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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
banks of the Neosho River, in front of which we shall soon again find him. In the mean time, Blunt has been relieved of the command of the Army of the Frontier, which he has exercised with so much vigor and success. McNeil, on reaching Fort Smith, finds the orders which give him this command. Winter has come, and he has nothing to contemplate except strengthening the conquest made by his predecessor. On the 27th of November he received the submission of the principal chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. These latter said to him, with a simplicity full of good sense, that they would willingly take upon themselves the defence of the territory against their enemies, the redskins, if the whites would protect them against the whites. Quantrell, in fact, had not abandoned their territory and neglected no opportunity for plunder. He at last had the audacity, on December 18th, to attack Fort Gibson itself at a moment when it contained no white troops. But about six hundred Indian warriors