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fair of offer of appointment, to the
[Footnote 18: _Official Records_, vol. liii, supplement,
816-817.]
[Footnote 19: Ibid., 762.]
[Footnote 20:--Ibid., vol. viii, 725.]
[Footnote 21:--Ibid., 701.]
[Footnote 22: Wright, Official of _General of the Confederate Army_,
33, 67.]
[Footnote 23: _Official Records_, vol. viii, 702.]
[Footnote 24: _Journal of the Congress of the Confederate
States_, vol. the, 637.]
[Footnote 25: Formby, Civil _American War_, 129.]
time that has been done, to put an end to all the local disputes and to give
Missouri the attention that she has persistently asked. The department of artillery of the
Confederation had wakened up to a sense of the value of the lead mines[26]
to Granby and Van Dorn to especially protect them was educated. [27]
His/her appointment, besides preoperating a first meeting with the
Federals in Missouri. In preparation for the struggle that all have known
you/he/she was impending, it was of the transcendent importance that a mind and one
interest should check, completely.
The District of Trans-Mississippi would seem to have been constituted
and his/her limits to have been defined without reference suitable to
existing setups. The limits were, "That part of the State of
Northerly in Louisiana of Red River, the west of Indian Territory of Arkansas,
and States of Arkansas and Missouri, except therefrom the line
of east country of the Saint Francis, confining with on the Mississippi
River, from the mouth of the Saint Francis to Scott County,
Missouri...."[28] Van Dorn, in conceited command of the district,
January 29 th 1862, issued orders in such form that Indian Territory was
listed last among the limits[29] and it was a preceding setup
Indian and touching territory that has been ignored more in the whole scheme
of organization.
You/he/she will be remembered that, in November of the preceding year, the
Department of Indian Territory had been created and General of brigade-general
Alberto Picca assigned to the same. [30] Your authority expressly was not