The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

by Annie Heloise Abel

Footnote 18: [(return)]

Official Records, vol. liii, supplement, 816-817.

Footnote 19: [(return)]

Ibid., 762.

Footnote 20: [(return)]

—Ibid., vol. viii, 725.

Footnote 21: [(return)]

—Ibid., 701.

Footnote 22: [(return)]

Wright, General Officers of the Confederate Army, 33, 67.

Footnote 23: [(return)]

Official Records, vol. viii, 702.

Footnote 24: [(return)]

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States, vol. i, 637.

Footnote 25: [(return)]

Formby, American Civil War, 129.

time it was made, to put an end to all local disputes and to give Missouri the attention she craved. The ordnance department of the Confederacy had awakened to a sense of the value of the lead mines[²⁶] at Granby and Van Dorn was instructed especially to protect them.[²⁷] His appointment, moreover, anticipated an early encounter with the Federals in Missouri. In preparation for the struggle that all knew was impending, it was of transcendent importance that one mind and one interest should control, absolutely.