The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

by Annie Heloise Abel

Footnote 838: [(return)]

(cont.) vol. xxxiv, part ii, 859; vol. xii, part ii, 997; Sheridan, Memoirs, vol. ii, 340.

Footnote 839: [(return)]

Blunt to Schofield, August 27, 1863, Official Records, vol. xxii, part i. 597-598; Steele to Snead, September 8, 1863, Confederate Records, chap. 2, no. 268, p. 223.

Footnote 840: [(return)]

Official Records, vol. xxii, part ii, 983.

Footnote 841: [(return)]

W.T. Carrington to Bankhead, August 22, 1863, ibid., 975.

Footnote 842: [(return)]

Bankhead to Turner, August 23, 1863, ibid., 977. Near Boggy Depot, "the Fort Gibson and Fort Smith roads" forked. At Boggy Depot, moreover, were "all the stores of the Indian Department." With Boggy Depot in the hands of the enemy, Bankhead's whole front would be uncovered [Bankhead to Turner August 20, 1863, ibid., 972].

Footnote 843: [(return)]

Duval to Bankhead and other commanders, August 27, 1863, ibid., 981.

Footnote 844: [(return)]

Blunt to Schofield, August 27, 1863, ibid., part i, 597. He thought, however, that Stand Watie was with Steele but he was not. He was absent on a scout [Steele to Boggs, August 30, 1863, ibid., part ii, 984].

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Steele to Snead, September 11, 1863, ibid., part ii, 1012.

towards Fort Smith.[⁸⁴⁶] It was Fort Smith that now engaged Blunt's attention and thither he directed his steps, Colonel W.F. Cloud[⁸⁴⁷] of the Second Kansas Cavalry, who, acting under orders from General McNeil,[⁸⁴⁸] had coöperated with him at Perryville, being sent on in advance. Fort Smith surrendered with ease, not a blow being struck in her defence;[⁸⁴⁹] but there was Cabell yet to be dealt with.