The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist / An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

by Annie Heloise Abel

[407] —Ibid., 635.

[408] Official Records, first ser., vol. iii, 574.

[409] Chief Justice M. H. McWillie of La Mesilla, Arizona, was among the number. See his letter to President Davis, June 30, 1861, quoted in Official Records, vol. iv, 96.

[410] Official Records, first ser., vol. iii, 578-579.

[411] —Ibid., vol. i, 618.

[412] Letter to Johnson, May 11, 1861, ibid., vol. iii, 572.

[413] Letter to Toombs, May 20, 1861, ibid., 581.

[414] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1861, p. 14.

[415] Act of March 2, 1861, U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. xii, 239.

[416] On the twenty-second of May, Whitney reported, generally, on the condition of several tribes: