[514] —Ibid., vol. viii, 690.
[515] Daily State Journal (Little Rock), Nov. 8, 1861.
[516] Colonel D. H. Cooper’s “Report” [Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 5].
[517] Colonel D. H. Cooper’s “Report” [Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 7, 709].
[518] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, pp. 355-357.
[519] Extract from John Ross’s address to Drew’s regiment [Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, p. 356].
[520] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1865, p. 357.
[521] —Ibid.
[522] McIntosh, at the time, was in charge of McCulloch’s brigade, McCulloch having gone to Richmond to explain to the authorities there why he had persistently laid himself open to the charge of refusing to coöperate with Sterling Price in his many Missouri ventures, planned subsequent to the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. McCulloch’s orders from the Confederate War Department were that he should guard the Indian Territory. Price’s great idea was to occupy the Missouri River country. Had McCulloch gone northward with Price, he would, as he ably argued, have removed himself altogether from his base.
[523] Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 11.