[457] Letter of August 15, 1861 [Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1861, p. 39].
[458] General Orders, no. 23 [Official Records, first ser., vol. iii, 539].
[459] Villard says, as early as 1856, rivalry had developed between Robinson and Lane [John Brown, 108].
[460] Thomas to Frémont, October 14, 1861 [Official Records, first ser., vol. iii, 533].
[461] Lane to Lincoln, October 9, 1861 [ibid., 529].
[462] It would seem as if Lane were remotely responsible for the division of the Western Department into the Department of Kansas and the Department of Missouri. In his letter to President Lincoln of October 9, 1861, he described the good work that his Kansas Brigade had done and asked that, in order that it might be enabled to continue to do effective work, a new military department be created, one that should group together Kansas, Indian Territory, and so much of Arkansas and the territories as should be advisable [ibid.].
[463] Ross’s Address to Drew’s Regiment, December 19, 1861 [Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, p. 355]; Letter of Albert Pike to D. N. Cooley, February 17, 1866.
“Chisholm” the well known interpreter has been sent to the Comanches, Creeks to the Osages—Matthews to the Senecas Quapaws &c. ...—Robertson in a letter, dated St. Louis, September 30, 1861 [General Files, Southern Superintendency, 1859-1862, R1615].
... In the fall of the same year Albert Pike called a General Council of the same tribes to meet at Talloqua and in order to secure their attendance stated that John Ross was to make a speech ... he sent Dorn late U. S. Indian Agent to notify the Osages, Quapaws Senecas & Shawnees that there was to be a Council at Talloqua and that Ross was going to talk at the same time to tell them that the U. S. Government was breaking up—that they would get no more money and that they were about to send an Army to take their Negroes and drive them from the country and pointed to Missouri in proof of it, when the Council met at Talloqua instead of Ross the council was opened by Pike who told them “We are here to protect our property and to save our Country.”...—Baptiste Peoria.