Footnote 518: [(return)]
Official Records, vol. xiii, 531-532.
Footnote 519: [(return)]
—Ibid., 182.
Footnote 520: [(return)]
—Ibid., 552.
Footnote 521: [(return)]
—Ibid., 623, 648.
Footnote 522: [(return)]
Confederate Military History, vol. x, 129.
Footnote 523: [(return)]
Official Records, vol. xiii, 42.
vigor and order was shortly restored both north and south of the Arkansas. Guerrilla warfare was summarily suppressed, marauding stopped, and the perpetrators of atrocities so deservedly punished that all who would have imitated them lost their taste for such fiendish sport. As far north as the Moravian Mission, the Confederates were undeniably in possession; but, at that juncture, Holmes called Hindman to other scenes. A sort of apathy then settled like a cloud upon the Cherokee Nation[524]. Almost lifeless, it awaited the next invader.
One part of the programme, arranged for at the time of the re-districting of the Trans-Mississippi Department, had called for a scheme to reënter southwest Missouri. Hindman was to lead but Rains, Shelby, Cooper, and others were to constitute a sort of outpost and were to make a dash, first of all, to recover the lead mines at Granby. The Indians of both armies were drawn thitherward, the one group to help make the advance, the other to resist it. At Newtonia on September 30 the first collision of any moment came and it came and it ended with victory for the Confederates[525]. Cooper's Choctaws and Chickasaws fought valiantly but so also did Phillips's Cherokees. They lost heavily in horses[526], their own poorly shod ponies; but they themselves stood fire well. To rally them after defeat proved, however, a difficult matter. Their
Footnote 524: [(return)]
Report of M.W. Buster to Cooper, September 19, 1862, Official Records, vol. xiii, 273-277.