[Footnote 286:  Salomon was born in Prussia in 1826 [Rosengarten, The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States, 150].  He had distinguished himself in some of the fighting that had taken place in Missouri in the opening months of the war and, when the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry, composed solely of German-Americans, had been recruited, he was called to its command [Love, Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, 578].]

[Footnote 287:  Official Records, vol. xiii, 371-372, 377.]

[Footnote 288:  for an account of Doubleday’s movements in April that very probably gained him the place, see Britton, Civil War on the Border, vol. i, 296.]

[Footnote 289:  Official Records, vol. xiii, 397, 408.]

Weer to supersede him and for his own assignment to the Second Brigade of the expedition.

Previous to his supersedure by Weer, Doubleday conceived that it might be possible to reach Fort Gibson with ease,[290] provided the attempt to do so should be undertaken before the various independent secessionist commands could unite to resist.[291] That they were planning to unite there was every indication.[292] Doubleday[293] was especially desirous of heading off Stand Watie who was still hovering around in the neighborhood of his recent adventures, and was believed now to have an encampment on Cowskin Prairie near Grand River.  Accordingly, on the morning of June 6, Doubleday started out, with artillery and a thousand men, and, going southward from Spring River, reached the Grand about sundown.[294] Watie was three miles away and, Doubleday continuing the pursuit, the two forces came to an engagement.  It was indecisive,[295] however, and Watie slipped away under

[Footnote 290:  Doubleday to Moonlight, May 25, 1862, Official Records, vol. xiii, 397.]

[Footnote 291:  Doubleday to Blunt, June 1, 1862, Ibid., 408.]

[Footnote 292:  General Brown reported on this matter, June 2 [Ibid., 409] and June 4 [Ibid., 414], as did also General Ketchum, June 3 [Ibid., 412].  They all seem to have had some intimation that General Pike was to unite with Stand Watie as well as Coffee and others, and that was certainly General Hindman’s intention.  On May 31, the very day that he himself assumed command, Hindman had ordered Pike to advance from Fort McCulloch to the Kansas border.  The order did not reach Pike until June 8 and was repeated June 17 [Ibid., 40].]

[Footnote 293:  The idea seems to have obtained among Missourians that Doubleday was all this time inactive.  They were either ignorant of or intent upon ignoring the Indian Expedition.  June 4, Governor Gamble wrote to Secretary Stanton asking that the Second Ohio and the Ninth Wisconsin, being at Fort Scott and unemployed, might be ordered to report to Schofield [Ibid., 414, 438], who at the instance of politicians and contrary to the wishes of Halleck [Ibid., 368] had been given an independent command in Missouri.]