The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

by Annie Heloise Abel

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Daily Conservative, February 18, 1862.

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Congressional Globe, 37th congress, second session, part i, 835, 878.

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Dole to Smith, March 13, 1862 [Indian Office Report Book, no. 12, 331-332].

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Coffin to Dole, March 3, 1862 [ibid., Consolidated Files, Southern Superintendency, C 1544 of 1862; Letters Registered, no. 58].

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Daily Conservative, March 5, 1862.

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Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1862, 148.

expeditionary force of two white regiments and two[²²³] thousand Indians, appropriately armed. To expedite matters and to obviate any difficulties that might otherwise beset the carrying out of the plan, a semi-confidential agent, on detail from the Indian Office, was sent west with despatches[²²⁴] to Halleck and with an order[²²⁵] from the Ordnance Department for the delivery, at Fort Leavenworth, of the requisite arms. The messenger was Judge James Steele, who, upon reaching St. Louis, had already discouraging news to report to Dole. He had interviewed Halleck and had found him in anything but a helpful mood, notwithstanding that he must, by that time, have received and reflected upon the following communication from the War Department:

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON CITY, D. C, March 19, 1862.
MAJ. GEN.H.W. HALLECK,