[577] Van Dorn to Price, February 7, 1862 [Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 749].

[578] Cooper to Pike, February 10, 1862 [ibid., vol. xiii, 896].

[579] Walker to Cooper, May 13, 1861 [Official Records, first ser., vol. iii, 574-575].

[580] Report of Albert Pike, dated Fort McCulloch, May 4, 1862 [ibid., vol. xiii, 819].

[581] Van Dorn, Report to Bragg, March 27, 1862 [Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 283].

[582] Van Dorn to Mackall, February 27, 1862 [ibid., 755].

[583] Maury to Pike, March 3, 1862 [ibid., 763-764].

[584] Maury to Pike, March 3, 1862 [ibid., 764].

[585] Maury to Drew, McIntosh, and Stand Watie, March 3, 1862 [Official Records, first ser., vol. viii, 764].

[586] This will be discussed fully in a later volume.