[155] Captain S. T. Benning to Walker, May 14, 1861 [Official Records, first ser., vol. i, 653.]
[156] —Ibid.
[157] Leeper to Rector, January 13, 1862 [Leeper Papers].
[158] A note, communicated by X. B. Debray, aide-de-camp to the Governor of Texas, to Walker and dated, Richmond, August 28, 1861, says,
The governor of Texas being convinced that the integrity of the soil of Texas greatly depends upon the success of the Southern cause in Missouri, and moved by an appeal to the people of Arkansas and Texas (published at the beginning of July by General Ben. McCulloch) ordered on the 25th ultimo the raising and concentration on Red River of 3,000 mounted men, besides the regiment commanded by Col. W. C. Young, which has been occupying for several months Forts Arbuckle, Cobb, and Washita, under authority of Texas, and at the request of the Chickasaw Indians.—Official Records, first ser., vol. iv, 98.
[159] House Journal, Arkansas, 1861, p. 304.
[160] Confederate Military History, vol. x, 4.
[161] Confederate Military Hillary, vol. x, 7.
[162] Two letters found among the Fort Smith Papers may serve, in a measure, to illustrate the point:
Little Rock, Arks, Jany 6, 1861.