be taken as type, 45; redoubles efforts for organizing brigade, 49; empowered to recruit, 50; conceives idea of utilizing Indians, 50, 57; abandons Fort Scott, 52; throws up breastworks at Fort Lincoln, 52; proceeds to seek revenge in spite of Robinson’s opposition, 55; burns Osceola, 55; attitude towards slavery, 56; suggests re-organization of military districts on frontier, 58; disconcerted by appointment of Hunter, 66-69; plans for inter-tribal council, 69; Denver had measured swords with, 70; control over Federal patronage in Kansas, 71; nominated brigadier-general, 71; friction between Hunter and, 74-76; instructed by anti-Coffin conspirators, 88, _footnote_; protests to Lincoln against appointment of Denver, 97; succeeds in preventing appointment of Denver, 98; responsible for Blunt’s promotion, 107, _footnote_; Phillips appointed on staff, 126, _footnote_; endorses request of Agent Johnson, 207, _footnote_; introduces resolution for extending southern boundary of Kansas, 223; denounces Stevens as defaulter, 226, _footnote_; opposed to Gamble, Schofield, and Curtis, 249, _footnote_; belongs to party of
_Extremists_, 305, _footnote_; requests that Blunt be summoned to Washington for conference, 322, _footnote_
Lane, W.P: 266, _footnote_
Lane’s Kansas Brigade: 41, 43, 49, 51, 58, 59, 71; relation to Hunter’s command, 72 and _footnote_; marauding committed, 75, _footnote_; prospective Indian element dispensed with, 77
Lawler, J.J: 204, _footnote_
Lawrence (Kans.): 62, _footnote_, 73, _footnote_; Quantrill’s raid upon, 238, _footnote_; Dole detained by raid upon, 239
Lawrenceburg (Ind.): 43, _footnote_
Lawrence _Republican_: 58, _footnote_
Leased District (Okla.): 181-182, 198
Leavenworth _Daily Conservative_: 58, _footnote_
Lee, Robert E: 186, _footnote_, 187
Lee, R.W: 307, _footnote_
Leeper, Matthew: authorized to enlist men, 173, _footnote_; departs for Texas, 183; murder, 183
Leetown (Ark.): 30, 31
Leroy (Kans.): 86, 229, 239 and _footnote_; arrangements for keeping cattle, 54, _footnote_; Lane builds stockades, 55; council held by Cutler at, 62, _footnote_; substituted for Humboldt as place for council, 69; sessions of council, 69-70; Indian Brigade left, for Humboldt, 115, _footnote_; Weer returns to, 121; some Quapaws at, 204, _footnote_; Osages at, 207; Blunt thinks refugees not properly cared for, 215; Dole negotiates with Osages at, 239 and _footnote_
Lexington (Mo.): 52, _footnote_, 55
Limestone Gap: 111, _footnote_
Limestone Prairie: 328
Lincoln, Abraham: 71, 72 and _footnote_, 211, _footnote_; suggests Hunter’s falling back, 13; calls for volunteers, 41; approached by Phelps and Blair, 49; popularity asserted, 54, _footnote_; fears Fremont’s supineness, 56; Lane urged to seek interview with, 58; appointment of Cameron mistake, 60; attention solicited by Dole, 61; sickness in family, 76, _footnote_; refugees appeal to, 87 and _footnote_; estimate of Halleck, 96; protests to, against appointment of Denver, 97; wires Halleck to defer assignment of Denver, 97-98; responsible for Blunt’s promotion, 107, _footnote_; Ross to intercede with, 192, _footnote_; inquires into practicability of occupying Cherokee country, 216; selects Schofield to succeed Curtis, 260; Amnesty Proclamation distributed among Indians, 322
Lindsay’s Prairie: 216
Linn County (Kans.): 101, _footnote_
Lipans: 274, _footnote_
Little Arkansas River: 275, _footnote_
Little Bear: 240, _footnote_
Little Bear Band of Osages: 238, _footnote_
Little Blue River (Okla.): 151, _footnote_
Little Boggy (Okla.): 112
Little Osage River: 45, 52
Little Rock (Ark.): 36, 63, _footnote_, 190; Van Dorn assumes command at, 25; Hindman assumes command at, 128; Hindman orders Pike to move part of forces to, 147; Scott endeavours to interview Holmes in, 299
Livermore, William Roscoe: work cited in _footnotes_ on 260, 269, 270
Locust Grove (Okla.): skirmish at, 33, 131-132; Clarkson’s commissary captured at, 138; defeat of Confederates at, counted heavily against Pike, 161
Lo-ka-la-chi-ha-go: 109, _footnote_
Lo-ga-po-koh: 109, _footnote_
Long Tiger: 103, _footnote_
Longtown Creek (Okla.): 295, _footnote_
Louisiana: portion included within Trans-Mississippi District, 20; requisition upon, for troops, 25; portion included within Trans-Mississippi Department, 192 and _footnote_; western, detached from Trans-Mississippi Department, 246
Love, William DeLoss: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 118, 138
Lower Creeks: 62, _footnote_
Lyon, Nathaniel: work to be repeated, 14; insight into Indian character, 48; death, 49
McClellan, George B: 13, 75, _footnote_, 96
McClish, Fraser: 62, _footnote_
McCulloch, Ben: refuses to cooeperate with Price, 14, 56; takes position in Arkansas, 15; relations with leading Confederates in Arkansas and Missouri, 16; little in common with Price, 17; indifference towards Missouri, 18; proceeds to Richmond to discuss matters in controversy, 19; driven back into northwestern Arkansas, 26; death, 31, 34; had approved of using Indians against Kansas, 31, _footnote_; commission from, found on John Matthews, 54, _footnote_; had diverted Pike’s supplies, 147-148
McCulloch, Henry E: in command of Northern Sub-district of Texas, 302; opinion of conditions in Indian Territory, 306, _footnote_
McCurtain, J: 312, _footnote_
McDaniel, James: 231, _footnote_
McDonald, Hugh: 173, _footnote_
McGee’s Residence: 47, _footnote_
McIntosh, Chilly: 25, 62, _footnote_, 152
McIntosh, D.N: colonel in command of First Creek Regiment, 25; arrives at Camp Stephens, 32; under orders to advance up Verdigris toward Santa Fe road, 152; conduct as commander, 285, _footnote_; commanded First and Second Creek at Honey Springs, 288
McIntosh, James: 29, _footnote_; death, 31, 34; defeated Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la in Battle of Chustenahlah, 79
McIntosh, Unee: 62, _footnote_
McIntosh, William: 255, _footnote_
Mackey’s Salt Works (Okla.): 325
McNeil, John: 297 and _footnote_, 305
Magazine Mountains: 266, _footnote_
Magruder, John Bankhead: to command Trans-Mississippi Department, 186; delay, 186, _footnote_; appointment, rescinded, 187; orders Bankhead to Steele’s assistance, 291-292; proposes consolidation of commands for recovery of Forts Smith and Gibson, 302; tries to deprive Steele of white force, 306, 311, _footnote_; wants Indian Territory attached to Texas, 306, _footnote_
Manypenny, George W: 221
Marmaduke, John S: 251, 327
Marston, B.W: 329, _footnote_
Marque and Reprisal Law: 21
Martial Law: 162 and _footnote_
Martin, George W: work cited, 59, _footnote_
Martin, H.W: entrusted with mission by Coffin, 122 and _footnote_, 133; opinion regarding refugees, 209, 217-218; arrangements for inter-tribal council, 273, _footnote_
Martin’s Regiment: 308, _footnote_
Marysville (Okla.): 112
Matthews, John: incensing Osages and Cherokees against U.S. government, 47, _footnote_; death, 53 and _footnote_; had commission from McCuIloch, 54, _footnote_
Maxey, Samuel B: assigned to command of Indian Territory, 311; project for sweeping reforms, 315 and _footnote_; delivers address at Armstrong Academy council, 320
and _footnote_; thinks Indians best adapted for irregular warfare, 326; cooeperates with Price willingly, 326-327; rulings, 329-330, _footnote_; sets up printing-press for propaganda work, 330; speaks in own defense, 334; superseded by Cooper, 334
Maysville (Ark.): 131, 197
Maremec River (Mo.): 27
Methodist Episcopal Church South: 236, _footnote_
Mexican War: 70; Roane’s conduct in, criticised by Pike, 149
Mexico: Lane in, 42, _footnote_; teams hauling cotton to, 266, _footnote_
Miamies: 77, _footnote_
Mico Hatki: 62, _footnote_, 64, _footnote_, 108, _footnote_, 234
Middle Boggy (Okla.): 152, 296
Miles, W. Porcher: 278, _footnote_
Mills, James K.: 113
Mississippi River: 14, _footnote_, 26, _footnote_, 34, 268, _footnote_
Missouri: 17, 173, _footnote_; decisive result of Battle of Pea Ridge, 13; expected Confederacy to force situation for her, 18; requisition upon, for troops, 25; relief planned by Van Dorn, 26, 34; Indians to cut off supplies from, 35; fight for, on border, 43-44; troops from Kansas called to, 48; Denver served in, 70; activity of secessionists, 110; Payton, senator from, 176, _footnote_; Hindman and others plan to reenter southwest, 194, 218; Delaware Reservation not far distant from, 206; Martin refuses to consider refugees living upon impoverished people of, 217-218; political squabbles in, 249, _footnote_; Watie succeeds in entering southwestern, 312; Boudinot suggests arrangements for, 317, _footnote_
Missouri Commandery: work cited, 148, _footnote_
Missouri River: 53
Missouri State Guard: 17, 158
Missouri State Guards: Eighth Division, 130, _footnote_
Missourians: customary fighting methods during period of border warfare, 17, 44; refugee, in Lane’s Kansas Brigade, 51; inroads resented by various tribes, 77, _footnote_; intent upon ignoring First Indian Expedition, 119, _footnote_; battalion of, at Locust Grove, 131
Mitchell, Robert B: appointment by Robinson, 46, _footnote_; raises volunteers to go against Indians, 46, _footnote_; needed by Halleck, 101 and _footnote_
Mix, Charles E: 52, _footnote_, 60, 208, _footnote_
“Moderates”: 304, _footnote_
Mograin, Charles: 207, _footnote_, 241, _footnote_
Moneka: 46, _footnote_
Montgomery, James: 15 and _footnote_, 45, 53, _footnote_
Moonlight, Thomas: 322
Moore, Charles: 206, _footnote_
Moore, Frank: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 83, 84, 135, 184, 257, 287
Moore, Thomas O: 192, _footnote_
Moravian Mission: 194
Morgan, A.S: 291, _footnote_, 293
Morton, Oliver P: 43 and _footnote_
Moty Kennard: _footnotes_ on pages 62, 65, 262, 278, 302, 320
Mundy Durant: 235, _footnote_
Munsees: 212
Muskogee (Okla.): 288
Murrow, J.S: 162, _footnote_
Napier’s _Peninsular War_: Pike’s study of, 163
Nebraska Territory: 227, 231
Neosho (Mo.): defeat of Federals at, 113; Ratliff despatched to, 127; Cherokee refugees removed from Drywood Creek to, 214, 217, 218; refugees at, 257, _footnote_, 273 and _footnote_
Neosho Agency: headquarters, 46, 50, 52; tribes included within, 48; in great confusion, 115-116; changes in location of, 116-117
Neosho Falls (Kans.): 213
Neosho Valley: suitable place for refugees, 86; refugees object to leaving, 88; Steele plans to replenish resources from, 286; Stand Watie makes daring cavalry raid into, 312
New Albany: 80, _footnote_
New England Relief Society: 87, _footnote_
New Mexico: 61, 113, 152, 238, _footnote_
Newton, Robert C: 266, _footnote_
Newton County (Mo.): 47, _footnote_
Newtonia (Mo.): battle of, 194-195 and _footnotes_
New York Indian Lands: 79; intruded upon by white squatters, 80, 85; refugees upon, 79, 85; controversy over, 85, _footnote_; Dole makes treaty concerning, 235-236
New York _Tribune_: 31, _footnote_, 126, _footnote_, 226
Nicolay, John G: 42, _footnote_
Nineteenth Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers: 150, _footnote_
Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry: 119, _footnote_; Frederick Salomon, colonel, 118; part attached to First Brigade of First Indian Expedition, 126
North, The: 42, _footnote_, 171, 245; indifference towards West, 43; reconstruction measures in favor of, 228; Indian Territory came too late into reckonings of, 250
North Fork of the Canadian (Okla.): 173, _footnote_
North Fork Village (Okla.): 173, _footnote_
Northern Sub-District of Texas: 286, 302
Ock-tah-har-sas Harjo: 228, _footnote_; elected principal chief by refugee Creeks, 89; addresses “Our Father,” 233
Office of Indian Affairs: prompt action needed, 47, _footnote_; approval sought, 52; appeal to War Department for restoration of military force in Indian Territory, 60; Carruth, special agent of, accompanies First Indian Expedition, 122 and _footnote_; agents ignored by military men of First Indian Expedition, 133 and _footnote_; profiteering among employees, 208; Wattles sent out by, 226; not yet prepared to treat with John Ross for retrocession of Neutral Lands, 231
Oh-Chen-Yah-Hoe-Lah: 69, _footnote_
Oke-Tah-hah-shah-haw Choe: talk, 66, _footnote_
Olathe (Kans.): 205
Old George: 203
Oldham, Williamson S: 157 and _footnote_, 176, _footnote_
Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la: 24, 63, _footnote_, 73, _footnote_, 76 and _footnote_, 79; defeated by McIntosh in Battle of Chustenahlah, 79; lodges complaint against Coffin, 87; friends oppose election of Ock-tah-har-sas Harjo as principal chief, 89; interviews Lane, 94; Coffin talks with, on subject of Indian Expedition, 102-103, _footnote_; wants “wagons that shoot,” 117; Creeks under, offered home by Osages, 207 and _footnote_, 229; Ellithorpe complains of, 219, _footnote_; death, 234
Osage County (Kans.): 80
Osage Nation: 47, _footnote_
Osage Reservation (Kans.): exposed condition of, 55; refugees cross, 79; intruders upon, 222 and _footnote_; owners unwilling to cede part of, 229-230
Osage River: 27
Osages: 252; bad white men interfering with, 46; disturbances
among, 46, _footnote_, 47, _footnote_; Mitchell schemes to negotiate treaty with, 47, _footnote_; offer assistance to U.S., 49; John Matthews, trader among, 53, _footnote_; loyalty asserted, 54, _footnote_; Coffin to cooeperate with Elder in negotiating with, 87-88, _footnote_; attempt to persuade enlistment for First Indian Expedition, 115, 207; approached for cession of lands, 116, 222; abandon Confederate cause, 121; Weer promotes enlistment of, 121; service rendered by, 207, _footnote_; offer home to Creeks, 207 and _footnote_, 229, 237-238; memorialize Congress, 229; disgusted with Coffin’s draft of treaty of cession, 229; Dole makes treaty with, 235, 239 and _footnote_; massacre of Confederate officers, 237-238, _footnote_; council of Great and Little, 237, _footnote_; unfair advantage taken by representatives of U.S. government, 238; terms of Dole’s treaty with, 239, _footnote_; makes propositions to Dole, 240-241, _footnote_; Dorn reported to have funds for, 264, _footnote_; Jim Ned’s band involved in serious difficulties with, 274, _footnote_; invited to inter-tribal council, 274-275, _footnote_
Osceola (Mo.): Lane burns, 55
Ottawas: included within Sac and Fox Agency, 212; receive refugees upon certain conditions, 212-213; extend further hospitality to refugees, 213, _footnote_
Pagy, A.T: 65, _footnote_
Park Hill (Okla.): Pike tarries at, 28; Drew’s regiment stationed near in, _footnote_; Greene sent with detachment to Tahlequah and, 136; Blunt’s expeditionary force reaches, 193; Phillips has camp at, 258
Parke County (Ind.): 80, _footnote_
Parks, R.C: 113, _footnote_
Parks, Thomas J: 248, _footnote_
Parsons, Luke F: 285
Partisan Rangers: authorized by Confederate government, 112; W.P. Lane’s company of Texas, 266, _footnote_
Paschal Fish: 205, _footnote_, 236, _footnote_
Pascofa: 62, _footnote_
Patton, James: 47, _footnote_
Pawnee Fork: 112
“Paw Paws”: 304, _footnote_
Payton, R.L.Y: 176, _footnote_
Pea-o-pop-i-cult: 65, _footnote_
Pearce, N. Bart: 16, 22, 156, 158
Pea Ridge (Ark.): 13, 29, 34, 36, 197
Pegg, Thomas: 256
Pelzer, Louis: work cited, 260, _footnote_
Peorias: 77, _footnote_
Perryville (Okla.): 112, 295-296
Pheasant Bluff (Okla.): 271, 327
Phelps, John S: 49, 199-200
Phil David: 68, _footnote_
Phillips, James A: 126, _footnote_
Phillips, William A: 126, 321; _footnote_; biographical sketch, 126, _footnote_; commissioned colonel of Third Indian, 132; forces engage with those of Stand Watie, 163-164; Indians under, fought well in Battle of Newtonia, 194, 195, _footnote_; reconnoissances, 218; orders buildings at Fort Davis destroyed, 220, _footnote_; given command of Indian Brigade by Blunt, 249; reports Indian Brigade in sad state, 251; large view of responsibilities to Indian Territory, 253; makes overtures to Indians, 254; expostulates against delay in attempting recovery of Indian Territory, 257; reasons for returning refugees, 258; moves over border, 258; communication with Fort Scott threatened, 272; continues in charge at Fort Gibson, 305; Indian Home
Guards under, only Federal troops left in Indian Territory, 312; undertakes extended expedition through Indian Territory, 322; gives own interpretation to Lincoln’s Amnesty Proclamation, 322-323; differences between Blunt and, 325; removed from command at Fort Gibson, 333; restored to command, 335
Phisterer, Frederick: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 30, 288
Piankeshaws: 77, _footnote_
Pickett Papers: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 171, 172, 175
Pike, Albert: 128; assigned to command of Department of Indian Territory, 20; report submitted to Davis, 21; report to be found in U.S. War Department, 21, _footnote_; makes headquarters at Cantonment Davis, 22; anxious to save Indian Territory for South, 22-23; ordered to join Van Dorn with Indians, 27; becomes ranking officer in field, 31; criticism in New York _Tribune_, 31, _footnote_; authorizes Indian fighting at Pea Ridge, 32; rejoins army at Cincinnati, 35; receives orders from Maury, 36; talk with Comanches, 65, _footnote_; negotiations with Upper Creeks, 66, _footnote_; negotiations with Seminoles, 68, _footnote_; intrenches himself at Fort McCulloch, 110; report on Indian military activity, 112; ordered to send more important of forces to Little Rock, 147; protests against orders of May 31 and June 17, 154-156; objects to appointment of Pearce, 156; reports grievances to Randolph, 156; Cherokees exasperated by stay at Fort McCulloch, 159; letter to Stand Watie, 159, _footnote_; John Ross complains of, 160; prepares resignation, 161; indites conciliatory letter to Hindman, 162-163; student of art of war, 163; publishes circular address to Southern Indians, 165; effect of circular, 166 and _footnote_; correspondence with Davis, 167-168; arrested by Cooper, 169; entered upon diplomatic career as agent of Confederate State Department, 171-172 and _footnote_; exceeded instructions in assuming financial obligations, 174, _footnote_; considers remuneration, 175, _footnote_; makes important recommendations to Davis, 179; applies to Holmes for leave of absence, 190; resignation, 191 and _footnote_; reenters Indian Territory, 198; rumors of conspiracy with unionists in Texas, 199; arrested, 200; sums up grievances in letter to Holmes, 201, Appendix; Kirby Smith attempts to reemploy for service among Indians of Plains, 201, 335; Steele takes umbrage at published statement, 286, _footnote_
“Pins”: 193, 268, _footnote_
Planter’s House: 74, _footnote_, 94, _footnote_
Pocahontas (Ark.): 25
Poison Spring (Ark.): battle of, 326-327
Pomeroy, Samuel C: 41, _footnote_; elected senator from Kansas, 42; John Brown’s opinion of, 42, _footnote_; endorses principle underlying Fremont’s emancipation proclamation, 56-57 instructed by anti-Coffin conspirators, 88, _footnote_; protests against appointment of Denver, 97; succeeds in preventing appointment of Denver, 98; responsibility for Blunt’s promotion, 107, _footnote_; advocates confiscation of Cherokee Neutral Lands, 224; recommends concentration of tribes of West in Indian Territory, 230, _footnote_; in company of Dole at Leroy, 239, _footnote_
Pontiac: 31, _footnote_
Portlock, E.E: 329, _footnote_
Poteau River (Okla.): 297, _footnote_
Pottawatomies: 234 and _footnote_, 274-275, _footnote_
Prairie Creek (Ark.): 216
Prairie d’Ane (Ark.): 326
Prairie Grove (Ark.): battle of, 218 and _footnote_, 249
Prairie Springs: 279
Price, Sterling: 16, 17, 26, 29, 52, 55, 56, 127, _footnote_, 185, 317, _footnote_; tries to induce Quantrill and his men to enter regular service, 205, _footnote_; Hindman’s opinion of, 270, _footnote_; commands in District of Arkansas, 299, _footnote_, 326
Prince, William E: 55, 58
Proctor, A.G: 214, 234, _footnote_
Provisional Congress: refuses to confirm nomination of Heth, 19; calls for information on McCulloch-Price controversy, 19; established precedents of good faith in Indian relations, 172; resolution authorizing Davis to send a commissioner to Indian nations, 172, _footnote_, 173, _footnote_; work of, 173-175 and _footnotes_; confers honour upon John Jumper, 174, _footnote_; considerations of committees regarding Indian superintendency, 175, 176
Pryor, Nathaniel: 145, _footnote_
Pryor Creek (Okla.): 142, 145
Quantrill, W.C: 45; guerrillas raid Black Bob Lands and Olathe, 205; raid upon Lawrence, 238, _footnote_, 239; work scorned and repudiated by McCulloch, 303, _footnote_; perpetrates Baxter Springs massacre, 304; movements, 304 and _footnote_; Maxey feels no repugnance for services of, 326
Quapaw Agency: 53, _footnote_
Quapaw Nation: 46, 50, _footnote_
Quapaws: 48, in First Indian Expedition, 115, _footnote_; driven into exile, 116 and _footnote_; become refugees or are drawn into ranks of Federal army, 204; some, not _bona fide_ refugees, 204, _footnote_; no longer in Second Regiment of Indian Home Guards, 252
Quapaw Strip (Kans.): 126
Quesenbury, William: 158, 248, _footnote_
Rabb’s Battery: 114, _footnote_
“Radicals”: 305, _footnote_
Rains, James S: 125; makes Tahlequah headquarters of Eighth Division Missouri State Guard, 130, _footnote_; to attempt to reenter southwest Missouri, 194; Cooper acts under orders from, 197; in disgrace, 198
Randolph, J.L: 267, _footnote_, 309, _footnote_
Randolph, George W: Pike makes complaint against Hindman, 156-158; sympathy for Pike, 168; desires to terminate Magruder’s delay, 186; suggests that Price serve as second in command under Magruder, 186, _footnote_; reassures Pike, 187, 189; instructions to Holmes, 189
Ratliff, Robert W: 121, _footnote_, 127
Rector, Elias: 175, 181, _footnote_
Rector, H.M: 185, _footnote_
“Red Legs”: 305, _footnote_
Red River: 20, 36, 248, 311, 315
Reserve Indians: 112; Pike negotiates successfully with, 173, _footnote_; volunteers authorized, 173-174, _footnote_; disorders among, 182; uprising against and murder of Leeper undertaken by, 182-183; Tonkawas almost exterminated by, 184; companies organized among, 266, _footnote_; fed by contract, 308, _footnote_
Reynolds, Thomas C: 287, _footnote_
Richardson, James D; work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 21, 172, 278, 322
Richardson, John M: 113
Riddle’s Station (Okla.): 276, _footnote_ 293, 295, _footnote_
Ritchie, John: applies to Dole for new instructions, 106; appraisement of, 106, _footnote_; dilatory in movements, 114, _footnote_; disagreement with Kile, 115, _footnote_; slow in putting in appearance at Humboldt, 115; commands Second Regiment Indian Home Guards, 115; conducts prisoners to Fort Leavenworth, 144; allows men to run amuck at Shirley’s Ford, 197; dismissal from service recommended, 197; Phillip’s ranking officer, 325
Roane, J.S: Arkansas left in care of, 128, 149; asks forces of Pike, 149; conduct in Mexican War criticised by Pike, 149, _footnote_; fights duel with Pike, 149, _footnote_; character, 199; arrests Pike, 200
Roberts, S.A: 308, _footnote_, 320, _footnote_
Robertson, W.S: 225 and _footnote_
Robinson, Charles: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 15, 70, 97, 98, 226; appointment of Mitchell, 46, _footnote_; opposed to Lane’s plans for revenge, 55; approves of principle underlying Fremont’s proclamation, 56-57; opposed to enlistment of Indians, 57; seeks aid of Prince, 58; responsible for Stanton’s contesting of Lane’s seat, 59, _footnote_; Lane has no intention of obliging, 71, _footnote_; commissions for First Indian Expedition pouring in, 123, _footnote_; calls for volunteers against guerrillas, 205, _footnote_; relations with Stevens, 226, _footnote_
Robinson, William: 62, _footnote_
Rocky Creek (Clear Creek): 184, _footnote_
Rolla (Mo.): 13, 26
Roman, Alfred: work cited, 14, _footnote_, 34, _footnote_
Roman Catholic Mission: 87, _footnote_, 121, 241, _footnote_
Rosengarten, Joseph George: work cited, 118, _footnote_
Ross, John: attitude of faction of, towards proposed Confederate military occupation of Indian Territory, 15; communicates with Pike on movements of Cherokee troops, 28, _footnote_; opposed to secession, 63, _footnote_; reported to have host ready to do service for U.S., 66, _footnote_; loyal to U.S., 74, _footnote_; communication from Weer, 134 and _footnote_, 135; reply to Weer, 135-136; submits documents justifying his own and tribal actions, 136; receives peremptory order from Cooper, 137; arrested by Greeno, 137; suspected of collusion with captor, 137-138, 192; addresses himself to Hindman against Pike, 160; on mission to Washington, 192 and _footnote_; formally deposed by convention called by secessionist Cherokees, 193; receives monetary assistance, 214 and _footnote_; makes personal appeal to Lincoln to enable refugees to be returned to homes, 215-216; and associates ready to negotiate for retrocession of Neutral Lands, 231; Gillpatrick medium of diplomatic intercourse between, and First Indian Expedition, 271
Ross, Mrs. W.P: work cited, 111, _footnote_
Ross, W.W: 234, _footnote_
Round Grove (Okla.): 126
Russell, O.F: 152-153
Sac and Fox Agency (Kans.): 54, _footnote_, 114, _footnote_; suggested removal of refugees to, 212; tribes included within, 212; Osages repair to, to confer with Dole, 238 and _footnote_
Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi: encounter refugees from Indian
Territory, 80; offer home to refugees, 86; reservation, 87; receive Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, 213; scheme of building houses for, 226 and _footnote_; Dole makes treaty with, 235; claim against Creek refugees, 235, _footnote_; some Sacs confer with Carruth, 274, _footnote_; invited to inter-tribal council, 274-275. _footnote_
St. Francis River: 20
St. Joe (St. Joseph): 74, _footnote_, 116, 230
St Louis _Republican_: 75, _footnote_
Salomon, Frederick: colonel of Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 118; in command at Fort Scott, 118; left in command at Baxter Springs by Weer, 121; in charge of First Brigade, First Indian Expedition, 125; instructions to, with respect to Indian policy of U.S. government, 134; deplorable equipment of troops, 138; arrests Weer, 139; gives reasons arrest, 140-142; retrograde movement of, 142, 143, 147, 203; establishes himself at Camp Quapaw, 146; ordered by Blunt to send troops to support of Indian Brigade, 192-193
Salt Plains: 152, 153
Sam Checote: 62, _footnote_
Santa Fe Trail: to intercept trains on, 129, _footnote_, 267, _footnote_; Creek regiment to advance toward, 152
Scales, J.A: 268, _footnote_, 277, _footnote_
Schaumburg, W.C: 305, _footnote_
Schoenmaker, John: 241, _footnote_
Schofield, John M: 106, _footnote_, 119, _footnote_, 196, 248, 249 and _footnote_, 260, 261, 293, 304 and _footnote_
Schurz, Carl: 41 and _footnote_, 42, _footnote_
Scott, S.S: acting commissioner of Indian affairs, 172, _footnote_; remarks of, 177, _footnote_; to investigate conditions in Indian Territory, 181; hurries to Leased District, 184; asks Governor Colbert to harbor fugitive Tonkawas, 184, _footnote_; sets out upon tour of inspection, 299; made full commissioner, 299, _footnote_; reports to Holmes concerning neglect of Indian Territory, 300; reports to Seddon prospects for three Indian brigades, 329
Scott, T.M: 316, _footnote_
Scott, W.H: 287, _footnote_
Scott, Winfield S: 48, 56, 69, _footnote_
Scott County (Ark.): 20
Scullyville (Okla.): 155, 325, and _footnote_
Second Brigade, First Indian Expedition: put under Judson, 125
Second Choctaw Regiment: 312, _footnote_
Second Indian Brigade: 327
Second Indian Expedition: Carruth and Martin act in anticipation of, 133, _footnote_; Blunt making plans for, 196 and _footnote_, 208, _footnote_; Blunt discovers that Indians stipulate care of families during absence, 215
Second Indiana Battery: 118, 125
Second Ohio Cavalry: 118, 119, _footnote_, 125-126
Second Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles: commanded by Stand Watie, 25; joins Pike at Cincinnati, 28; takes position to observe enemy, 32; guiltless of atrocities committed at Pea Ridge, 32; makes way to Camp Stephens, 35; detail sent with ammunition to main army, 35; scouting along northern line of Cherokee country, 112; desertions from, 145
Second Regiment Indian Home Guards: miscellaneous in composition, 114 and _footnote_; men not yet mustered in, 121; fills up after defeat of Confederates at Locust Grove, 132; Corwin takes
command of, 144; engagement at Shirley’s Ford, 197; component part of Phillips’s Indian Brigade, 249; Cherokee in composition, 252; fought dismounted at Honey Springs, 288; stationed at Mackey’s Salt Works, 325
Sedalia (Mo.): 13
Seddon, James A: 270, _footnote_, 299, _footnote_, 317, _footnote_; instructs Scott to attend meeting of council at Armstrong Academy, 320; Scott reports prospects of forming three Indian brigades, 329
Seminole Battalion: 152, 312, _footnote_
Seminole Nation: 130
Seminoles (Confederate): Murrow, agent, 162, _footnote_; Pike negotiates treaty with, 173, _footnote_; agree to furnish five companies of mounted volunteers, 173, _footnote_; Creeks and, want separate military department made of Indian Territory, 278-279; disperse, 323
Seminoles (Federal or Unionist): Carruth teacher among, 59; destitution of refugee, 83, _footnote_; in First Regiment Indian Home Guards, 114 and _footnote_; attempt tribal reoerganization, 228
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (Confederate): Johnson’s bill, 176; members, 176, _footnote_
Senecas: 48, 204 and _footnote_
Seneca-Shawnees: refugees, 116, 204; object to Wyandot treaty, 237, _footnote_
Shawnee Agency (Kans.): 236, _footnote_
Shawnee Reserve (Kans.): 205 and _footnote_
Shawnees: 48; loyal to U.S., 66, _footnote_; in First Indian Expedition, 113, _footnote_; from Cherokee country made refugees, 116; implicated in tragedy at Wichita Agency, 183; Neosho Agency Indians seek refuge among, 204; are depredated upon, 204, 205, _footnote_; Dole makes treaty with, 235
Shelby, Jo: 45, 194, 200
Sheridan, Philip H: work cited, 296, _footnote_
Sherman (Tex.): 190
Sherman, William T: 44
Shians (Cheyennes): 274, _footnote_
Shirley’s Ford (Mo.): 197
Shoal Creek (Mo.): 118, 120, _footnote_
Shoe-Nock-Me-Koe: 68, _footnote_
Shreveport (La.): 303, _footnote_
Sigel, Franz: 29
Simms, W.E: 176, _footnote_
Sixth Kansas Cavalry: 249
Slavery: 298, _footnote_
Smith, James M.C: 173, _footnote_
Smith, Caleb P: 60, _footnote_, 61, 99; authorizes expenditure of funds for relief of refugees, 83
Smith, John: 62, _footnote_
Smith, E. Kirby: 317; seeks to reemploy Pike for service among Indians, 201, 335 and _footnote_; assigned to command, 269; approves Steele’s adoption of Fabian policy, 297; reply to Stand Watie, 297-298, _footnote_; detaches command of Indian Territory from that of Arkansas, 303; subscribes to idea of forming two Indian brigades, 310; is stanchest of Steele’s friends, 311; opposed to three brigade plan and to promotion of Cooper implicit in it, 318; commends work of Steele, 318; address emended by Maxey, 330; friend of Maxey, 334; holds in abeyance orders for retirement of Maxey, 334, _footnote_; enters into convention with Canby, 335
Smith’s Mill: 28
Snead, Thomas L: work cited, 15, _footnote_, 296, _footnote_
Snow, George C: 80, _footnote_, 83, _footnote_
Soda Springs (Okla.): 291, _footnote_
South, The: indifference towards West, 43; love of home state, great bulwark of, 187-188; Choctaws reported as wavering in allegiance to, 220; Indian Territory as separate military entity comes too late into reckonings, 250
Southern Confederacy: decisive results of battle of Pea Ridge, 13; expected by Missouri to force situation for her, 18; relation of Indian Territory determined by treaties of alliance, 21; Pike’s great purpose to save Indian Territory for, 22-23; Weer suggests that Cherokee Nation dissolve its alliance with, 134; management of Indian affairs of, 149-150, 171; view of obligations towards Indians, 174, _footnote_; policy with respect to guerrillas, 205, _footnote_; Wyandots refuse to throw in lot with, 206; Kansas politicians want to punish Indians for going over to, 224; Cherokees repudiate alliance with, 232; Indians losing faith in, 273-274; charged with bad faith by Cherokees, 279-281; Indian devotion to, re-asserted, 317; Indians pledge anew loyalty to, 323
Southern Expedition: 73 and _footnote_
Southern Indian Regiments: 24-25
Southern Superintendency (Confederate): establishment delayed by prolongation of Pike’s mission, 175; bill for establishment of, 176
Southern Superintendency (Federal): 117, _footnote_
Southwest, The: 46, 70
Southwestern District of Missouri: 26-27
Southwestern Division of District of Missouri: 127
Spavinaw Creek (Okla.): 130, 138
Spavinaw Hills (Okla.): 127
Spears, John: 279
Speer, John: 43, _footnote_
Speight, J.W: brigade of, 246, _footnote_, 267, _footnote_
Springfield (Mo.): 26, 51
Spring, Leverett: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 15, 52, 97
Spring River: 119, 126; Shirley’s Ford on, 197
Staked Plains: 153
Stand Watie: 159, _footnote_; colonel of Second Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 25; men in poor trim and undisciplined, 28; men take position as corps of observation, 32; makes way to Camp Stephens, 35; scouting, 112, 127; engagements, 112, 113, 119 and _footnote_; encampment on Cowskin Prairie, 119; home of, 127; successful skirmishing commented upon, 152; elected Principal Chief, 193; Phillips compels, to re-cross Arkansas, 218; in command of First Cherokee Regiment, 262, _footnote_; Steele’s great reliance upon, 270; cavalry raids, 272, 312; forced to retire from Cabin Creek, 285; commanded First and Second Cherokee at Honey Springs, 288; complaints to Kirby Smith, 297, _footnote_; related to Boudinot, 300; makes reports and appeals, 301; proposed advancement, 309; authorizes formation of Cherokee Brigade, 309; Steele’s appraisement of, 310; skirmish at Barren Fork, 312; has command of First Indian Brigade, 327; all Cherokee military units summoned to camp on Limestone Prairie, 328; name becomes source of terror, 331; last great raid of, 332
Stanton, Edwin M: 75, _footnote_, 76; refuses to countenance use of Indians as soldiers, 76 and _footnote_; efficient administration of, 96; deprecates interference in military affairs in Kansas, 98 and _footnote_
Stanton, Frederick P: 59, 72, _footnote_
State Department (Confederate): 171, 172, _footnote_
State Rights: 18
Statutes at Large of Provisional Government: work cited, 174, _footnote_
Stearns, Frank Preston: work cited, in _footnotes_ on pages 42, 87
Steele, Frederick: in command of Department of Arkansas, 322; argues over military status of Fort Smith, 321-322
Steele, James: special agent, 100; infers Halleck unfavorable to Indian expedition, 101; presents credentials at arsenal at Fort Leavenworth, 101; Sac and Fox chiefs willing to abide by decision, 235, _footnote_
Steele, William: 247; to report to Holmes for duty, 245, _footnote_; preferred to Cooper, 246; sends most of troops in direction of Red River, 248; takes large view of responsibilities to Indian Territory, 253; difficulties and embarrassments, 261-269; appeal for loyalty to Confederate cause, 267-268, _footnote; ex officio_ superintendent of Indian affairs, 275-276; regards Indian Territory as buffer, 276; influences to undermine, 278; makes stand in Creek country, 291; opposition to, 310; command in bad condition, 292; crosses from Creek into Choctaw country, 295; journeys to Bonham to consult with McCulloch, 302-303; command detached from that of Arkansas, 303; size of force, 305, _footnote_; work discredited and disparaged by Cooper, 306; policy and practice in matter of feeding indigents and refugees, 307 and _footnote_; relieved of command of Indian Territory, 311; Kirby Smith commends work, 318
Stettaner Bros: 211, _footnote_
Stevens, Robert S: 211, _footnote_, 212, 226 and _footnote_
Stevens, Thaddeus: 57, 60, _footnote_
Stidham, George W: 62, _footnote_, 173, _footnote_
Stockton’s Hall: 58 and _footnote_
Sturgis, S.D: Lane ordered to cooeperate with, 56; placed in command of District of Kansas, 98; policy with respect to First Indian Expedition, 103-104; opposed to idea of Indian expedition, 104; military despotism, 104; forbids enlistment of Indians, 105; refusal to reinstate Weer, 117, _footnote_
Sugar Creek (Ark.): 30, _footnote_
Sumner, E.V: 260, _footnote_
Susquehanna River: 232
Tahlequah (Okla.): 132, 136; Rains makes headquarters, 130, _footnote_; Hindman places white cavalry at, 192; Blunt’s expeditionary force seizes archives and treasury of Cherokee Nation, 193; Hindman appears in, 193; steamer, 263, _footnote_
Talliaferro (Taliaferro?), T.D: 267, _footnote_
Tandy Walker: supporter of Cooper, 265; recruits among Choctaws, 265; appointment, 265, _footnote_; asks for establishment of Indian Territory as separate military department, 279; commanded Regiment of Choctaws and Chickasaws at Honey Springs, 288; indulging in petty graft, 306, _footnote_; service of Choctaws under, in Camden campaign, 326; has command of Second Indian Brigade, 327
Tawa Kuwus: 274, _footnote_
Taylor, N.G: 207, _footnote_
Taylor, R: 297, _footnote_
Taylor, Samuel M: 279
Tecumseh: 73, _footnote_
Te-Nah: 65, _footnote_
Tenth Kansas Infantry: 117, 118
Texans: assist Indians at Leetown
engagement, 31; away fighting “the cold weather people,” 65, _footnote_; circulate malicious stories about Pike, 160, _footnote_; disposition towards self-sacrifice, 268; not possible to deal with Indians arbitrarily, 326
Texas: 179; requisition upon, for troops, 25; Pike to call for troops from, 36; way to, likely to be blocked by Southern Indians, 61; Pike wants to be near, 151; anti-Pike reports spreading through, 169; road from Missouri to, 173, _footnote_; Oldham, senator from, 176, _footnote_; rumors current that Pike is conspiring with unionists, in, 199; detached from Trans-Mississippi Department, 245-246; cotton speculation alluring men with ready money, 248, _footnote_; public feeling towards deserters, 266, _footnote_; great commissary depot west of Mississippi, 268, _footnote_; Bankhead becomes alarmed for safety of, 287, 292; virtual chaos in, 303; Steele contracts for clothing in northern, 308
Thayer, John M: 324 and _footnote_
Thayer, William Roscoe: work cited in _footnotes_ on pages 41, 45, 96
Third Choctaw Regiment: 321
Thomas, L: 74-75, _footnote_, 100, 109, _footnote_
Throckmorton, James W: 335, _footnote_
Thurston’s House: 54, _footnote_
Timiny Barnet: 62, _footnote_
Tishomingo (Okla.): 200
Toe-Lad-Ke: talk, 67, _footnote_; signature, 69, _footnote_
Tonkawas: negotiations with Pike, 182; about one-half of, butchered, 184; surviving, flee to Fort Arbuckle, 184 and _footnote_
Toombs, Robert: 171, _footnote_, 173, _footnote_
Totten, James: 197
Trans-Mississippi Department: 128, _footnote_, 149, 168, 186, 187, 192, 245-246, 269, 270 and _footnote_, 315, 318-319
Trans-Mississippi District of Department no. 2: 14, 19, 20, 25, 127, _footnote_, 128, _footnote_, 190, 191
Treaties of Alliance: 21, 23 and _footnote_, 173 and _footnote_
Trench, E.B: 215, _footnote_
Turner, E.P: 292, _footnote_
Turner, John W: 83 and _footnote_
Tus-te-nu-ke-ema-ela: 108, _footnote_
Tus-te-nuk-ke: 108, _footnote_
Upper Creeks: 62, _footnote_
Usher, John P: 231, 239, _footnote_
Van Buren (Ark.): 162, _footnote_, 177
Van Dorn, Earl: 14, _footnote_, 20, 25, 26, 34, 35, 36; appointment, 19; failure to credit Indians in report, 31 and _footnote_, 148; orders Indians to harass enemy on border of own country, 35-36, 110; telegraphic request to Davis, 127, _footnote_, 186; diverts and appropriates Pike’s supplies, 147-148 and _footnote_; hopes Price will be successor, 185
Vann’s Ford: 144
Vaughan, Champion: 305, _footnote_
Vaughn, Richard C: 218, _footnote_
Verdigris River: 76, 79, 80, 85, 142, 144, 145, 210-211, _footnote_, 273, _footnote_; tributary of Arkansas, 22
Verdigris Valley: 79, 85
Vernon County (Mo.): 304, _footnote_
Vicksburg (Miss.): 188, _footnote_, 259, 260, 283, 301, _footnote_
Villard, Henry: work cited, 45, _footnote_
Villard, Oswald Garrison: work cited, 226, _footnote_
Vore, Israel G: 302 and _footnote_
Wakoes (Wacoes): 66, _footnote_; sent out as runners, 274, _footnote_
Walker, L.P: 172, _footnote_
Walnut Creek (Kans.): 79, 85, 152, 205, _footnote_
Walnut Grove: 35
Walworth, E: 329, _footnote_
War Department (Confederate): 127, 172 and _footnote_, 186, 318
War Department (Federal): 60 and _footnote_, 73, _footnote_, 76, 99, 100
Warren (Tex.): 190
Warrensburg (Mo.): 58
Washington (George): 65, _footnote_
Washington Territory: 232
Wattles, Augustus: 46, _footnote_, 54, _footnote_, 57, 225-228
Wattles, Stephen H: 131, _footnote_, 333 and _footnote_
Weas: 77, _footnote_
Webber’s Falls (Okla.): 216, 255, 260, 271, 276, 287, _footnote_
Weed, Thurlow: work cited, 60, _footnote_
Weer, William: 117 and _footnote_, 119, 120, 121, 130, 133; ideas on Indian relations with U.S. government, 133, _footnote_; communication with Ross, 134; proposes Cherokee Nation abolish slavery by vote, 134, _footnote_; sends out two detachments to reconnoitre, 136; joins Campbell at Fort Gibson, 136-137; faults and failures, 139, 140-142; arrested by Salomon, 139; Ritchie’s men run amuck and attack their comrades in brigade of, 197
Welch, O.G: 29
Wells, J.W: 267, _footnote_
West, The: indifference towards, 43; character of war in, 44; character of leaders, 45; criticism of Confederate management of Indian affairs in, 149-150; establishment of Indian superintendency left unsettled by Provisional Government, 174-175; Price submits plan of operations for, 186, _footnote_; circumstances and conditions concerning migrations of eastern tribes, 227; project for concentrating tribes in Indian Territory, 230, _footnote_; keep too many men needlessly in, 259; desertions, 292 and _footnote_
Western Military District: 43, 47, _footnote_
West’s Battery: 267, _footnote_
Whistler, W: 69, _footnote_
White, George E: 157, _footnote_
White Auxiliary (Confederate): urged by Pike, 24 and _footnote_; ordered to Little Rock, 129, 147; Kirby Smith thinks possible to separate from Indian troops, 310
White Auxiliary (Federal): Dole’s recommendation regarding, 99; Stanton’s instructions regarding, 100; not heard from, 102; orders for, 109 and _footnote_; Indians ask for evidence of existence, 118; composition, 118; comparison with Indians, 123 and _footnote_; brigaded with Indian Home Guards, 125; retrograde movement, 143, 203; Blunt orders Salomon to send to support of Indian Brigade, 192-193, 203
White Chief: 68, _footnote_
White Cloud: 77, _footnote_
White Hair: 207, _footnote_, 238, _footnote_; principal chief of Osages, 240, _footnote_
Whitney, H.C: 50, _footnote_, 52, _footnote_, 54, _footnote_
Wichita Agency: 64, _footnote_; tragedy, 183-184; Belmont, temporary, 274, _footnote_
Wichita Mountains: 153
Wigfall, Louis T: 264, _footnote_, 277, _footnote_
Wilder, A. Carter: 230, _footnote_, 322, _footnote_
Wilder, D.W: 58, _footnote_, 305, _footnote_
Willamette River: 232
Williams, James M: 284, 285
Williams, the: 327
Williamson, George: 327
Wilson, Hill P: work cited, 226, _footnote_
Wilson’s Creek (Mo.): battle of, 34, _footnote_, 49
Wolcott, Edward: 83, _footnote_
Wolf Creek (Ark.): 135, 136, 145, 164
Wood, W.D: 218, _footnote_
Woodburn, James Albert: work cited, 57, _footnote_, 60, _footnote_
Woodruff’s Battery: 147, 150, 154
Wright, Marcus J: work cited, 19, _footnote_, 187, _footnote_
Wyandot City (Kans.): 204, _footnote_
Wyandots: robbed by secessionist Indians, 206 and _footnote_; escape into Kansas, 206; want to render military service, 206, _footnote_; Dole’s abortive treaty with, 236-237, _footnote_