.W: entrusted with mission by Coffin, [122] and footnote, [133]; opinion regarding refugees, [209], [217]-218; arrangements for inter-tribal council, [273], footnote
Martin's Regiment: [308], footnote
Marysville (Okla.): [112]
Matthews, John: incensing Osages and Cherokees against U.S. government, [47], footnote; death, [53] and footnote; had commission from McCuIloch, [54], footnote
Maxey, Samuel B: assigned to command of Indian Territory, [311]; project for sweeping reforms, [315] and footnote; delivers address at Armstrong Academy council, [320]
and footnote; thinks Indians best adapted for irregular warfare, [326]; coöperates with Price willingly, [326]-327; rulings, [329]-330, footnote; sets up printing-press for propaganda work, [330]; speaks in own defense, [334]; superseded by Cooper, [334]
Maysville (Ark.): [131], [197]
Maremec River (Mo.): [27]
Methodist Episcopal Church South: [236], footnote
Mexican War: [70]; Roane's conduct in, criticised by Pike, [149]
Mexico: Lane in, [42], footnote; teams hauling cotton to, [266], footnote
Miamies: [77], footnote
Mico Hatki: [62], footnote, [64], footnote, [108], footnote, [234]
Middle Boggy (Okla.): [152], [296]
Miles, W. Porcher: [278], footnote
Mills, James K.: [113]
Mississippi River: [14], footnote, [26], footnote, [34], [268], footnote
Missouri: [17], [173], footnote; decisive result of Battle of Pea Ridge, [13]; expected Confederacy to force situation for her, [18]; requisition upon, for troops, [25]; relief planned by Van Dorn, [26], [34]; Indians to cut off supplies from, [35]; fight for, on border, [43]-44; troops from Kansas called to, [48]; Denver served in, [70]; activity of secessionists, [110]; Payton, senator from, [176], footnote; Hindman and others plan to reënter southwest, [194], [218]; Delaware Reservation not far distant from, [206]; Martin refuses to consider refugees living upon impoverished people of, [217]-218; political squabbles in, [249], footnote; Watie succeeds in entering southwestern, [312]; Boudinot suggests arrangements for, [317], footnote
Missouri Commandery: work cited, [148], footnote
Missouri River: [53]
Missouri State Guard: [17], [158]
Missouri State Guards: Eighth Division, [130], footnote
Missourians: customary fighting methods during period of border warfare, [17], [44]; refugee, in Lane's Kansas Brigade, [51]; inroads resented by various tribes, [77], footnote; intent upon ignoring First Indian Expedition, [119], footnote; battalion of, at Locust Grove, [131]
Mitchell, Robert B: appointment by Robinson, [46], footnote; raises volunteers to go against Indians, [46], footnote; needed by Halleck, [101] and footnote
Mix, Charles E: [52], footnote, [60], [208], footnote
"Moderates": [304], footnote
Mograin, Charles: [207], footnote, [241], footnote
Moneka: [46], footnote
Montgomery, James: [15] and footnote, [45], [53], footnote
Moonlight, Thomas: [322]
Moore, Charles: [206], footnote
Moore, Frank: work cited in footnotes on pages [83], [84], [135], [184], [257], [287]
Moore, Thomas O: [192], footnote
Moravian Mission: [194]
Morgan, A.S: [291], footnote, [293]
Morton, Oliver P: [43] and footnote
Moty Kennard: footnotes on pages [62], [65], [262], [278], [302], [320]
Mundy Durant: [235], footnote
Munsees: [212]
Muskogee (Okla.): [288]
Murrow, J.S: [162], footnote
Napier's Peninsular War: Pike's study of, [163]
Nebraska Territory: [227], [231]
Neosho (Mo.): defeat of Federals at, [113]; Ratliff despatched to, [127]; Cherokee refugees removed from Drywood Creek to, [214], [217], [218]; refugees at, [257], footnote, [273] and footnote
Neosho Agency: headquarters, [46], [50], [52]; tribes included within, [48]; in great confusion, [115]-116; changes in location of, [116]-117
Neosho Falls (Kans.): [213]
Neosho Valley: suitable place for refugees, [86]; refugees object to leaving, [88]; Steele plans to replenish resources from, [286]; Stand Watie makes daring cavalry raid into, [312]
New Albany: [80], footnote
New England Relief Society: [87], footnote
New Mexico: [61], [113], [152], [238], footnote
Newton, Robert C: [266], footnote
Newton County (Mo.): [47], footnote
Newtonia (Mo.): battle of, [194]-195 and footnotes
New York Indian Lands: [79]; intruded upon by white squatters, [80], [85]; refugees upon, [79], [85]; controversy over, [85], footnote; Dole makes treaty concerning, [235]-236
New York Tribune: [31], footnote, [126], footnote, [226]
Nicolay, John G: [42], footnote
Nineteenth Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers: [150], footnote
Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry: [119], footnote; Frederick Salomon, colonel, [118]; part attached to First Brigade of First Indian Expedition, [126]
North, The: [42], footnote, [171], [245]; indifference towards West, [43]; reconstruction measures in favor of, [228]; Indian Territory came too late into reckonings of, [250]
North Fork of the Canadian (Okla.): [173], footnote
North Fork Village (Okla.): [173], footnote
Northern Sub-District of Texas: [286], [302]
Ock-tah-har-sas Harjo: [228], footnote; elected principal chief by refugee Creeks, [89]; addresses "Our Father," [233]
Office of Indian Affairs: prompt action needed, [47], footnote; approval sought, [52]; appeal to War Department for restoration of military force in Indian Territory, [60]; Carruth, special agent of, accompanies First Indian Expedition, [122] and footnote; agents ignored by military men of First Indian Expedition, [133] and footnote; profiteering among employees, [208]; Wattles sent out by, [226]; not yet prepared to treat with John Ross for retrocession of Neutral Lands, [231]
Oh-Chen-Yah-Hoe-Lah: [69], footnote
Oke-Tah-hah-shah-haw Choe: talk, [66], footnote
Olathe (Kans.): [205]
Old George: [203]
Oldham, Williamson S: [157] and footnote, [176], footnote
Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la: [24], [63], footnote, [73], footnote, [76] and footnote, [79]; defeated by McIntosh in Battle of Chustenahlah, [79]; lodges complaint against Coffin, [87]; friends oppose election of Ock-tah-har-sas Harjo as principal chief, [89]; interviews Lane, [94]; Coffin talks with, on subject of Indian Expedition, [102]-103, footnote; wants "wagons that shoot," [117]; Creeks under, offered home by Osages, [207] and footnote, [229]; Ellithorpe complains of, [219], footnote; death, [234]
Osage County (Kans.): [80]
Osage Nation: [47], footnote
Osage Reservation (Kans.): exposed condition of, [55]; refugees cross, [79]; intruders upon, [222] and footnote; owners unwilling to cede part of, [229]-230
Osage River: [27]
Osages: [252]; bad white men interfering with, [46]; disturbances
among, [46], footnote, [47], footnote; Mitchell schemes to negotiate treaty with, [47], footnote; offer assistance to U.S., [49]; John Matthews, trader among, [53], footnote; loyalty asserted, [54], footnote; Coffin to coöperate with Elder in negotiating with, 87-88, footnote; attempt to persuade enlistment for First Indian Expedition, [115], [207]; approached for cession of lands, [116], [222]; abandon Confederate cause, [121]; Weer promotes enlistment of, [121]; service rendered by, [207], footnote; offer home to Creeks, [207] and footnote, [229], [237]-238; memorialize Congress, [229]; disgusted with Coffin's draft of treaty of cession, [229]; Dole makes treaty with, [235], [239] and footnote; massacre of Confederate officers, [237]-238, footnote; council of Great and Little, [237], footnote; unfair advantage taken by representatives of U.S. government, [238]; terms of Dole's treaty with, [239], footnote; makes propositions to Dole, [240]-241, footnote; Dorn reported to have funds for, [264], footnote; Jim Ned's band involved in serious difficulties with, [274], footnote; invited to inter-tribal council, [274]-275, footnote
Osceola (Mo.): Lane burns, [55]
Ottawas: included within Sac and Fox Agency, [212]; receive refugees upon certain conditions, [212]-213; extend further hospitality to refugees, [213], footnote
Pagy, A.T: [65], footnote
Park Hill (Okla.): Pike tarries at, [28]; Drew's regiment stationed near in, footnote; Greene sent with detachment to Tahlequah and, 136; Blunt's expeditionary force reaches, [193]; Phillips has camp at, 258
Parke County (Ind.): [80], footnote
Parks, R.C: [113], footnote
Parks, Thomas J: [248], footnote
Parsons, Luke F: [285]
Partisan Rangers: authorized by Confederate government, [112]; W.P. Lane's company of Texas, [266], footnote
Paschal Fish: [205], footnote, [236], footnote
Pascofa: [62], footnote
Patton, James: [47], footnote
Pawnee Fork: [112]
"Paw Paws": [304], footnote
Payton, R.L.Y: [176], footnote
Pea-o-pop-i-cult: [65], footnote
Pearce, N. Bart: [16], [22], [156], [158]
Pea Ridge (Ark.): [13], [29], [34], [36], [197]
Pegg, Thomas: [256]
Pelzer, Louis: work cited, [260], footnote
Peorias: [77], footnote
Perryville (Okla.): [112], [295]-296
Pheasant Bluff (Okla.): [271], [327]
Phelps, John S: [49], [199]-200
Phil David: [68], footnote
Phillips, James A: [126], footnote
Phillips, William A: [126], [321]; footnote; biographical sketch, [126], footnote; commissioned colonel of Third Indian, [132]; forces engage with those of Stand Watie, [163]-164; Indians under, fought well in Battle of Newtonia, [194], [195], footnote; reconnoissances, [218]; orders buildings at Fort Davis destroyed, [220], footnote; given command of Indian Brigade by Blunt, [249]; reports Indian Brigade in sad state, [251]; large view of responsibilities to Indian Territory, [253]; makes overtures to Indians, [254]; expostulates against delay in attempting recovery of Indian Territory, [257]; reasons for returning refugees, [258]; moves over border, [258]; communication with Fort Scott threatened, [272]; continues in charge at Fort Gibson, [305]; Indian Home
Guards under, only Federal troops left in Indian Territory, [312]; undertakes extended expedition through Indian Territory, [322]; gives own interpretation to Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation, [322]-323; differences between Blunt and, [325]; removed from command at Fort Gibson, [333]; restored to command, [335]
Phisterer, Frederick: work cited in footnotes on pages [30], [288]
Piankeshaws: [77], footnote
Pickett Papers: work cited in footnotes on pages [171], [172], [175]
Pike, Albert: [128]; assigned to command of Department of Indian Territory, [20]; report submitted to Davis, [21]; report to be found in U.S. War Department, [21], footnote; makes headquarters at Cantonment Davis, [22]; anxious to save Indian Territory for South, [22]-23; ordered to join Van Dorn with Indians, [27]; becomes ranking officer in field, [31]; criticism in New York Tribune, [31], footnote; authorizes Indian fighting at Pea Ridge, [32]; rejoins army at Cincinnati, [35]; receives orders from Maury, [36]; talk with Comanches, [65], footnote; negotiations with Upper Creeks, [66], footnote; negotiations with Seminoles, [68], footnote; intrenches himself at Fort McCulloch, [110]; report on Indian military activity, [112]; ordered to send more important of forces to Little Rock, [147]; protests against orders of May 31 and June 17, [154]-156; objects to appointment of Pearce, [156]; reports grievances to Randolph, [156]; Cherokees exasperated by stay at Fort McCulloch, [159]; letter to Stand Watie, [159], footnote; John Ross complains of, [160]; prepares resignation, [161]; indites conciliatory letter to Hindman, [162]-163; student of art of war, [163]; publishes circular address to Southern Indians, [165]; effect of circular, 166 and footnote; correspondence with Davis, [167]-168; arrested by Cooper, [169]; entered upon diplomatic career as agent of Confederate State Department, [171]-172 and footnote; exceeded instructions in assuming financial obligations, [174], footnote; considers remuneration, [175], footnote; makes important recommendations to Davis, [179]; applies to Holmes for leave of absence, [190]; resignation, [191] and footnote; reënters Indian Territory, [198]; rumors of conspiracy with unionists in Texas, [199]; arrested, [200]; sums up grievances in letter to Holmes, [201], Appendix; Kirby Smith attempts to reëmploy for service among Indians of Plains, [201], [335]; Steele takes umbrage at published statement, [286], footnote
"Pins": [193], [268], footnote
Planter's House: [74], footnote, [94], footnote
Pocahontas (Ark.): [25]
Poison Spring (Ark.): battle of, [326]-327
Pomeroy, Samuel C: [41], footnote; elected senator from Kansas, [42]; John Brown's opinion of, [42], footnote; endorses principle underlying Frémont's emancipation proclamation, [56]-57 instructed by anti-Coffin conspirators, [88], footnote; protests against appointment of Denver, [97]; succeeds in preventing appointment of Denver, [98]; responsibility for Blunt's promotion, [107], footnote; advocates confiscation of Cherokee Neutral Lands, [224]; recommends concentration of tribes of West in Indian Territory, [230], footnote; in company of Dole at Leroy, [239], footnote
Pontiac: [31], footnote
Portlock, E.E: [329], footnote
Poteau River (Okla.): [297], footnote
Pottawatomies: [234] and footnote, [274]-275, footnote
Prairie Creek (Ark.): [216]
Prairie d'Ane (Ark.): [326]
Prairie Grove (Ark.): battle of, [218] and footnote, 249
Prairie Springs: [279]
Price, Sterling: [16], [17], [26], [29], [52], [55], [56], [127], footnote, [185], [317], footnote; tries to induce Quantrill and his men to enter regular service, [205], footnote; Hindman's opinion of, [270], footnote; commands in District of Arkansas, [299], footnote, [326]
Proctor, A.G: [214], [234], footnote
Provisional Congress: refuses to confirm nomination of Heth, [19]; calls for information on McCulloch-Price controversy, [19]; established precedents of good faith in Indian relations, [172]; resolution authorizing Davis to send a commissioner to Indian nations, [172], footnote, [173], footnote; work of, [173]-175 and footnotes; confers honour upon John Jumper, [174], footnote; considerations of committees regarding Indian superintendency, [175], [176]
Pryor, Nathaniel: [145], footnote
Pryor Creek (Okla.): [142], [145]
Quantrill, W.C: [45]; guerrillas raid Black Bob Lands and Olathe, [205]; raid upon Lawrence, [238], footnote, [239]; work scorned and repudiated by McCulloch, [303], footnote; perpetrates Baxter Springs massacre, [304]; movements, [304] and footnote; Maxey feels no repugnance for services of, [326]
Quapaw Agency: [53], footnote
Quapaw Nation: [46], [50], footnote
Quapaws: [48], in First Indian Expedition, [115], footnote; driven into exile, [116] and footnote; become refugees or are drawn into ranks of Federal army, [204]; some, not bona fide refugees, [204], footnote; no longer in Second Regiment of Indian Home Guards, [252]
Quapaw Strip (Kans.): [126]
Quesenbury, William: [158], [248], footnote
Rabb's Battery: [114], footnote
"Radicals": [305], footnote
Rains, James S: [125]; makes Tahlequah headquarters of Eighth Division Missouri State Guard, [130], footnote; to attempt to reënter southwest Missouri, [194]; Cooper acts under orders from, [197]; in disgrace, [198]
Randolph, J.L: [267], footnote, [309], footnote
Randolph, George W: Pike makes complaint against Hindman, [156]-158; sympathy for Pike, [168]; desires to terminate Magruder's delay, [186]; suggests that Price serve as second in command under Magruder, [186], footnote; reassures Pike, [187], [189]; instructions to Holmes, [189]
Ratliff, Robert W: [121], footnote, [127]
Rector, Elias: [175], [181], footnote
Rector, H.M: [185], footnote
"Red Legs": [305], footnote
Red River: [20], [36], [248], [311], [315]
Reserve Indians: [112]; Pike negotiates successfully with, [173], footnote; volunteers authorized, [173]-174, footnote; disorders among, [182]; uprising against and murder of Leeper undertaken by, [182]-183; Tonkawas almost exterminated by, [184]; companies organized among, [266], footnote; fed by contract, [308], footnote
Reynolds, Thomas C: [287], footnote
Richardson, James D; work cited in footnotes on pages [21], [172], [278], [322]
Richardson, John M: [113]
Riddle's Station (Okla.): [276], footnote [293], [295], footnote
Ritchie, John: applies to Dole for new instructions, [106]; appraisement of, [106], footnote; dilatory in movements, [114], footnote; disagreement with Kile, [115], footnote; slow in putting in appearance at Humboldt, [115]; commands Second Regiment Indian Home Guards, [115]; conducts prisoners to Fort Leavenworth, [144]; allows men to run amuck at Shirley's Ford, [197]; dismissal from service recommended, [197]; Phillip's ranking officer, [325]
Roane, J.S: Arkansas left in care of, [128], [149]; asks forces of Pike, [149]; conduct in Mexican War criticised by Pike, [149], footnote; fights duel with Pike, [149], footnote; character, [199]; arrests Pike, [200]
Roberts, S.A: [308], footnote, [320], footnote
Robertson, W.S: [225] and footnote
Robinson, Charles: work cited in footnotes on pages [15], [70], [97], [98], [226]; appointment of Mitchell, [46], footnote; opposed to Lane's plans for revenge, [55]; approves of principle underlying Frémont's proclamation, [56]-57; opposed to enlistment of Indians, [57]; seeks aid of Prince, [58]; responsible for Stanton's contesting of Lane's seat, [59], footnote; Lane has no intention of obliging, [71], footnote; commissions for First Indian Expedition pouring in, [123], footnote; calls for volunteers against guerrillas, [205], footnote; relations with Stevens, [226], footnote
Robinson, William: [62], footnote
Rocky Creek (Clear Creek): [184], footnote
Roman, Alfred: work cited, [14], footnote, [34], footnote
Roman Catholic Mission: 87, footnote, [121], [241], footnote
Rosengarten, Joseph George: work cited, [118], footnote
Ross, John: attitude of faction of, towards proposed Confederate military occupation of Indian Territory, [15]; communicates with Pike on movements of Cherokee troops, [28], footnote; opposed to secession, [63], footnote; reported to have host ready to do service for U.S., [66], footnote; loyal to U.S., [74], footnote; communication from Weer, [134] and footnote, [135]; reply to Weer, [135]-136; submits documents justifying his own and tribal actions, [136]; receives peremptory order from Cooper, [137]; arrested by Greeno, [137]; suspected of collusion with captor, [137]-138, [192]; addresses himself to Hindman against Pike, [160]; on mission to Washington, [192] and footnote; formally deposed by convention called by secessionist Cherokees, [193]; receives monetary assistance, [214] and footnote; makes personal appeal to Lincoln to enable refugees to be returned to homes, [215]-216; and associates ready to negotiate for retrocession of Neutral Lands, [231]; Gillpatrick medium of diplomatic intercourse between, and First Indian Expedition, [271]
Ross, Mrs. W.P: work cited, [111], footnote
Ross, W.W: [234], footnote
Round Grove (Okla.): [126]
Russell, O.F: [152]-153
Sac and Fox Agency (Kans.): [54], footnote, [114], footnote; suggested removal of refugees to, [212]; tribes included within, [212]; Osages repair to, to confer with Dole, [238] and footnote
Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi: encounter refugees from Indian
Territory, [80]; offer home to refugees, [86]; reservation, [87]; receive Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, [213]; scheme of building houses for, [226] and footnote; Dole makes treaty with, [235]; claim against Creek refugees, [235], footnote; some Sacs confer with Carruth, [274], footnote; invited to inter-tribal council, [274]-275. footnote
St. Francis River: [20]
St. Joe (St. Joseph): [74], footnote, [116], [230]
St Louis Republican: [75], footnote
Salomon, Frederick: colonel of Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, [118]; in command at Fort Scott, [118]; left in command at Baxter Springs by Weer, [121]; in charge of First Brigade, First Indian Expedition, [125]; instructions to, with respect to Indian policy of U.S. government, [134]; deplorable equipment of troops, [138]; arrests Weer, [139]; gives reasons arrest, [140]-142; retrograde movement of, [142], [143], [147], [203]; establishes himself at Camp Quapaw, [146]; ordered by Blunt to send troops to support of Indian Brigade, [192]-193
Sam Checote: [62], footnote
Santa Fé Trail: to intercept trains on, [129], footnote, [267], footnote; Creek regiment to advance toward, [152]
Scales, J.A: [268], footnote, [277], footnote
Schaumburg, W.C: [305], footnote
Schoenmaker, John: [241], footnote
Schofield, John M: [106], footnote, [119], footnote, [196], [248], [249] and footnote, [260], [261], [293], [304] and footnote
Schurz, Carl: [41] and footnote, [42], footnote
Scott, S.S: acting commissioner of Indian affairs, [172], footnote; remarks of, [177], footnote; to investigate conditions in Indian Territory, [181]; hurries to Leased District, [184]; asks Governor Colbert to harbor fugitive Tonkawas, [184], footnote; sets out upon tour of inspection, [299]; made full commissioner, [299], footnote; reports to Holmes concerning neglect of Indian Territory, [300]; reports to Seddon prospects for three Indian brigades, [329]
Scott, T.M: [316], footnote
Scott, W.H: [287], footnote
Scott, Winfield S: [48], [56], [69], footnote
Scott County (Ark.): [20]
Scullyville (Okla.): [155], [325], and footnote
Second Brigade, First Indian Expedition: put under Judson, [125]
Second Choctaw Regiment: [312], footnote
Second Indian Brigade: [327]
Second Indian Expedition: Carruth and Martin act in anticipation of, [133], footnote; Blunt making plans for, [196] and footnote, [208], footnote; Blunt discovers that Indians stipulate care of families during absence, [215]
Second Indiana Battery: [118], [125]
Second Ohio Cavalry: [118], [119], footnote, [125]-126
Second Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles: commanded by Stand Watie, [25]; joins Pike at Cincinnati, [28]; takes position to observe enemy, [32]; guiltless of atrocities committed at Pea Ridge, [32]; makes way to Camp Stephens, [35]; detail sent with ammunition to main army, [35]; scouting along northern line of Cherokee country, [112]; desertions from, [145]
Second Regiment Indian Home Guards: miscellaneous in composition, [114] and footnote; men not yet mustered in, [121]; fills up after defeat of Confederates at Locust Grove, [132]; Corwin takes
command of, [144]; engagement at Shirley's Ford, [197]; component part of Phillips's Indian Brigade, [249]; Cherokee in composition, [252]; fought dismounted at Honey Springs, [288]; stationed at Mackey's Salt Works, [325]
Sedalia (Mo.): [13]
Seddon, James A: [270], footnote, [299], footnote, [317], footnote; instructs Scott to attend meeting of council at Armstrong Academy, [320]; Scott reports prospects of forming three Indian brigades, [329]
Seminole Battalion: [152], [312], footnote
Seminole Nation: [130]
Seminoles (Confederate): Murrow, agent, [162], footnote; Pike negotiates treaty with, [173], footnote; agree to furnish five companies of mounted volunteers, [173], footnote; Creeks and, want separate military department made of Indian Territory, [278]-279; disperse, [323]
Seminoles (Federal or Unionist): Carruth teacher among, [59]; destitution of refugee, [83], footnote; in First Regiment Indian Home Guards, [114] and footnote; attempt tribal reörganization, [228]
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (Confederate): Johnson's bill, [176]; members, [176], footnote
Senecas: [48], [204] and footnote
Seneca-Shawnees: refugees, [116], [204]; object to Wyandot treaty, [237], footnote
Shawnee Agency (Kans.): [236], footnote
Shawnee Reserve (Kans.): [205] and footnote
Shawnees: [48]; loyal to U.S., [66], footnote; in First Indian Expedition, [113], footnote; from Cherokee country made refugees, [116]; implicated in tragedy at Wichita Agency, [183]; Neosho Agency Indians seek refuge among, [204]; are depredated upon, [204], [205], footnote; Dole makes treaty with, [235]
Shelby, Jo: [45], [194], [200]
Sheridan, Philip H: work cited, [296], footnote
Sherman (Tex.): [190]
Sherman, William T: [44]
Shians (Cheyennes): [274], footnote
Shirley's Ford (Mo.): [197]
Shoal Creek (Mo.): [118], [120], footnote
Shoe-Nock-Me-Koe: [68], footnote
Shreveport (La.): [303], footnote
Sigel, Franz: [29]
Simms, W.E: [176], footnote
Sixth Kansas Cavalry: [249]
Slavery: [298], footnote
Smith, James M.C: [173], footnote
Smith, Caleb P: [60], footnote, [61], [99]; authorizes expenditure of funds for relief of refugees, [83]
Smith, John: [62], footnote
Smith, E. Kirby: [317]; seeks to reëmploy Pike for service among Indians, [201], [335] and footnote; assigned to command, [269]; approves Steele's adoption of Fabian policy, [297]; reply to Stand Watie, [297]-298, footnote; detaches command of Indian Territory from that of Arkansas, [303]; subscribes to idea of forming two Indian brigades, [310]; is stanchest of Steele's friends, [311]; opposed to three brigade plan and to promotion of Cooper implicit in it, [318]; commends work of Steele, [318]; address emended by Maxey, [330]; friend of Maxey, [334]; holds in abeyance orders for retirement of Maxey, [334], footnote; enters into convention with Canby, [335]
Smith's Mill: [28]
Snead, Thomas L: work cited, [15], footnote, [296], footnote
Snow, George C: [80], footnote, [83], footnote
Soda Springs (Okla.): [291], footnote
South, The: indifference towards West, [43]; love of home state, great bulwark of, [187]-188; Choctaws reported as wavering in allegiance to, [220]; Indian Territory as separate military entity comes too late into reckonings, [250]
Southern Confederacy: decisive results of battle of Pea Ridge, [13]; expected by Missouri to force situation for her, [18]; relation of Indian Territory determined by treaties of alliance, [21]; Pike's great purpose to save Indian Territory for, [22]-23; Weer suggests that Cherokee Nation dissolve its alliance with, [134]; management of Indian affairs of, [149]-150, [171]; view of obligations towards Indians, [174], footnote; policy with respect to guerrillas, [205], footnote; Wyandots refuse to throw in lot with, [206]; Kansas politicians want to punish Indians for going over to, [224]; Cherokees repudiate alliance with, [232]; Indians losing faith in, [273]-274; charged with bad faith by Cherokees, [279]-281; Indian devotion to, re-asserted, [317]; Indians pledge anew loyalty to, [323]
Southern Expedition: [73] and footnote
Southern Indian Regiments: [24]-25
Southern Superintendency (Confederate): establishment delayed by prolongation of Pike's mission, [175]; bill for establishment of, [176]
Southern Superintendency (Federal): [117], footnote
Southwestern District of Missouri: [26]-27
Southwestern Division of District of Missouri: [127]
Spavinaw Creek (Okla.): [130], [138]
Spavinaw Hills (Okla.): [127]
Spears, John: [279]
Speer, John: [43], footnote
Speight, J.W: brigade of, [246], footnote, [267], footnote
Spring, Leverett: work cited in footnotes on pages [15], [52], [97]
Spring River: [119], [126]; Shirley's Ford on, [197]
Staked Plains: [153]
Stand Watie: [159], footnote; colonel of Second Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles, [25]; men in poor trim and undisciplined, [28]; men take position as corps of observation, [32]; makes way to Camp Stephens, [35]; scouting, [112], [127]; engagements, [112], [113], [119] and footnote; encampment on Cowskin Prairie, [119]; home of, [127]; successful skirmishing commented upon, [152]; elected Principal Chief, [193]; Phillips compels, to re-cross Arkansas, [218]; in command of First Cherokee Regiment, [262], footnote; Steele's great reliance upon, [270]; cavalry raids, [272], [312]; forced to retire from Cabin Creek, [285]; commanded First and Second Cherokee at Honey Springs, [288]; complaints to Kirby Smith, [297], footnote; related to Boudinot, [300]; makes reports and appeals, [301]; proposed advancement, [309]; authorizes formation of Cherokee Brigade, [309]; Steele's appraisement of, [310]; skirmish at Barren Fork, [312]; has command of First Indian Brigade, [327]; all Cherokee military units summoned to camp on Limestone Prairie, [328]; name becomes source of terror, [331]; last great raid of, [332]
Stanton, Edwin M: [75], footnote, [76]; refuses to countenance use of Indians as soldiers, [76] and footnote; efficient administration of, [96]; deprecates interference in military affairs in Kansas, [98] and footnote
Stanton, Frederick P: [59], [72], footnote
State Department (Confederate): [171], [172], footnote
State Rights: [18]
Statutes at Large of Provisional Government: work cited, [174], footnote
Stearns, Frank Preston: work cited, in footnotes on pages [42], [87]
Steele, Frederick: in command of Department of Arkansas, [322]; argues over military status of Fort Smith, [321]-322
Steele, James: special agent, [100]; infers Halleck unfavorable to Indian expedition, [101]; presents credentials at arsenal at Fort Leavenworth, [101]; Sac and Fox chiefs willing to abide by decision, [235], footnote
Steele, William: [247]; to report to Holmes for duty, [245], footnote; preferred to Cooper, [246]; sends most of troops in direction of Red River, [248]; takes large view of responsibilities to Indian Territory, [253]; difficulties and embarrassments, [261]-269; appeal for loyalty to Confederate cause, [267]-268, footnote; ex officio superintendent of Indian affairs, [275]-276; regards Indian Territory as buffer, [276]; influences to undermine, [278]; makes stand in Creek country, [291]; opposition to, [310]; command in bad condition, [292]; crosses from Creek into Choctaw country, [295]; journeys to Bonham to consult with McCulloch, [302]-303; command detached from that of Arkansas, [303]; size of force, [305], footnote; work discredited and disparaged by Cooper, [306]; policy and practice in matter of feeding indigents and refugees, [307] and footnote; relieved of command of Indian Territory, [311]; Kirby Smith commends work, [318]
Stettaner Bros: [211], footnote
Stevens, Robert S: [211], footnote, [212], [226] and footnote
Stevens, Thaddeus: [57], [60], footnote
Stidham, George W: [62], footnote, [173], footnote
Stockton's Hall: [58] and footnote
Sturgis, S.D: Lane ordered to coöperate with, [56]; placed in command of District of Kansas, [98]; policy with respect to First Indian Expedition, [103]-104; opposed to idea of Indian expedition, [104]; military despotism, [104]; forbids enlistment of Indians, [105]; refusal to reinstate Weer, [117], footnote
Sugar Creek (Ark.): [30], footnote
Sumner, E.V: [260], footnote
Susquehanna River: [232]
Tahlequah (Okla.): [132], [136]; Rains makes headquarters, [130], footnote; Hindman places white cavalry at, [192]; Blunt's expeditionary force seizes archives and treasury of Cherokee Nation, [193]; Hindman appears in, [193]; steamer, [263], footnote
Talliaferro (Taliaferro?), T.D: [267], footnote
Tandy Walker: supporter of Cooper, [265]; recruits among Choctaws, [265]; appointment, [265], footnote; asks for establishment of Indian Territory as separate military department, [279]; commanded Regiment of Choctaws and Chickasaws at Honey Springs, [288]; indulging in petty graft, [306], footnote; service of Choctaws under, in Camden campaign, [326]; has command of Second Indian Brigade, [327]
Tawa Kuwus: [274], footnote
Taylor, N.G: [207], footnote
Taylor, R: [297], footnote
Taylor, Samuel M: [279]
Tecumseh: [73], footnote
Te-Nah: [65], footnote
Tenth Kansas Infantry: [117], [118]
Texans: assist Indians at Leetown
engagement, [31]; away fighting "the cold weather people," [65], footnote; circulate malicious stories about Pike, [160], footnote; disposition towards self-sacrifice, [268]; not possible to deal with Indians arbitrarily, [326]
Texas: [179]; requisition upon, for troops, [25]; Pike to call for troops from, [36]; way to, likely to be blocked by Southern Indians, [61]; Pike wants to be near, [151]; anti-Pike reports spreading through, [169]; road from Missouri to, [173], footnote; Oldham, senator from, [176], footnote; rumors current that Pike is conspiring with unionists, in, [199]; detached from Trans-Mississippi Department, [245]-246; cotton speculation alluring men with ready money, [248], footnote; public feeling towards deserters, [266], footnote; great commissary depot west of Mississippi, [268], footnote; Bankhead becomes alarmed for safety of, [287], [292]; virtual chaos in, [303]; Steele contracts for clothing in northern, [308]
Thayer, John M: [324] and footnote
Thayer, William Roscoe: work cited in footnotes on pages [41], [45], [96]
Third Choctaw Regiment: [321]
Thomas, L: [74]-75, footnote, [100], [109], footnote
Throckmorton, James W: [335], footnote
Thurston's House: [54], footnote
Timiny Barnet: [62], footnote
Tishomingo (Okla.): [200]
Toe-Lad-Ke: talk, [67], footnote; signature, [69], footnote
Tonkawas: negotiations with Pike, [182]; about one-half of, butchered, [184]; surviving, flee to Fort Arbuckle, [184] and footnote
Toombs, Robert: [171], footnote, [173], footnote
Totten, James: [197]
Trans-Mississippi Department: [128], footnote, [149], [168], [186], [187], [192], [245]-246, [269], [270] and footnote, [315], [318]-319
Trans-Mississippi District of Department no. 2: [14], [19], [20], [25], [127], footnote, [128], footnote, [190], [191]
Treaties of Alliance: [21], [23] and footnote, [173] and footnote
Trench, E.B: [215], footnote
Turner, E.P: [292], footnote
Turner, John W: [83] and footnote
Tus-te-nu-ke-ema-ela: [108], footnote
Tus-te-nuk-ke: [108], footnote
Upper Creeks: [62], footnote
Usher, John P: [231], [239], footnote
Van Buren (Ark.): [162], footnote, [177]
Van Dorn, Earl: [14], footnote, [20], [25], [26], [34], [35], [36]; appointment, [19]; failure to credit Indians in report, [31] and footnote, [148]; orders Indians to harass enemy on border of own country, [35]-36, [110]; telegraphic request to Davis, [127], footnote, [186]; diverts and appropriates Pike's supplies, [147]-148 and footnote; hopes Price will be successor, [185]
Vann's Ford: [144]
Vaughan, Champion: [305], footnote
Vaughn, Richard C: [218], footnote
Verdigris River: [76], [79], [80], [85], [142], [144], [145], [210]-211, footnote, [273], footnote; tributary of Arkansas, [22]
Vernon County (Mo.): [304], footnote
Vicksburg (Miss.): [188], footnote, [259], [260], [283], [301], footnote
Villard, Henry: work cited, [45], footnote
Villard, Oswald Garrison: work cited, [226], footnote
Vore, Israel G: [302] and footnote
Wakoes (Wacoes): [66], footnote; sent out as runners, [274], footnote
Walker, L.P: [172], footnote
Walnut Creek (Kans.): [79], [85], [152], [205], footnote
Walnut Grove: [35]
Walworth, E: [329], footnote
War Department (Confederate): [127], [172] and footnote, [186], [318]
War Department (Federal): 60 and footnote, [73], footnote, [76], [99], [100]
Warren (Tex.): [190]
Warrensburg (Mo.): [58]
Washington (George): [65], footnote
Washington Territory: [232]
Wattles, Augustus: [46], footnote, [54], footnote, [57], [225]-228
Wattles, Stephen H: [131], footnote, [333] and footnote
Weas: [77], footnote
Webber's Falls (Okla.): [216], [255], [260], [271], [276], [287], footnote
Weed, Thurlow: work cited, [60], footnote
Weer, William: [117] and footnote, [119], [120], [121], [130], [133]; ideas on Indian relations with U.S. government, [133], footnote; communication with Ross, [134]; proposes Cherokee Nation abolish slavery by vote, [134], footnote; sends out two detachments to reconnoitre, [136]; joins Campbell at Fort Gibson, [136]-137; faults and failures, [139], [140]-142; arrested by Salomon, [139]; Ritchie's men run amuck and attack their comrades in brigade of, [197]
Welch, O.G: [29]
Wells, J.W: [267], footnote
West, The: indifference towards, [43]; character of war in, [44]; character of leaders, [45]; criticism of Confederate management of Indian affairs in, [149]-150; establishment of Indian superintendency left unsettled by Provisional Government, 174-175; Price submits plan of operations for, [186], footnote; circumstances and conditions concerning migrations of eastern tribes, [227]; project for concentrating tribes in Indian Territory, [230], footnote; keep too many men needlessly in, [259]; desertions, [292] and footnote
Western Military District: [43], [47], footnote
West's Battery: [267], footnote
Whistler, W: [69], footnote
White, George E: [157], footnote
White Auxiliary (Confederate): urged by Pike, [24] and footnote; ordered to Little Rock, [129], [147]; Kirby Smith thinks possible to separate from Indian troops, [310]
White Auxiliary (Federal): Dole's recommendation regarding, [99]; Stanton's instructions regarding, [100]; not heard from, [102]; orders for, [109] and footnote; Indians ask for evidence of existence, [118]; composition, [118]; comparison with Indians, [123] and footnote; brigaded with Indian Home Guards, [125]; retrograde movement, [143], [203]; Blunt orders Salomon to send to support of Indian Brigade, [192]-193, [203]
White Chief: [68], footnote
White Cloud: [77], footnote
White Hair: [207], footnote, [238], footnote; principal chief of Osages, [240], footnote
Whitney, H.C: [50], footnote, [52], footnote, [54], footnote
Wichita Agency: [64], footnote; tragedy, [183]-184; Belmont, temporary, [274], footnote
Wichita Mountains: [153]
Wigfall, Louis T: [264], footnote, [277], footnote
Wilder, A. Carter: [230], footnote, [322], footnote
Wilder, D.W: [58], footnote, [305], footnote
Willamette River: [232]
Williams, James M: [284], [285]
Williams, the: [327]
Williamson, George: [327]
Wilson, Hill P: work cited, [226], footnote
Wilson's Creek (Mo.): battle of, [34], footnote, [49]
Wolcott, Edward: [83], footnote
Wolf Creek (Ark.): [135], [136], [145], [164]
Wood, W.D: [218], footnote
Woodburn, James Albert: work cited, [57], footnote, [60], footnote
Woodruff's Battery: [147], [150], [154]
Wright, Marcus J: work cited, [19], footnote, [187], footnote
Wyandot City (Kans.): [204], footnote
Wyandots: robbed by secessionist Indians, [206] and footnote; escape into Kansas, [206]; want to render military service, [206], footnote; Dole's abortive treaty with, [236]-237, footnote