The Indian Territory in the Civil War Message Board

One record of a skirmish from the IPP

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: May 24, 1937
Name: Louis Taylor
Post Office: Tahlequah, OK
Date of Birth: March 14, 1856
Place of Birth: Goingsnake District
Father: John Taylor
Mother: Jane Taylor
Field Worker: Gus Hummingbird
Interview #: 5958
Vol. 103

“The only battle that I know anything about was the battle that was fought near the present village of Welling. This battle was fought about three miles southeast of this little place. A group of Home Guards routed a small detachment of Confederate Scouts who had entered the Indian Territory and were stealing everything that they could carry away. According to Arch Scraper, who was a Captain of a group of Home Guards, a few men were killed in the skirmish. The Confederates were driven out of the Cherokee Country.”

Welling is in Cherokee Co a few miles north of Park Hill. I am sure these unrecorded skirmishes happened on a daily basis all over the territory, but I like to find written evidence like this.