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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
d put an end to Price's hope of holding the rich and friendly counties in the vicinity of Lexington till the Confederacy could send an army to his support, and arms and supplies for the men whom he was concentrating there. Price had, indeed, no alternative now but to retreat in all haste to the south-western part of the State, so as to organize his army within supporting distance of the force which McCulloch was assembling in western Arkansas for the protection of that State and the Indian Territory. He accordingly ordered Brigadier-General James S. Rains to take command of the militia at and near Lexington, and to move southward so as to effect a junction with the Governor in the vicinity of Lamar, toward which place the latter was retreating with Generals M. M. Parsons and John B. Clark and what was left of their commands. General Price himself, accompanied by his staff and a small escort, hastened rapidly toward Arkansas in order to bring McCulloch to the rescue of both the Go
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
ograph. ability in laying out encampments was extraordinary, and challenged the admiration of our troops. In a strategical point of view, McCulloch was more bent to the defense of the Trans-Mississippi region, especially Arkansas and the Indian Territory, which district had been put under his command, than to aggressive movements beyond the borders of Arkansas. Price had also had military experience in the Mexican war, which circumstance, combined with his political position, his irreproachuntains to Fayetteville and Elm Springs, at which latter place its advance arrived on the evening of the 5th. On this march Price's troops were leading, followed by the division of McCulloch, while General Albert Pike, who had come from the Indian Territory by way of Evansville with a brigade of Indians, brought up the rear. The secrecy of the movement was so well kept that positive news did not reach us until the 5th, when the Confederates were about a day's march from my position at McKissic
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
liam Weer, 10th Kansas Infantry, into the Indian Territory to drive out the Confederate forces of Piction at Locust Grove, near Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, July 2d, Colonel Weer's cavalry capturedy, captured Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and on the 19th of July Colonel Jewell, t Gibson, the most important point in the Indian Territory. The Confederate forces were now drivisfaction of the Federal commander in the Indian Territory. On the Confederate side, General Albole nations or tribes, for service in the Indian Territory. These regiments, under General Pike, pall the United States Indian agents in the Indian Territory were secessionists, and the moment the Sol and most civilized of the tribes of the Indian Territory, it was different. Their chief, John Rosction, and should not be taken out of the Indian Territory. Even before the treaty with Commissionee confined, with a few exceptions, to the Indian Territory. In connection with white troops from Te