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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Bethel fight. (search)
m the Indian Nations. --The Galveston (Texas) News, of June 25th, says: Mr. J. A. Echols, Secretary of the Commissioners sent by the Convention to the Indian Nation, returned recently. He informs us that the Chickasaw Legislature passed an act of secession by a unanimous vote, about the 1st inst. A Convention was to be held by the Choctaws about the 14th inst. for the same purpose, and there is no doubt that nation had also seceded. The Creek nation had a Convention about the 12th May, but they sat with closed doors, and their action is not therefore certainly known, but as delegates to the Southern Confederacy were immediately sent, no doubt is entertained that an act of secession was passed. Gen. Douglass H. Cooper, agent of the United States, for the Chickasaws and Choctaws, resigned some time since, has been adopted as a citizen, and is appointed Commander-in-chief of all their forces. Gen. Cooper is a Mississippian, and a relative of President Davis. Mr.