[482] Cooley’s Report to President Johnson, February 25, 1866. This letter was found in the loose files of the Indian Office and is not to be found in Indian Office, Report Book, no. 15, where it would properly belong.

[483] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, p. 321.

[484] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1861, p. 35: Indian Office, Report Book, no. 12, p. 176.

[485]

Enclosed pleaz find a coppy of a Commission given by General Lane to E. H. Carruth together with coppies of Letters sent by him to the various Tribes in the Indian Territory. I had an interview with Mr. Carruth yesterday. I find him a very Inteligent man and thougherly posted as to all matters relating to the Southern Indians he is very confident that most if not all the Southern Indians written to will Send deligations to Fort Scott as requested there ware three Creek Indians came up to se General Lane who came to Iola for Caruthe to go with them to General Lane which he did and they ware the barers of letters of which the enclosed are coppies. I am going to Fort Scott today and will make arrangements with Agent Elder to give the notice imediately on their arrival or Bring them to Humboldt. I shall try to secure the assistance of Mr. Caruthe tho he is now a voluntear in the Home Guards for protection. I very much feer the service required of me at the Sacks & Fox and Kaw agencies will take me to far off but will try to attend to all if possible—General Files, Southern Superintendency, 1859-1862, C1348.

[486] Manypenny to Dean, April 9, 1855 [Indian Office, Letter Book, no. 51, pp. 232-233].

[487] Extract from commission, dated Fort Scott, August 30, 1861, issued to Carruth by authority of J. H. Lane, Commanding the Kansas Brigade [ibid.].

[488] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, p. 328.

[489] The loyal Creeks testified, in 1865, that they sent their “chief” and others to Washington and leave the reader to infer that the chief meant was “Sands;” but the accredited delegates were most certainly Mik-ko Hut-kee, Bob Deer, and Jo Ellis. These three men signed their names, or rather attached their mark, to an address to the president of which the following is a certified copy:

Shawnee Agency, Lexington, September 18, 1861.