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 reënter 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 Frémont'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 Fé 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 reörganization, 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 reëmploy 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