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faithful Indians in his/her enterprise. The Indians, in their turn they were
looking for to him very it needed assistance. Around one preceding month to
the disaster of August 10, Representative Elder had been forced for doing Strong
Scott, for the being of time the head office of Agency of Neosho, everything
being hopelessly insecure to the Seminar of Crawford. [103]
[Footnote 101: Britton, _Civil War on the Border_ the vol. the, 122.]
[Footnote 102: _Official Records_, vol. iii, 465.]
[Footnote 103: The following letter, an enclosure of a relationship from
You branch to Give, August 14 th 1861 gives some they disdain indication of his
insecurity:
OFFICE OF AGENCY OF NEOSHO
Strongly Scott, July 27 th 1861.
Mr.--I hold him/it important to inform the Department of the situation
of this Agency to this point. After having entered on the duties of this
office as for instructions--and watching out for all the business that
seemed to ask for my immediate attention--I mended to Franklin Co.
Kan. to remove my family to the Agency.
Leaving the Agency in care of James Killebrew Esq the Grower of Gov't for
the Nation of Quapaw. Soon after I went away me I was informed from him that the
Agency had been surrounded by a ribbon of armed men, and it founded a
investigation for "_that Abolizione Superintendent and Agent_." Later
the various interrogatorieses and answers of which they is returned in the direction
Missouri and Arkansas it flanks from from where them it was supposed to
you/he/she has come. He has written since then Special agent Whitney and I and
Manager Coffin told that you/he/she would have been very dangerous for me to
is to that place under the excited state and present of the public feeling
in that neighborhood. I started with my family on July 6 however and
reached Strong Scott the 9 intending of is go directed to the Agency.
Here I learned from Capt Jennison that it commands a separation of Kansas
Militia that was patrolling in that neighborhood that the country
it was full of to ransack parties from Gov. Jackson's Field in S.W. Mo.