Digging around in my dusty files in which I made untold copies of period newspaper articles I found an article about the raising of the 4th & 5th I. H. G. regiments that adds much information we did not have before.
My first thought when I read the article was there was some serious patronage going on. However a good many of these names are unfamiliar to me. Through some digging I am sure we can find out what we need to know. Another point is that this is the first time I have read that there were intentions to raise another brigade. I would like to hear others thoughts on this. Furthermore, the article mentions confirmation from the Senate. Did this have to come from the U.S. Senate or the state of Kansas? I note that the Emporia News was using the correspondence from a Correspondent in Washington for the 'Leavenworth Times,' but the waters are murky when it comes to the organization of the Indian regiments which are raised in Kansas, officered primarily by Kansas men, and involving the Indian Bureau, a Federal agency.

The Emporia News - Emporia, Kanssas, Saturday, January 17, 1863; Weekly Summary of News ; pg. 1, Col. 5; The Indian Brigade; For some time Gen. Blunt has been making efforts to raise two new Indian Regiments raised from the refugees on the border, with them and the chiefs now in the fold, to form a brigade for operations in the Indian Territory and southern Kansas. He has at last succeeded and from the Washington correspondent of the 'Leavenworth Times', we learn of the following appointments of regimental and brigade officers.

There will be some changes in two of the old Indian regiments. In the first the reorganization will be as follows:

Colonel S. W. Wattles; Lieut. Col. George Dole, Major E. G. Barnet; Adjutant, A. T. Thomas. The Lieut. Col. is a nephew of Commissioner Dole.

Colonel Phillips' regiment (the second) (?) is regarded of the most efficient one yet in the field, by far, and will remain as now organized.

In the Third regiment are two changes, viz: J. C. Ellithorpe, promoted Lieut. Col. and E.R. Robinson, Adjutant.

The Fourth is yet to be raised under the following officers: Colonel J. M. Pomeroy; Lieut. Col. C. K. Holiday; Major Horatio Knowles; Adjutant Wm. W. Ross; Quartermaster, James Fletcher; Surgeon, R. C. Anderson; Assistant Surgeons J. F. Newlon and J. T. Hathaway.

For the Fifth regiment, also a new one, the following are the officers: Colonel D. B. Corwin; Wm. C. Gould; Quartermaster, J. C. Lamdin; Chaplain, REv. John Gingerich; Surgeon S. B. Prentiss, Assistant Surgeons, Whitehorn and Cochran.

The following is a list of Captains for the two last regiments to whom commissions have been issued: Charles P. Twiss, Michael J. Greelish, Levi Woodward, L. T. Converse, D. Drinkwater, A. Harrison, N. W. Cox, J. B. Cox, John Gardner, James A. Phillips, George H. Fairchild, F. B. Kinter, Stephen A. Cobb, John Chess, A. G. Moore, J. C. Huggins, Reuben Partridge, W. E. Bowker, S. L. Norris, W. H. Fitzpatrick and J. C. Green.

The following brigade officers are also appointed, and are awaiting confirmation in the senate: Sidney Clark, A. A. Gen.; Chester Thomas, Quartermaster; and Geo. L. Gaylord, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence.

The correspondent says that Cols. Dietzler, Ewing, Lee, Montgomery, and Weer are applicants for the command of this brigade.

For me this opens up new lines of investigation.