and footnote; thinks Indians best adapted for irregular warfare, 326; coöperates 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326-327; rulings, 329-330, footnote; sets up printing-press for propaganda work, 330; speaks in own defense, 334; superseded by Cooper, 334
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 reënter 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 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
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 coöperate 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
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; reënters 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 reëmploy for service among Indians of Plains, 201, 335; Steele takes umbrage at published statement, 286, 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 Frémont'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