Feb 8: Seizure of Little Rock Arsenal by State Troops.
Feb 12: Seizure of U.S. Stores, Pine Bluff by State Troops.
April 18: Seizure of U.S.Stores, Napoleon, Ark. by State Troops.
April 23: Seizure of Fort Smith, Ark.
May 6: Adoption by State of Secession Ordinance.
Dec. 9: Skirmish: Bushy Creek, AR.
May 4: Seizure of Ordinance Stores.
Sept 1: Skirmish: Fort Scott, KS. KANSAS: 5th Cavalry.
*Oct. 28, 1861 John G. Shawbell of Ottumwa, Coffey Co. KS enlisted in Lane's Cavalry Brigade. On Nov. 28, 1861 Lane's Brigade mustered into the 9th Regiment Kansas Cavalry.
April 16: Abandonment of Fort Washita by Union Forces.
May 5: Abandonment of Fort Arbuckle by Union Forces.
May 5: Abandonment of Fort Cobb by Union Forces.
Confedrate Forces with Indians engaged at :
Nov.19: ROUND MOUND. First engagement of the Civil War in Indian Territory.
Dec. 9: CHUSTO TALASAH.
Dec.26: CHUSTENALAH.
*The above operations were conducted to stop the exodus led by Creek Chief Opotheleyoholo, of over four thousand Indian and former slave refugees who refused to join the confederacy from Indian Territory to Kansas. Chasing them down were Col. Cooper's Confederate forces of 4th TX Cavalry, Col. D.N. McIntosh's Creek Regiment, and the Creek, Seminole Regiments led by Maj. Chilly McIntosh and Maj. John Jumper.
At Round Mound Opotheleyoholo beat back the confederates and continued on the escape to Kansas. Offered hosiptality in a Cherokee village at the Big Bend of the Arkansas, Opotheleyoholo accepted and headed northeast toward it during to night hoping to get to the safety of Kansas. Col. Cooper and his forces of two thousand found them and the battle ensued along the south bank of Bird Creek. When it was over Cooper lost 15 killed and 37 wounded. Five hunderd Cherokee deserted the battle.
December 26, at Chustenalah also called Shoal Creek, Cooper, the McIntosh's, and Jumper were joined by Col. Stand Watie and Elias C. Boudinet's Cherokee and scattered the refugees, captured almost all of their oxen, wagon and supplies. *The fleeing refugees killed and ate their horses, used the hides and bodies for shelter. Women crept from hiding places in gullies, after the pursuing horsemen had passed and picked kernels of corn from the horses droppings to chew for food. Mother's, terrifed and discouraged, threw their babies into freezing mudholes and trampled the life out of them. Running for their lives toward Kansas, more than seven hundred men, women and children were killed.
*Re: 'Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865' by Jay Monaghan ©1955.Univ.of Nebraska Press.
April 20: The seizure of Liberty Arsenal in Liberty, MO. by Confedrate forces.
May 4: The seizure of property at Westport, MO (Kansas City, MO.)
August 28: Skirmish: Ball's Mill, MO. KANSAS: 5th, 9th(Co.C), Cavalry 1sth Battery Light Arty.
August 29: Skirmish: Morse's Mill, MO. KANSAS: 5th, 6th, 9th Cavalry. 1st Battery Light Arty.
Sept. 2: Action: Fort Scott, Drywood Creek,KS. KANSAS: 5th, 6th, 9th Cavalry. 1st Battery Light Arty. *Union Losses: 4 killed, 9 wounded.
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