. The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War [electronic resource] . imits even before the states had seceded, in order thatthey might use the ordnance stores to arm and equip themilitary organizations coming into existence, and it was amatter of common knowledge that the state authoritiesconnived at and encouraged the seizures by irregular or-ganizations in every instance; some enthusiastic supportersof the South even lamented that the United States troopsin evacuating military posts had been permitted to getaway with their arms, equipments and supplies on the forts evacuated in the
. The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War [electronic resource] . imits even before the states had seceded, in order thatthey might use the ordnance stores to arm and equip themilitary organizations coming into existence, and it was amatter of common knowledge that the state authoritiesconnived at and encouraged the seizures by irregular or-ganizations in every instance; some enthusiastic supportersof the South even lamented that the United States troopsin evacuating military posts had been permitted to getaway with their arms, equipments and supplies on the forts evacuated in the Indian Territory, ColonelW- H. Emory and his subordinates were able to take awaywith them all the arms, equipments and supplies for whichthey had transportation, thus depriving the Indians andtheir Southern allies of the means of immediately armingfor the Confederate service. The difficulty of securingarms and equipments at this early period of the war forthe new levies of troops was keenly felt by the Confed-eral authorities, and also by the Federal GEN. BEN MCCULLOCHGEN. WILLIAM STEELE GEN. STANA WATIEGEN. S. B. MAXEY The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War. 33 About the first effort of the Confederate Governmentto organize the five civilized tribes of the Indian TerritoryWho had declared their adherence to the ConfederateStates, for military service, was in May, when the Con-federate Secretary of War wrote Douglas H. Cooper for-merly an Indian agent for the Choctaw and Chickasawtribes, authorizing him to raise a regiment of Choctawand Chickasaw Indians for the Confederate service to actin co-operation with General McCulloch who had been as-signed to the command of the Indian Territory west ofArkansas and south of Kansas, with a brigade of threeregiments, one each from Texas, Louisiana and regiment to be raised was to be armed and equippedby the Confederate Government as soon as practicable af-ter its organization was effected, and to be known asM
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