Scope and Content Note

Special Orders, issued by 1st Corps Commander Thomas Carmichael Hindman at Fort Smith, Arkansas December 3, 1862, and at Van Buren, Arkansas December 21 and 24, 1862, and by Department Commander Theophilus Hunter Holmes at Little Rock, Arkansas December 20, 1862. Orders, pertaining to matters of military transport and the provisioning of troops in western Arkansas and the Indian Territory, relate to Charles B. Johnson, Thomas Lanigan, Robert Crittenden Newton, and Albert Pike.

Scope and Content Note Letters, receipts, invoices, military orders and other documents pertaining to the work of Charles B. Johnson and his partner, Marshall Grimes, contractors with the Confederate States Army for provisioning Reserve Indians and troops; to the transport and supply functions of the Trans Mississippi Department, C. S. A., in Arkansas, Texas, and the Indian Territory; and to relations between the Confederate States of America and the several Indian nations in the area. Correspondents and persons...