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rustycoinUT
November 29th, 2005, 04:39 PM
Civil war battles in Oklahoma.

Old Fort Wayne
Beatties Prairie Oklahoma
Location: Delaware County
Brig. Gen. James G. Blunt and his troops attacked Col. Douglas H. Cooper and his Confederate command on Beatties Prairie near Old Fort Wayne at 7:00 am on October 22, 1862. The Confederates put up stiff resistance for a half hour, but overwhelming numbers forced them to retire from the field in haste, leaving artillery and equipage behind. This was a setback in the 1862 Confederate offensive that extended from the tidewater in the east to the plains of the Indian Territory of the west.
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Middle Boggy Depot
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Location:?
While on an expedition in February 1864 to meet, defeat or destroy Confederate forces in Indian Territory, Union Maj. Charles Willette and his troops surprised a Confederate force at Middle Boggy Depot on February 13. Although poorly armed, the Rebels made a determined stand for a half hour before retiring. The Union forces killed 47 Confederates during this short fight. Fear of the arrival of fresh Confederate forces influenced the Federals to retire to Fort Gibson. During Col. John F. Phillips's Indian Territory expedition, he and his men fought with and dispersed numerous Confederate forces. Middle Boggy Depot was, perhaps, the largest encounter during the expedition.
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Cabin Creek Oklahoma
Location:Mayes County
Col. James M. Williams of the First Kansas Colored Infantry led a Union supply train from Fort Scott, Kansas, to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory). As he approached the crossing of Cabin Creek, he learned that Confederate Col. Stand Watie, with about 1,600 to 1,800 men intended to assault him there. Watie was waiting for about 1,500 reinforcements under the command of Brig. Gen. William L. Cabell to join him before attacking the supply train. Cabell, however, was detained due to high water on Grand River. Cabin Creek also had high water, preventing a crossing at first, but when it had receded enough, Williams drove the Confederates off with artillery fire and two cavalry charges. The wagon train continued to Fort Gibson and delivered the supplies, making it possible for the Union forces to maintain their presence in Indian territory and take the offensive that resulted in a victory at Honey Springs and the fall of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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Honey Springs
Elk Creek, Shaw's Inn Oklahoma
Location:Muskogee County and McIntosh County

Union and Confederate troops had frequently skirmished in the vicinity of Honey Springs Depot. The Union commander in the area, Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt, correctly surmised that Confederate forces, mostly Native American troops under the command of Brig. Gen. Douglas H. Cooper, were about to concentrate and would then attack his force at Fort Gibson. He decided to defeat the Confederates at Honey Springs Depot before they were joined by Brig. Gen. William Cabell's brigade, advancing from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Blunt began crossing the swollen Arkansas River on July 15, 1863, and, by midnight on July 16-17, he had a force of 3,000 men, composed of whites, Native Americans, and African Americans, marching toward Honey Springs. Blunt skirmished with Rebel troops early on the morning of the 17th, and by midafternoon, full-scale fighting ensued. The Confederates had wet powder, causing misfires, and the problem intensified when rain began. After repulsing one attack, Cooper pulled his forces back to obtain new ammunition. In the meantime, Cooper began to experience command problems, and he learned that Blunt was about to turn his left flank. The Confederate retreat began, and although Cooper fought a rearguard action, many of those troops counterattacked, failed, and fled. Any possibility of the Confederates taking Fort Gibson was gone. Following this battle, Union forces controlled Indian Territory, north of the Arkansas River. The 1st Kansas Colored fought with courage again. Union troops under General James Blunt ran into a strong Confederate force under General Douglas Cooper. After a two-hour bloody engagement, Cooper's soldiers retreated. The 1st Kansas, which had held the center of the Union line, advanced to within fifty paces of the Confederate line and exchanged fire for some twenty minutes until the Confederates broke and ran. General Blunt wrote after the battle, "I never saw such fighting as was done by the Negro regiment....The question that negroes will fight is settled; besides they make better solders in every respect than any troops I have ever had under my command."
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rustycoinUT
April 12th, 2006, 04:26 PM
Civil War Battle Sites in Indian Territory/Oklahoma



1861


Chustenahlah in current Osage County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Cherokee Outlet
Round Mountain in current Tulsa County, northwest quarter. Fought in the Creek Nation.
Caving Banks in current Washington County, southwest quarter. Fought in the Cherokee Nation.

1862


Tonkawa Massacre in current Caddo County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Leased District.
Fort Davis in current Wagoner County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Creek Nation.
Locust Grove in current Mayes County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Cherokee Nation.
Fort Wayne in current Delaware County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Cherokee Nation.
Cowskin Prairie in current Ottawa County, southeast quarter. Fought in the area ceded by the Cherokee Nation to the Quapaws and other nations.

1863


Cabin Creek, 1st, in current Craig County, southeast quarter. Fought in the Cherokee Nation.
Honey Springs in current Muskogee County, mid point. Fought in the Creek Nation.
Webbers Falls in current Muskogee County, near Sequoyah County line. Fought in the Cherokee Nation.
Backbone Mountain in current Le Flore County, northeast quarter near Arkansas border. Fought in the Choctaw Nation.
Perryville in current Pittsburg County, northwest quarter. Fought in the Choctaw Nation.

1864


Muddy Boggy in current Atoka County, north near Coal County line. Fought in the Choctaw Nation.

1865


Boggy Depot in current Atoka County, north near Coal County line. Fought in the Choctaw Nation.
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Occupation of the Cherokee Nation by the Union Army



In the spring of 1863 the United States army chiefs in Kansas decided to occupy the Cherokee country and as much of the rest of the Indian Territory as possible, in order to permit the refugees to return to their homes. The Cherokee council's repudiation of the alliance with the Confederacy had changed very considerably the situation of the Cherokee Nation, but the activity of the forces still adhering to the South made the return of the refugees impossible without military protection.
During the late winter and early spring Colonel W. A. Phillips of the Union army carried on aggressive operations in the northern part of the Cherokee country; a little later he moved south with a strong force a little later he moved south with a strong force and occupied Fort Gibson. From this south with a strong force and occupied Fort Gibson. From this post he sent out raiding expeditions and also sought to protect the northern refugees who returned to their homes. In the latter attempt he met with only fair success. Stand Watie and other Cherokee leaders, who were very active at this time, carried on counter-raids so that there was little safety for the returned civilian population unless they remained in or very near Fort Gibson. The activity of Phillips, however, coupled with reprisals from the returning refugees, drove the southern Indian civilians south to camps along the Red River or into Texas. With some ten thousand Cherokees now aligned with the north, and with nearly seven thousand still adhering firmly to the South, the Cherokee Nation was virtually engaged in a small civil war of its own. The results were disastrous. Elias C. Boudinot, son of the elder Boudinot, had been elected delegate to the Confederate Congress at Richmond. He strove earnestly and with some success to obtain money from the government of the Confederacy to feed the starving refugees along the Red River and to supply arms and equipment to the Cherokee soldiery fighting for the southern cause. But it was not to be, and the refugees on the Red River became even more destitute than their counterparts had been in Kansas.

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Toadie
April 14th, 2006, 05:56 AM
Battle at Boggy Depot was to the north and east of the origin site of Boggy Depot by about three miles. In the later years Boggy Depot was moved to the west by about four miles I think. This puts the line of skirmish about seven miles NE of exitisting Boggy Depot.

It will take some digging but somewhere in all this mess I have some notes written by my Grandfather about Boggy Depot. He bought a lumber mill up there from a soldier in 1914 and had the foresight to write down creek names and local landmarks. Ran the mill well into the mid thirties.

He died in 1969 and the notes he wrote were with my aunts stuff when she died. If they didn't get burned up I will scan them in for y'all. I lost some notes but I think they were my own notes and research.