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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XIII (search)
e main column was to move southward to strike the Indians along the Washita, or still farther south on branches of the Red River. It was no small nor easy task to outfit all these troops by the time cold weather set in, and provide for them during the winter, but by the 1st of November I had enough supplies accumulated at Forts Dodge and Lyon for my own and Carr's columns, and in addition directed subsistence and forage for three months to be sent to Fort Gibson for final delivery at Fort Arbuckle, as I expected to feed the command from this place when we arrived in the neighborhood of old Fort Cobb, but through some mismanagement few of these stores got further than Gibson before winter came on. November I, all being ready, Colonel Crawford was furnished with competent guides, and, after sending two troops to Fort Dodge to act as my escort, with the rest of his regiment he started from Topeka November 5, under orders to march straight for the rendezvous at the junction of Bea
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XIV (search)
along in our march, till finally they were decently interred at Fort Arbuckle. At an early hour on December 12 the command pulled out froto grow scarce, I had all except a few of the strongest sent to Fort Arbuckle, near which place we had been able, fortunately, to purchase sor hundred miles off, and the road abominable, particularly east of Arbuckle, where it ran through a low region called boggy bottom. All along the men. Still, it would not do to withdraw, so I made a trip to Arbuckle chiefly for the purpose of reorganizing the transportation, but alut a formidable expedition against the Cheyennes, so I set out for Arbuckle accompanied by my quartermaster, Colonel A. J. McGonigle. Californ we had to make most of the way on foot, so by the time we reached Arbuckle I was glad to abandon the new road project. Finding near ArbucArbuckle more fields of corn than those already purchased, I had them bought also, and ordered more of the horses back there to be fed. I next dete
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
e so distant and isolated, and the traveling so difficult at that season of the year, that it was several weeks before the order reached them. One of these is Fort Arbuckle, in Franklin County, situated west Fort Arbuckle. from Arkansas, on the False Wachita River. It protects the northern frontiers of the State from the forayFort Arbuckle. from Arkansas, on the False Wachita River. It protects the northern frontiers of the State from the forays of the wild Comanches. At the time we are considering, it was garrisoned by detachments from the First Cavalry and one company of the First Infantry Regiment. Another was Fort Fort Wachita. Wachita, sixty miles southeasterly from Fort Arbuckle, and, like it, on the Indian Reserve. It was garrisoned by two companies of tFort Arbuckle, and, like it, on the Indian Reserve. It was garrisoned by two companies of the First Cavalry Regiment. Near this post, in the autumn of 1858, Major Earle Van Dorn, a gallant officer of the National Army, who appears for the first time, in Fort Lancaster. connection with Twiggs's treason, as an enemy of his country, had a successful battle with a band of warlike Comanches. Another important post was Fo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 19: events in the Mississippi Valley.--the Indians. (search)
, but to cultivate peace and friendship with the inhabitants of all the States. He earnestly urged them to observe a strict neutrality, and to maintain a trust that God would not only keep from their borders the desolation of war, but stay its ravages among the brotherhood of States. But Ross and his loyal adherents among the Cherokees and Creeks were overborne by the tide of rebellion, and were swept on, powerless, by its tremendous current. The forts on the frontier of Texas (Gibson, Arbuckle, and Washita), used for their defense, had, as we have observed, been abandoned by United States troops, in consequence of the treason of Twiggs, and the Indians were threatened by an invasion from that State. Fort Smith, on the boundary-line, between Arkansas and the Indian Territory, The boundary-line runs through the fort. It is at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, and near it is the city of Fort Smith, at which an immense trade with the Indians and New Mexicans was
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 2: (search)
the river comes out from the bluff of the Llano Estacado, ascended it to the spring which forms its source. From this they returned down the left bank of the river to the Witchita Mountains, which were examined, and thence they proceeded to Fort Arbuckle, on the Washita River, in the Indian Territory, arriving there July 28. Here the expedition terminated. Captain Marcy brought back his command without the loss of a man. In his Report he says, I feel a sincere regret at parting with the ction in whatever was necessary for the successful accomplishment of the design of the expedition, I take this opportunity of tendering my warmest acknowledgments. The party were: received with peculiar warmth of welcome by the, garrison at Fort Arbuckle; for they were supposed to have been, all massacred by the Comanche Indians. The account was brought by a Keechi Indian, and was so circumstantial and minute in every particular, and showed so perfect a knowledge of the movements of the expe
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
ver into the Mesilla valley. He took a large number of prisoners and paroled them, and held possession of that part of New Mexico for a short time. He found the people opposed to the Confederates generally. His companies were merged into and became a part of Geo. W. Baylor's regiment in the Arizona campaign. Col. Wm. C. Young, under the appointment of Governor Clark, raised a cavalry regiment for the protection of our northern frontier on Red river. He crossed the river and captured Forts Arbuckle, Washita and Cobb, when the Federal forces under Maj. Wm. H. Emery retired into Kansas. This regiment was early next year (1862), with other Texas commands, in the battle of Elkhorn, Mo. The Confederate Congress adjourned the latter part of May, 1861, to meet at Richmond, Va., on the 20th of July, and Texas, by the month of June, had removed from its borders the Federal troops, taken possession of the military property, and garrisoned the frontier posts. Thus the people and the Stat
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
acent, 1865 78, 2 Appomattox River, Va. 16, 1; 17, 1; 56, 1; 65, 1; 74, 1; 76, 5; 77, 3; 78, 4; 92, 1; 93, 1; 100, 1; 118, 3; 135, 5; 137, F6, 137, F7 Pontoon bridge 124, 7 Appomattox Station, Va. 16, 1; 74, 1; 78, 2; 100, 1; 117, 1; 135, 5; 137, F6, 137, G4 Aquia Creek, Va. 8, 1; 22, 5; 43, 7; 100, 1; 135-A; 137, B7; 171 Aquia Landing, Va. 22, 5; 100, 1; 137, C7 Aransas Bay, Tex. 43, 8; 65, 10 Aransas Pass, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1; 65, 10; 171 Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory 54, 1; 135-A; 159, C1; 171 Arcadia, Mo. 47, 1; 117, 1; 152, H9; 153, A7 Arizona Territory 98, 1; 167-171 Arkadelphia, Ark. 47, 1; 135-A; 154, E1; 159, E13; 171 Arkansas: Bentonville to Cassville, Mo., 1862 10, 4 Dardanelle, Jan. 14, 1865 98, 3 Fourche Bayou, Sept. 10, 1863 25, 3 Keetsville, Mo., to Fayetteville 10, 2 Little Rock, Aug., 1863 32, 6 Pea Ridge or Elkhorn Tavern, March 6-8, 1862 10, 3, 10, 5, 1
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Peaceful" invasion. (search)
More Fort Seizures. Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 6. --It is stated that Texas has threatened to take possession of Washita, Cobb, and Arbuckle, in the Indian Territory. The Overland mail conductor reports that the Arsenal was taken possession of Saturday night, by the State troops of Arkansas.
The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Why the troops were hurried up. (search)
ta by the notorious Montgomery, of Kansas abolition fame, it may be as well to state that three weeks ago, I learned in Galveston, on undoubted authority from St. Louis, via New Orleans, and published it in the Galveston News, that Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of War had, about a week before, sent a dispatch to Major Montgomery, U. S. A., at St. Louis, to instruct Major Emory (who has something to do with the overland mail route) to concentrate all the force he could at Forts Ouachita, Cobb, and Arbuckle, which posts are just outside of the Northern frontier of Texas, and parallel with it. Major Emory was to use his own discretion as to when and how to carry out the order. This news has doubtless ene this reached the Texas frontier. Major Montgomery, you will remember, was taken prisoner the other day by the Arkansas State troops, at or near Fort Smith, on the western frontier of that State, and the point of departure of the overland stages. Fort Ouachita is on the Camanche
The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Alleged Confederate agent. (search)
test from Northern Texas. --Mr. Geo. W. Wright, direct from Paris, Texas, which place he left on Monday, 6th inst., states that the night previous to his leaving an express arrived from Col. Wm. C. Young asking for assistance in besieging Fort Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. Col. Young had already taken Fort Washita, but found no arms. He had with him 500 Texans, and 1000 Choctaw Indians. 1,500 U. S. troops were reported to be in Fort Arbuckle. Northern Texas was volunteering en masse to direct from Paris, Texas, which place he left on Monday, 6th inst., states that the night previous to his leaving an express arrived from Col. Wm. C. Young asking for assistance in besieging Fort Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. Col. Young had already taken Fort Washita, but found no arms. He had with him 500 Texans, and 1000 Choctaw Indians. 1,500 U. S. troops were reported to be in Fort Arbuckle. Northern Texas was volunteering en masse to go to Young's assistance.--N. O. Picayune, 14th.
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