. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . and was the cause of almost unparalleled sufferingamong the women and children. At one time there were fifteen thousandrefugees in Kansas, all supported by the General Government, while hundredswere daily arriving in a starving condition. The story of Opothlehola, chief of the Creeks, furnishes one of the moststriking instances of determined
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . and was the cause of almost unparalleled sufferingamong the women and children. At one time there were fifteen thousandrefugees in Kansas, all supported by the General Government, while hundredswere daily arriving in a starving condition. The story of Opothlehola, chief of the Creeks, furnishes one of the moststriking instances of determined loyalty. The Creeks had long been beset byGeneral Pike, who had finally succeeded in inducing a certain number of them to go South. But thechief Opothlehola, thennearly one hundred yearsold, and reverenced withalmost superstitious aweby the masses of hispeople, rejected all Pikesadvances, and, after along and stormy council,called on all who wishedto seek the Great Fathershand to go northwardwith him. He hastily gatheredsuch of his young menand warriors as would joinhim, with their wives andchildren, and in mid-winter, with but few pro-visions, and dragging alltheir household goods,the loyal refugees setforth for Kansas. Theywere followed by Pike. and regiments from Texas,and a bloody battle en-sued at Honey Springs,in which, as in a suc-ceeding fight, Opothleho-las little band was routedwith much slaughter. But they continued onuntil January, 1863, whenthose who remained alivereached Kansas in analmost famished condi-tion. On the dread marchmore than a thousandmen, women and childrensickened, died, and wereleft by the the old chieftainreached Kansas, his firstact was to enroll his war-riors as soldiers of theUnited States, and everyable-bodied man enlistedin the service ! Opothle- An Indian Stock-Drover. hola died shortly afterward, at Fort Leavenworth, where he was buried withmilitary honors. The various regiments from the territorial tribes on both sidesin the w
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