[Solar-cd-sl-win] upation [Foo

Fri Oct 1 11:42:07 CEST 2010

F rations of coffee.
As soon as I was got rid of, an order from Gen. Hindman took all the
remaining coffee, some 3,000 lbs., to Fort

Smith. Even in this small matter, he could not forego an opportunity of
injuring and disappointing them. You asked me, in August, what was the
need of any white troops at all, in the Indian Country; and you said
that the few mounted troops, I had, if kept in the Northern part of the
Cherokee Country, would have been enough to repel any Federal force that
ever would have entered it. As you and Hindman never allowed any
ammunition procured by me, to reach the Indian Country, if you could
prevent it, whether I obtained
it at Richmond or Corinth,

or in Texas, and as you approve of his course in taking out of that
country all that was to be
found in it, I am entitled to suppose
that you regarded ammunition for the Indians as little necessary, as
troops to protect

them in conformity to the pledge of honor of the Government. One thing,
however, is to be said to the credit of your next in command. When he
has ordered anything to be seized, he has never denied having done so,
or tried to cast responsibility on an inferior. After
you had written to me that you had ordered Col. Darnell to seize, at
Dallas,
Texas, ammunition furnished
by me, you denied to him, I understand, that you had given the order. Is
it so? and _did_ he refuse to trust the order in your hands, or even to
let you see it, but would show it to Gen. McCulloch? Probably you know
by this time, if you are capable of learning _any_ thing, whether any
white troops are
needed
in the Indian Country. The brilliant result of Gen. Hindman's profound
calculations and masterly strategy, and of
his long-contemplated invasion of Missouri, is before the country; and
the disgraceful rout at Fort

Wayne, with the manoeuvres and results on the Arkansas, are pregnant
commentaries on the abus
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