Please help identify the William CLOUD who Brig-Gen. E.K. Smith appointed to be an agent for the Choctaw Nation.
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Question: Did Union Colonel Wm. F. CLOUD of the 2nd Kansas Cavalry forge Maj-Gen. E.K. Smith's name?
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Immediately below is a July 11, 1864 letter that Lt. H.A. Whaley wrote to Major W. Quayle that suggests that Mr. Wm. Cloud's papers were not quite up to snuff.
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Below that letter is part of General D.H. Cooper March 21, 1864 letter to Scott from the OFFICIAL RECORD, ORIv34/2[S#62]p1073. I have included only the 3rd paragraph from Cooper's very lenghty letter.
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Below these two letters are entries of the major characters from my Name Index.
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July 11, 1864
TST Major Wm. Quayle
Commanding, 1st Frontier District,
Texas State Troops
Decatur, Texas

Major,

I have carefully examined the papers of Mr. Wm. Cloud and find that he has been [the] regularly appointed Agent of the Choctaw Nation for Shipping Cotton to Eagle Pass [Maverick County] and purchasing Supplies for the [Indian] Nations and his papers have been approved by Genl. E. Kirby Smith forbidding all authorities from interference with his transportation.

By order of Jas. Bourland, Col. Commanding Texas Border Cavalry Regt., CSA

Henry A. Whaley, Lt & Adjt.

Gainesville, Texas
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from 3rd paragarph of ORIv34/2[S#62]p1073
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March 21, 1864
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CAPTAIN T.M. Scott, Adjutant General
Maxey's Office
Fort Towson, I.T.
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I will defer a more full reply to Gen. Maxey's letter for a few days, with the hope of hearing from Capt. [W.P.] Adair, who has been gone two weeks in the vicinity of Fort Smith. I will call your attention, however, to one fact. The troops who have operated in the Indian country were organized as an Indian expedition in 1862 from Kansas. It was made of corps picked up near Pike's Peak and in Kansas, outside the regular forces operating against Arkansas and under separate leadership. In the summer of 1862, when [Union Gen. S.R.] Curtis moved from Elkhorn [Benton County, Ar.] down White River and on toward
Helena [Phillips County, Ar.], this force, under Union Colonels [W.] Weer, [F.] Salomon, [W.F.] CLOUD, and [W.A.] Phillips, moved down Grand River to Fort Gibson. I succeeded in driving them back and followed up to Newtonia [Newton County], Mo., that fall.
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D.H. Cooper, Brig-General, Hdqts Cooper’s Division
Fort Washita, I.T. per ORIv34/2[S#62]p1073.
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CLOUD, Wm. Cloud, b-1832 AL; 1860 Cooke cen p211, $2,000/$10,000 (Lt, Cooke Co, TST) a lieutenant in 9 militia ... Bourland and Whaley knew him quite well.
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CLOUD, Wm. F. Cloud (Col, 2d Cavalry, KS Union)
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SCOTT, Thomas Morton Scott (1828 OH-1911) m-E.M. Shirley (Capt, A.Adj., Co I, Maxey's 9th Inf, TX CSA)
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WHALEY, Henry A. Whaley (1826 Rhea Co TN-1898 Clay Co TX, Benvanue Cem) m-Annanellie Melhellen; Mex War; 11th Cav, Co B (Lt, Adj, Bourland's Regt) on 30 pages of my book
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No one named "Cloud" is listed in Don Martini's WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS, A GENEALOGICAL NOTEBOOK, 1698-1907, a rather extensive book of Choctaw records.
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Again, who was the "Wm. Cloud, agent for the Choctaw Nation"?
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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