[198] General Files, ibid.; Official Records, first ser., vol. xiii, 492-493.
[199] The text of this is to be found in various places. The most convenient of such places are, Official Records, first ser., vol. xiii, 489-490 and Moore’s Rebellion Record, vol. ii, 145-146. A manuscript copy of the proclamation may be found in General Files, Cherokee, 1859-1865, C515; and a synopsis of its contents in Moore’s Rebellion Record, vol. ii, 1-2.
[200] Ross gave the citizens of Boonsboro their direct answer, May 18, 1861 [General Files, Cherokee, 1859-1865, C515; Official Records, first ser., vol. xiii, 494-495].
[201] The official list of members of the Confederate congresses can be found in Official Records, fourth ser., vol. iii, 1185-1191.
[202] Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Journal, vol. i, 70.
[203] —Ibid., 81.
[204] Under the second section of the law of February 21, 1861, Indian affairs had been left for general supervision to the War Department [Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States and Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress, 48]. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, created by the law of March 15, 1861, was made a bureau of the War Department.
[205] Provisional Congress Journal, vol. i, 142; Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Confederacy.
[206] Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, 133-134.
[207] Provisional Congress Journal, vol. i, 154.