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Re: Comanches allied to Confederacy

Well Anderson does say right there that the Arapaho, Osage, and Comanche were under Watie and served as good reliable scouts. The Osages alos pique my curiousity...Period pictures from around that time have people like Hard Rope and I believe also Broken Arm, dressed in a traditional manner.....I think this would imply that they were dressed like that (shaved heads, leggings, breech clouts, paint) and using the older weapons like bows and hatchets(some of them did behead a CSA patrol in one fight) while out in the field during for both the Union and CSA....I will try and post anything else that is interesting as I find it.....This is pretty interesting stuff---john

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