[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;