Partisan Rangers: authorized by Confederate government,
112; W.P.
Lane’s company of Texas, 266, footnote
Paschal Fish: 205, footnote, 236, footnote
Pascofa: 62, footnote
Patton, James: 47, footnote
Pawnee Fork: 112
“Paw Paws”: 304, footnote
Payton, R.L.Y: 176, footnote
Pea-o-pop-i-cult: 65, footnote
Pearce, N. Bart: 16, 22, 156, 158
Pea Ridge (Ark.): 13, 29, 34, 36, 197
Pegg, Thomas: 256
Pelzer, Louis: work cited, 260, footnote
Peorias: 77, footnote
Perryville (Okla.): 112, 295-296
Pheasant Bluff (Okla.): 271, 327
Phelps, John S: 49, 199-200
Phil David: 68, footnote
Phillips, James A: 126, footnote
Phillips, William A: 126, 321; footnote; biographical sketch, 126, footnote; commissioned colonel of Third Indian, 132; forces engage with those of Stand Watie, 163-164; Indians under, fought well in Battle of Newtonia, 194, 195, footnote; reconnoissances, 218; orders buildings at Fort Davis destroyed, 220, footnote; given command of Indian Brigade by Blunt, 249; reports Indian Brigade in sad state, 251; large view of responsibilities to Indian Territory, 253; makes overtures to Indians, 254; expostulates against delay in attempting recovery of Indian Territory, 257; reasons for returning refugees, 258; moves over border, 258; communication with Fort Scott threatened, 272; continues in charge at Fort Gibson, 305; Indian Home
Guards under, only Federal troops left in Indian Territory, 312; undertakes extended expedition through Indian Territory, 322; gives own interpretation to Lincoln’s Amnesty Proclamation, 322-323; differences between Blunt and, 325; removed from command at Fort Gibson, 333; restored to command, 335
Phisterer, Frederick: work cited in footnotes on pages 30, 288
Piankeshaws: 77, footnote
Pickett Papers: work cited in footnotes on pages 171, 172, 175
Pike, Albert: 128; assigned to command of Department of Indian Territory, 20; report submitted to Davis, 21; report to be found in U.S. War Department, 21, footnote; makes headquarters at Cantonment Davis, 22; anxious to save Indian Territory for South, 22-23; ordered to join Van Dorn with Indians, 27; becomes ranking officer in field, 31; criticism in New York Tribune, 31, footnote; authorizes Indian fighting at Pea Ridge, 32; rejoins army at Cincinnati, 35; receives orders from Maury, 36; talk with Comanches, 65, footnote; negotiations with Upper Creeks, 66, footnote; negotiations with Seminoles, 68, footnote; intrenches himself at Fort McCulloch, 110; report on Indian military activity, 112; ordered to send more important of forces to Little Rock, 147;