SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES.
The material for this book has been drawn almost entirely from documentary sources and, in a very large measure, from unpublished documentary sources; namely, the manuscript records of the United States Indian Office. Those records to-day are in a very disorganized state, largely due to change of system and to the many removals to which they have been subjected within the last few years. At the time when they were examined for the purposes of the present work, such of them as were not included in Registers, Letter Books, and Report Books were classified as Land Files, General Files, Special Files, Emigration Files, Miscellaneous Files, Star Files, and the like, the basis of classification being, convenience in the current and routine work of the office. The individual files were arranged according to tribe, agency, or superintendency and every incoming letter had its own file mark. It had a letter to designate the transmitter, that letter being the initial of the transmitter’s surname or of the office he represented, and it had a number to indicate its rank in a series, all the papers of which bore the same initial letter and had been received in the same given year. Finally, it was rated as belonging to a particular tribe, agency, or superintendency and to a particular file.
In the autumn of 1911, an attempt was made to consolidate the old Land and General Files with the result that now they are no longer distinct from each other; but it has seemed best not to change the reference in the citations. The year, the letter, and the number are permanent indices and, with them at hand, there ought to be no difficulty in the locating of a paper, except for the fact that nearly everything in the United States Indian Office seems, just now, rather transitory and chaotic. Had the inaugural ball for 1913 not been dispensed with, the plan was, to use the records as the base for the band-stand, a decidedly interesting reflection, one must admit, upon the popular notion of the value of the national archives.
Among the manuscripts used in the preparation of the present work, were two collections of papers that came into the United States Indian Office out of the regular course of its official business. In the citations, one is noted as Leeper Papers, and the other as Fort Smith Papers. Their history, since they came into the Indian Office, proves how urgent is the need for a Hall of Records. Inasmuch as these papers were not required for the every-day business of the office, they were packed away, years and years ago, along with a lot of other commercially useless papers, in huge boxes and stored in the attic of the old Post-office Building. There they were left to be forgotten. In the course of time, the Office of Indian Affairs was moved from the old Post-office Building to the Pension Building; but the packing-boxes in the attic were inadvertently left behind. One day, however, the writer discovered that papers, found at the Wichita Agency at the time Agent Leeper was killed, October, 1862, had really come into the Indian Office; but the question was, where were they? A search high and low was totally without success until it developed that the packing-boxes in the attic were supposed to contain “useless” papers and were still in the old Post-office Building. Permission was obtained to have them examined and, for this purpose, they were transferred to the Pension Building. Among their contents was found a number of interesting and valuable documents which very likely would soon have been lost forever, destroyed by the General Land Office because abandoned by the Indian. The contents included, besides the Leeper Papers for which the search had been especially conducted, letter-books of Michigan territorial governors, file-boxes of all sorts, and a mass of Confederate stuff, brought from Fort Smith. The last-named proved a veritable mine of wealth. It comprised the occasional correspondence of Cooper, Cowart, Crawford, Drew, Dean, Rector, Pike, and many others whose official life had brought them into contact with the Indians. It was all very suggestive and remunerative.
To supplement the manuscripts an exhaustive search of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion has been made and with good results. It is a pity that the material in the Official Records is so badly arranged and so much of it duplicated and often triplicated. Had it been better edited and better indexed, the danger of over-looking important documents would have been minimized a hundredfold. The volumes found particularly useful for Indian participation in the Civil War were the following:
First Series, vols. i; iii; iv; viii; ix; xiii; xxii, parts 1 and 2; xxvi, parts 1 and 2; xxxiv, parts 1, 2, and 3; xli, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4; xlviii, parts 1 and 2; liii, supplement.
Third Series, vols. i; ii; iii.
Fourth Series, vols. i; ii; iii.
II. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SOURCES
American Annual Cyclopedia, 1861-1865, inclusive (New York).
Arkansas. Journal of the House of Representatives for the Thirteenth Session of the General Assembly, November 5, 1860-January 21, 1861 (Little Rock, 1861).
—— Journal of the Convention, 1861.
—— Messages of the Governors.
Buchanan, James. Works, collected and edited by John Basset Moore (Philadelphia, 1908-1911), 12 vols.
Cairnes, J. E. Slave Power: its character, career, and probable designs (New York, 1863), pamphlet.
Confederate States of America. Journal of the Congress, 1861-1865. (United States Senate Executive Documents, 58th congress, second session, no. 234).
—— Provisional and permanent constitutions; and acts and resolutions of the first session of the Provisional Congress (Richmond, 1861).
—— Special orders of the adjutant and inspector general’s office, 1862 (Richmond, 1862).
Connelley, William E., editor. Provisional government of Nebraska Territory and the Journals of William Walker [Lincoln, Nebraska, 1899].
Dean, Charles W. Letter Book, May 26, 1855 to December 31, 1856 (Manuscript in United States Indian Office).
Drew, Thomas S. Letter Book, June 1, 1853 to June 1, 1854 (Manuscript in United States Indian Office).
Fort Smith Papers. A miscellaneous collection of manuscript materials, transmitted from Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the close of the Civil War. Among them is the fragment of one of Elias Rector’s Letter Books.
—— Minutes of the private meetings of the commissioners, 1865 (Land Files, Indian Talks, Councils, etc., Box 4).
Hagood, Johnson. Memoirs of the War of Secession from the original manuscripts of Johnson Hagood (Columbia, S. C., 1912).
Kappler, Charles J., compiler and editor. Indian affairs: Laws and Treaties (United States Senate Documents, 58th congress, Second session, no. 319), 2 vols.
Leeper Papers. Manuscripts, chiefly letters written or received by Matthew Leeper, successively United States and Confederate States Indian Agent, brought from the Wichita Agency after the massacre of October, 1862.
Lincoln, Abraham. Writings, edited by A. B. Lapsley (New York, 1905-1906), 8 vols.
—— Complete Works, edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay (New York, 1894), 2 vols.
McPherson, Edward. Political history of the United States of America during the Great Rebellion (Washington, 1864).
Mason, Emily V. Southern poems of the war (Baltimore, 1867).
Matthews, James M., editor. Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America from February 8, 1861 to February 18, 1862, together with the constitution of the provisional government and the permanent constitution of the Confederate States, and the treaties concluded by the Confederate States with the Indian tribes (Richmond, 1864).
—— Statutes at Large of the first congress of the Confederate States of America (Richmond, 1862), pamphlet.
—— Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America, commencing the first session of the first congress and including the first session of the second congress (Richmond, 1864).
Missouri. Adjutant-general’s report of the Missouri State Militia for 1861 (St. Louis, 1862).
Moore, Frank, editor. Diary, or Rebellion record (New York, 1868), 11 vols. and a supplementary volume for 1861-1864.
Newspapers. Arkansas Baptist (Little Rock).
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock).
Arkansas Intelligencer (Van Buren).
Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock).
Chronicle, The (Little Rock).
Daily National Democrat (Little Rock).
Daily State Journal (Little Rock).
National Democrat (Little Rock).
State Rights Democrat, The (Little Rock).
Unconditional Union (Little Rock).
Weekly Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock).
Phisterer, Frederick. Statistical record of the armies of the United States (New York, 1890).
Supplementary volume to the Campaigns of the Civil War Series.
Pike, Albert. Poems, edited by his daughter, Mrs. Lillian Pike Roome (Little Rock, 1900).
Raines, C. W., editor. Six decades in Texas, or the memoirs of F. R. Lubbock (Austin, 1890).
Rector, Elias. Letter Book.
A Fragment. Ms. in United States Indian Office among the Fort Smith Papers. Many of the letters have been almost obliterated by exposure.
Richardson, James D., editor. Compilation of the messages and papers of the Confederacy, including the diplomatic correspondence (Nashville, 1905), 2 vols.
—— Compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897 (Washington, 1896-1899), 10 vols.
Seward, William H. Works, edited by G. E. Baker (New York, 1853-1884), 5 vols.
Smith, William R. History and debates of the convention of the people of Alabama, January 7, 1861 (Montgomery, 1861).
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—— Report of Covode committee, 1860 (House Reports, 36th congress, first session, no. 648).
—— Report of select committee to investigate abstraction of bonds held in trust by the United States government for the Indian tribes (House Reports, 36th congress, second session, no. 78).
—— Department of the Interior, Reports of the Secretary, 1861-1865, inclusive.
—— Office of Indian Affairs, Land Files, General Files, Miscellaneous Files, and Special Files.
—— Office of Indian Affairs, Letter Books [letters sent]:
United States of America. Office of Indian Affairs, Registers (letters received):
| No. | 44, January 4, 1855 to July 31, 1855. |
| " | 45, August 1, 1855 to December 31, 1855. |
| " | 46, January 1, 1856 to June 30, 1856. |
| " | 47, July 1, 1856 to December 31, 1856. |
| " | 48, January 1, 1857 to June 30, 1857. |
| " | 49, July 1, 1857 to December 31, 1857. |
| " | 50, January 1, 1858 to June 25, 1858. |
| " | 51, June 25, 1858 to December 29, 1858. |
| " | 52, December 30, 1858 to June 27, 1859. |
| " | 53, June 28, 1859 to December 31, 1859. |
| " | 54, January 1, 1860 to June 1, 1860. |
| " | 55, June 1, 1860 to December 31, 1860. |
| " | 56, January 1, 1861 to June 30, 1861. |
| " | 57, July 1, 1861 to December 31, 1861. |
| " | 58, January 1, 1862 to July 1, 1862. |
| " | 59, July 1, 1862 to December 31, 1862. |
| " | 60, January 1, 1863 to June 30, 1863. |
| " | 61, July 1, 1863 to January 2, 1864. |
| " | 62, January 2, 1864 to May 30, 1864. |
| " | 63, June 1, 1864 to December 31, 1864. |
| " | 64, January 1, 1865 to June 30, 1865. |
| " | 65, July 1, 1865 to December 29, 1865. |
United States of America. Office of Indian Affairs, Report Books:
| No. | 8, May 1, 1854 to August 9, 1855. |
| " | 9, August 10, 1855 to December 31, 1856. |
| " | 10, January 1, 1857 to March 31, 1858. |
| " | 11, April 1, 1858 to September 2, 1860. |
| " | 12, September 3, 1860 to December 9, 1862. |
| " | 13, December 12, 1862 to August 19, 1864. |
| " | 14, August 20, 1864 to December 12, 1865. |
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Welles, Gideon. Diary (Boston, 1911), 3 vols.
III. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORITIES
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Evans, General Clement A., editor. Confederate military history (Atlanta, 1899), 10 vols.
Fite, Emerson David. Presidential campaign of 1860 (New York, 1911).
Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (New York, 1905).
Foulke, William Dudley. Life of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, 1899), 8 vols.
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Gihon, John H. Geary and Kansas (Philadelphia, 1866).
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Martin, George W. First two years of Kansas (Topeka, 1907), pamphlet.
Meigs, W. M. Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Philadelphia, 1904).
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Parker, Thomas Valentine. Cherokee Indians (New York, 1907).
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Phillips, Ulrich. Georgia and state rights (Washington, 1902).
—— The life of Robert Toombs (New York, 1913).
Ramsdell, Charles Wm. Reconstruction in Texas (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, vol. xxxvi, no. 1).
Ray, P. Orman. Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, its origin and authorship (Cleveland, 1909).
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Robinson, Charles. Kansas Conflict (Lawrence, 1898).
Robley, T. F. History of Bourbon County, Kansas, to the close of 1865 (Fort Scott, 1894).
Ross, D. H. and others. Reply of the delegates of the Cherokee Nation to the demands of the commissioner of Indian affairs, May, 1866 (Washington, 1866), pamphlet.
Land Files, Treaties, Box 3, M392.
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Schwab, John Christopher. Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 (New York, 1901).
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Van Deventer, Horace. Albert Pike, 1809-1891 (Knoxville, 1910).
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Wooten, Dudley G. Comprehensive history of Texas (Dallas, 1898), 2 vols.