Pike, Albert: [128]; assigned to command of Department of Indian Territory, [20]; report submitted to Davis, [21]; report to be found in U.S. War Department, [21], footnote; makes headquarters at Cantonment Davis, [22]; anxious to save Indian Territory for South, [22]-23; ordered to join Van Dorn with Indians, [27]; becomes ranking officer in field, [31]; criticism in New York Tribune, [31], footnote; authorizes Indian fighting at Pea Ridge, [32]; rejoins army at Cincinnati, [35]; receives orders from Maury, [36]; talk with Comanches, [65], footnote; negotiations with Upper Creeks, [66], footnote; negotiations with Seminoles, [68], footnote; intrenches himself at Fort McCulloch, [110]; report on Indian military activity, [112]; ordered to send more important of forces to Little Rock, [147]; protests against orders of May 31 and June 17, [154]-156; objects to appointment of Pearce, [156]; reports grievances to Randolph, [156]; Cherokees exasperated by stay at Fort McCulloch, [159]; letter to Stand Watie, [159], footnote; John Ross complains of, [160]; prepares resignation, [161]; indites conciliatory letter to Hindman, [162]-163; student of art of war, [163]; publishes circular address to Southern Indians, [165]; effect of circular, 166 and footnote; correspondence with Davis, [167]-168; arrested by Cooper, [169]; entered upon diplomatic career as agent of Confederate State Department, [171]-172 and footnote; exceeded instructions in assuming financial obligations, [174], footnote; considers remuneration, [175], footnote; makes important recommendations to Davis, [179]; applies to Holmes for leave of absence, [190]; resignation, [191] and footnote; reënters Indian Territory, [198]; rumors of conspiracy with unionists in Texas, [199]; arrested, [200]; sums up grievances in letter to Holmes, [201], Appendix; Kirby Smith attempts to reëmploy for service among Indians of Plains, [201], [335]; Steele takes umbrage at published statement, [286], footnote
"Pins": [193], [268], footnote
Planter's House: [74], footnote, [94], footnote
Pocahontas (Ark.): [25]
Poison Spring (Ark.): battle of, [326]-327
Pomeroy, Samuel C: [41], footnote; elected senator from Kansas, [42]; John Brown's opinion of, [42], footnote; endorses principle underlying Frémont's emancipation proclamation, [56]-57 instructed by anti-Coffin conspirators, [88], footnote; protests against appointment of Denver, [97]; succeeds in preventing appointment of Denver, [98]; responsibility for Blunt's promotion, [107], footnote; advocates confiscation of Cherokee Neutral Lands, [224]; recommends concentration of tribes of West in Indian Territory, [230], footnote; in company of Dole at Leroy, [239], footnote
Pontiac: [31], footnote
Portlock, E.E: [329], footnote
Poteau River (Okla.): [297], footnote