Badeau, Adam: work cited, 96, footnote
Baldwin, A.H: 235, footnote
Bankhead, S.P: given command of Northern Sub-District of Texas, 286; Steele applies for assistance, 290; fails to appear, 291; dissatisfaction with, 306, footnote
Barren Fork (Okla.): skirmish on, 312
Bartles, W.L: 237, footnote
Bass's Texas Cavalry: 276, footnote, 303, footnote, 306, footnote
Bassett, Owen A: 123, footnote
Bates County (Mo.): 58, 304, footnote
Baxter Springs (Kans.): location, 121, 125, footnote; Weer leaves Salomon and Doubleday at, 121; Indian encampment at, 125, 129; negro regiment sent to, 259, 284; commissary train expected, 291; massacre at, 304
Bayou Bernard: 163-164
Beauregard, Pierre G.T: devises plans for bringing Van Dorn east, 14, footnote, 34; Hindman takes command under order of, 127, 186, footnote, 190
Belmont (Kansas.): 274, footnote
Benge, Pickens: 132
Benjamin, Judah P: 22, 23, footnote, 24, footnote, 175, footnote
Bennett, Joseph: 269, footnote
Big Bend of Arkansas: 73, footnote, 274, footnote
Big Blue Reserve: 235, footnote
Big Hill Camp: 237, footnote
Big Mountain: 148, footnote
Billy Bowlegs: 68, footnote, 108, footnote, 228, footnote
Biographical Congressional Directory: work cited, 59, footnote, 70, footnote
Bishop, Albert Webb: work cited, 219, footnote
Black Beaver Road: 67, footnote
Black Bob: 235, footnote, 236, footnote
Black Bob's Band: 204; to be distinguished from Absentee Shawnees, 204-205, footnote; lands raided by guerrillas, 205
Black Dog: 263, footnote
Blair, Francis P: 49
Blair, W.B: 290, footnote
Bleecker, Anthony: 41, footnote
Blue River (Okla.): 110
Blunt, James G: learns of designs of Drew's Cherokees, 33; avenges burning of Humboldt, 53; succeeds Denver at Fort Scott, 98; in command of reëstablished Department of Kansas, 106; reverses policy of Halleck and Sturgis, 106-107 and footnote; promotion objected to, 107, footnote; ideas on necessary equipment of Indian soldiers, 109; Weer reports on subject of Cherokee relations, 136; forbids Weer to make incursion into adjoining states, 139; orders white troops to support Indian Brigade, 192-193; in charge of Army of Frontier, 196; plans Second Indian Expedition, 196 and footnotes; promises to return refugees to homes, 196, footnote, 203; opinion touching profiteering, 208, 210-211; issue between, and Coffin, 210-211 and footnote; promises return home to refugee Cherokees, 213; vigorous policy, 218; achievements discounted by Schofield, 248, 249; accusation of brutal murders and atrocities, 248, footnote; makes headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, 249; wishes Phillips to advance, 254, 257; advancement of Schofield obnoxious to, 260; undertakes to go to Fort Gibson, 261, 286; in command of District of Frontier, 286; victorious at Honey Springs, 288-289; decides to assume offensive, 293; no faith in Indian soldiery, 294; transfers effects from Fort Scott to Fort Smith, 304; relieved by McNeil, 305; summoned to Washington for conference, 322 and footnote; restored to command, 324; controversy with Thayer, 324
Bob Deer: 68, footnote
Boggs, W.R: 286, footnote
Boggy Depot (Okla.): 162, 284, 295, footnote, 296 and footnote
Bogy, Lewis V: 235, footnote
Bonham (Texas): 302-303
Boston Mountains: McCulloch and Price retreating towards, 26, footnote; to push Confederate line northward of, 192
Boudinot, Elias C: Cherokee delegate in Confederate Congress, 180; submits proposals to Cherokees, 279; active in Congress, 299, footnote; coadjutor of Cooper and relative of Stand Watie, 300; Steele forwards letter from, 307, footnote; Steele believes, responsible for opposition, 311; urges plan of brigading upon Davis, 317; suggests attaching Indian Territory to Missouri, 317, footnote, 318, 321, footnote; reports to Davis, 321
Bourland, James: 312, footnote
Bowman, Charles S: 108
Branch, H.B: 48, footnote, 51, footnote, 74, footnote, 116; charges against, 234, footnote
Breck, S: 324, footnote
Britton, Wiley: work cited in footnotes on pages 20, 22, 30, 35, 50, 51, 52, 55, 113, 118, 126, 131, 132, 146, 194, 196, 197, 198, 216, 218, 237, 249, 250, 257, 260, 271, 273
Brooken Creek (Okla.): 295, footnote
Brooks, William: 46, footnote, 47, footnote
Brown, E.B: 119, footnote, 127
Brown, John: 42, footnote
Browne, William M: 172, footnote
Bryan, G.M: 292, footnote
Buchanan, James: 41, 70, footnote
Buffalo Hump: 65, footnote
Burbank, Robert: 77, footnote
Bureau of Indian Affairs: created in Confederate War Dept, 172 and footnote
Burlington (Kans.): 80
Burns, Robert: 26
Bushwhackers: 125, 236, footnote, 239, footnote, 260, 266, footnote
Buster, M.W: 194, footnote
Cabell, A.S: 270, footnote
Cabell, W.L: 277, footnote, 284 and footnote, 287, 289, 292, 297
Cabin Creek (Okla.): 131, 283-286 and footnote, 332
Caddoes: reported loyal to U.S., 66, footnote; in First Indian Expedition, 115, footnote; encamped at Big Bend, 274, footnote
Calhoun, James S: 260, footnote
Camden Campaign (Ark.): 326-327
Cameron, Simon: 56, 60, footnote, 72
Camp Bowen: 219, footnote
Camp Imochiah: 288, footnote
Camp Quapaw: 146
Camp Radziwintski (Radziminski?): 153
Camp Ross, 255
Campbell, A.B: 81
Campbell, W.T: sent to reconnoitre, 136; halts at Fort Gibson, 136
Canadian River: 129, 162, 164, 293, 327
Canby, E.R.S: 335
Cane Hill (Ark.): 28, footnote, 218
Cantonment Davis (Okla.): established as Pike's headquarters, 22; Indians gather at, 27; Cooper at, 169; Cooper's force flee to, 198
Carey's Ferry (Okla.): 192
Carey's Ford (Okla.): 126
Carney, Thomas: 211, footnote; named as suitable commissioner, 233, footnote
Carr, Eugene A: 30, footnote
Carriage Point: 111, footnote
Carrington, W.T: 296, footnote
Carruth, E.H: teacher among Indians, 59, 64, footnote; furthers plan for inter-tribal council, 69; suspected of stirring up Indian refugees against Coffin, 87-88 and footnote; refugee Creeks want as agent, 89; satisfied with appointment to Wichita Agency, 89; sent on mission, 122 and footnote, 133; in Cherokee Nation, 195, footnote; disapproves of attempting return of refugees, 209; Martin and, arrange for inter-tribal council, 273-275, footnote
Carter, J.C: 208, footnote
Cass County (Mo.): 304, footnote
Cassville (Mo.): 293
Century Company's War Book: work cited, 13, footnote
Central Superintendent: 116-117
Chapman, J.B: 222 and footnote, 229, footnote
Chap-Pia-Ke: 69, footnote
Charles Johnnycake: 64, footnote
Chatterton, Charles W: 214, footnote
Cherokee Brigade: 309
Cherokee Delegate: 111, footnote, 180
Cherokee Expedition: 73, footnote
Cherokee Nation: 47, footnote, 74, footnote, 111, footnote; Clarkson to take command of all forces within, 130; future attitude under consideration, 133; Weer suggests resumption of allegiance to U.S., 134; Weer proposes abolition of slavery by vote, 134, footnote; intention to remain true to Confederacy, 135; cattle plentiful, 145; Hindman designs to stop operations of wandering mercantile companies, 156; maintenance of order necessary, 192; archives and treasury seized, 193; Carruth and Martin in, 195, footnote; Delaware District of, 197; deplorable condition of country, 217; Boudinot, delegate in Congress from, 299, footnote; Quantrill and his band pass into, 304
Cherokee National Council: ratifies treaty with Confederacy, 28, footnote; opposed to atrocities, 32-33; resolutions against atrocities, 33; assemblies, 255-256, legislative work, 256-257; Federal victory at
Webber's Falls prevents convening, 271 and footnote; passage of bill relative to feeding destitute Indians, 277, footnote; adopts resolutions commendatory of Blunt's work, 305, footnote; Stand Watie proposes enactment of conscription law, 329
Cherokee Neutral Lands (Kans.): 47, footnote, 53, 121, 125, footnote; refugee Cherokees collect on, 213; refugees refuse to vacate, 214; Pomeroy advocates confiscation of, 224; John Ross and associates ready to consider retrocession of, 231-232 and footnote
Cherokee Strip (Kans.): 79
Cherokee Treaty with Confederacy: ratified by National Council, 28, footnote; Indians stipulated to fight in own fashion, 32
Cherokees: unwilling to have Indian Territory occupied by Confederate troops, 15; civil war impending, 29; disturbances stirred up by bad white men, 47, footnote, 48; effect of Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek, 49; attitude towards secession, 63, footnote; in First Indian Expedition, 115, footnote; driven from country, 116; flee across Arkansas River, 135; exasperated by Pike's retirement to confines of Indian Territory, 159; outlawed, participate in Wichita Agency tragedy, 183; demoralizing effect of Ross's departure, 193; secessionist, call convention, 193; should be protected against plundering, 195, footnote; refugee, on Drywood Creek, 209, footnote, 213; repudiate alliance with Confederacy, 232; approached by Steele through medium of necessities, 276; charge Confederacy with bad faith, 279-281; asked to give military land grants to white men in return for protection, 279-281; Blunt thinks superior to Kansas tribes, 294; intent upon recovery of Fort Gibson, 311; troops pass resolution of reënlistment for war, 328-329
Chicago Tribune: 75, footnote
Chickasaw Battalion: 152, 155; Tonkawas to furnish guides for, 184, footnote
Chickasaw Home Guards: 184, footnote
Chickasaw Legislature: 306, footnote, 329, footnote
Chickasaw Nation: Pike arrested at Tishomingo, 200; funds drawn upon for support of John Ross and others, 215, footnote; Phillips communicates with governor, 323, footnote
Chickasaws: discord within ranks, 29; attitude towards secession, 63, footnote; delegation of, and Creeks, and Kininola, 65, footnote; plundered by Osages and Comanches, 207, footnote; refugee, given temporary home, 213; dissatisfied with Cooper, 265, footnote; disperse, 323
Chiekies: 66, footnote
Chillicothe Band of Shawnees: 236, footnote
Chilton, W.P: 173, footnote
Chipman, N.P: 207, footnote
Chippewas: 212
Choctaw and Chickasaw Battalion: 25, 32
Choctaw Council: considers Blunt's proposals, 302; disposition towards neutrality, 306, footnote; Phillips sends communication to, 323, footnote
Choctaw Militia: 311-312, 312, footnote
Choctaw Nation: Pike withdraws into, 110; Robert M. Jones, delegate from, in Congress, 299, footnote; proposed conscription within, 328
Choctaws: discord bred by unscrupulous merchants, 29; attitude