re: rations for Indians camped on the North bank of Red River provided in Bohham and Paris, Texas in 1864 and 1865.
..Who provided these 13,054 rations?
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Question? Who handed out rations to Indians in 1864 and 1865 in Paris and Bonham, Texas?
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Question? Do we have documentation suggesting that a Texas CSA Subsistence officer in Paris or
Bonham gave rations to an Indian such as A.J. Berryhill cited below? ..Immediately below is McCulloch’s
paragraph that go my attention.
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part of Gen. H.E. McCulloch's letter to Col. James Bourland found in THE BOURLAND PAPERS.
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Bonham, Texas
Jan 7, 1864
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COLONEL [James Bourland, Commanding on Frontier]:
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.. If you are authorized to feed the Indians by the commanding officers of the Indian Territory, or any
Indian agent, it is all right to do so. But we are not at liberty to feed them from this district, as they belong
to the Indian Territory, so if you feed them [Indians], the expenses must be paid by the officials of that
Territory. ..
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Henry E. McCulloch, Brig-Gen., Commanding Northern Sub-District per BP-DM4406-3O-168.
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from my book:
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BERRYHILL's 1937 statement.
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Records show that 13,024 Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Osages, and Seminoles received rations while
camped north of the Red River from the winter of 1863 until the end of the War. Bourland had placed men
along the south bank of the Red River to monitor all travelers and block unauthorized people from crossing
Red River. per Gibson’s THE CHICKSAWS, p270 .
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Below is A.J. Berryhill’s (b-1856) statement dictated in 1937 to the Federal Writers’ Project interviewer.
per U.S.
FWP, WPA Indian-Pioneer Papers #6646.
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“My mother, with a great number of other women, their children and what few personal belongings they
could carry, fled south ahead of the [July 1863] retreat of the Confederate Army. They swam the
Canadian River and continued the long weary march south which terminated at the Colbert Ferry. We
camped on the bank of the Red River and each day brought more refugees until it grew into quite a large
camp. We remained in this camp in the Choctaw Nation about one year, until the close of the War.
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“We would draw our rations from the military supply headquarters at Bonham and Paris, Texas. I can
remember riding
horseback behind my mother to Bonham to draw supplies. It would take us a day to ride from the camp to
Bonham where we would
camp for the night and draw our rations. The next morning, mother and I with our sack of rations on the old
disabled army horse that the military headquarters had given us would start on the 20-mile trip back to the
camp. During the time in this camp my mother was married to a Cherokee by the name of Wilson Cordrey.
After the War, the refugees in this camp returned to the Cherokee Nation.”
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BERRYHILL, Andrew Jackson Berryhill, b-1856 IT; son of Nancy Sizemore and Jefferson Berryhill.
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CORDERY, Wilson Cordery; m-Nancy (Sizemore) Berryhill (Cherokee Mtd Vols, CSA)
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My web page that addresses passports and Berryhill.
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/PassportsRedRiver.htm
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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