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Commissioner of Indian Business, _Report_, 1862, p. 150].]
[Footnote 174: Representative G.C. Snow brought, February 13 th 1862, on the
the absolute abandonment of the Seminoles [General of Indian Office
Files, _Seminole_ 1858-1869] and, in the same day, Coffin
[Ibid., _Southern Superintendency_, 1859-1862 C 1526] to
the same effect on the refugees as a whole. They was entering,
he said, approximately winds to sixty for day. The "abandonment, uneasiness and
to suffer among them is over the power of some pen to withdraw, it
you/he/she must be sees for being inclusive--there is here now more than two thousand men,
women and children completely the barefooted and more than that number that
doesn't have rags enough to hide their nudity, many are dead and them
continually you/he/she is dying. I should think to a raw supposition that from 12 to
15 one hundred dead Ponies are placing around in the field and in the river.
On this so early account as the time a little heat becomes, a removal
of this field indespensables will be, they are now perhaps there two thousand
Pony living, they is a lot of poor men and many of them they have to die before
grass comes us we wait for there what here from the first one to March 10.
We am publishing a small corn to (the cont.)]
time for economy. The inadequacy of the Indian service and the
the ineffectiveness of the Federal one didn't introduce more clearly him to the absolute one,
disrepute of the nation, that to this period and in this connection.
Besides getting allowed by Secretary Smith to go on and provisioning
the most pressing necessities of the refugees, Give brought defeasible another
thing greatly to their interest. He assured from the personnel of General
Lane a special agent, the Dr. William Kile of Illinois,[175] who
you/he/she had previously been a partner of business of his/her own[176] and, as
Manager Coffin, his/her more intimate friend. Kile
the particular duty as special agent had to be the to purchase of provisionings
for the refugees[177] and he immediately visited their camp in order
the best to determine their requisite. His/her investigations more