Archive for the ‘The Indians’ Category

General Hall relieves General Fremont
Preparing for aggressive operations under General Curtis
Bickerings between Generals Lane and Hunter
Reorganization of Kansas troops
Concentration of troops at Fort Scott
Army of the Southwest under Curtis attacks Price at Springfield
Drives Southern forces out of the State
Both sides prepare for decisive battle

Hopoeithleyohola’s followers lost everything in the last battle
Their terrible sufferings on retreat to Kansas
Cared for by the Government in Southern Kansas

Southern forces attack Hopoeithleyohola; He is finally defeated and retires to Kansas

Preparing for the struggle; Blunders and indecision in Missouri of Union commanders; Their effects on the Indians

Union cause suffers in Missouri; Reflected among the Indians; Organization of Indian forces for Confederate service; Surrender of Little Rock Arsenal; Hopoeithleyohola communicates with U. S. Commissioner.

Albert Pike to assist in organizing Indian forces; His influence among the Indians; Southern emissaries to Indian chiefs; Chief John Ross refuses to join the South; Defeats of Union armies bring him over to the Southern cause; General mass meeting.

Choctaw Council declares in favor of the South; Organization of the Confederate Government; Commences seizing arsenals and arms in Southern States; Evacuation of Fort Smith and forts in Indian Territory; Governors of Missouri and Arkansas refuse to furnish quota of troops; General Ben McCulloch assigned to command of Southern forces in Indian Territory.

After the announcement of the election of Mr. Lincoln was confirmed, the people, the followers of the ultra Democratic faction, became wild with excitement, and the talk of war, war to the knife and knife to the hilt, was persistent in every little group of men that assembled together on the streets or in the public offices.

The Indian Territory occupied an extremely important position in the great war; it was the extreme right flank of the Federal operations from the Potomac to the western boundary of the Indian country, and the turning of that flank by the Confederates would have been a severe blow to Southern Kansas; the Union Indian Brigade was an important factor in holding it intact.