The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

by Annie Heloise Abel

Footnote 578: [(return)]

In October, Coffin put the number of refugees, inclusive of the Cherokees on Drywood Creek, at almost seven thousand five hundred [Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report 1862, p. 137] and asked for sixty-nine thousand dollars for their support during the third quarter of 1862 [Coffin to Mix, September 16, 1862, Indian Office General Files, Southern Superintendency, 1859-1862].

Footnote 579: [(return)]

Kile to Dole, July 25, 1862, ibid.

Footnote 580: [(return)]

Kile to Blunt, September 2, 1862, ibid.

Footnote 581: [(return)]

Cutler to Coffin, September 30, 1862, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1862, 139.

Footnote 582: [(return)]

Coleman to Coffin, September 30, 1862, ibid., 141.

Footnote 583: [(return)]

Coffin to Mix, August 30, 1862, Indian Office General Files, Southern Superintendency, 1859-1862: same to same, September 13, 1862, ibid.

Footnote 584: [(return)]

Carruth and Martin to Coffin, September 28, 1862, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1862, 167.

Footnote 585: [(return)]

"In replying to the several interrogatorys contained in your letter of the 11th inst, I shall base my answer entirely upon my own (cont.)

In the contest that ensued between the military and civil authorities or between Blunt and Coffin,[⁵⁸⁶] Coffin triumphed, although Blunt made no concealment of his