More on Tullahassee from the autobiography of Rev. James Ross Ramsay:

… We reached Ft. Gibson which was on the 6th of December 1866…. Mr. Robertson and I mounted our horses and started to reconnoiter Tullahassee Mission. We were obliged to ford the Neosho [Grand] and Verdigris Rivers in order to reach Tullahassee. Finally the old Mission hove in sight but when we entered the building, and saw the ruin - the wanton ruin and destruction – we were filled with grief. For, from the attic to the cellar, there had been wanton destruction of the windows, the doors, the floors; whilst even the dining room had been made into a stable. There was hardly a door left and nearly all the floor had been removed…. After we had viewed the ruins, we again mounted our horses and started for Choska, ten miles distant. We arrived there just before night and found some of our old people, the Perrymans, Joe Perryman, and Sanford Perryman, Josiah Perryman, and their wives, who had been pupils in our schools….

It was perfect desolation and, although it was a large building, we had some difficulty in finding and comfortable place to lodge for the night. We had to hang up some sheets and quilts and blankets to make any door to protect us from the wild beasts. All the fences had been destroyed and the wolves were howling in the yard…. Mr. Robertson, accompanied by Simon Brown, as an interpreter, scoured the country, searching for stolen doors, the windows and flooring of the Mission and succeeded in getting wagon loads of them. By this means, he succeeded in closing up the rooms, one for him and one for us, tolerably comfortably.

The next thing was to clean out the well. It was a deep well, some seventy feet deep but it was filled up with one trash and another, almost to the surface. …there was everything that you could name in the well. There was wood, plows, hoes, axes, bones, and cowhides. The well was literally filled full of tools and trash. This had been done by the soldiers who had quarters there during the war. For a while it was occupied by the Rebels. When the Union troops came, the Rebels fled but before they left, they filled up the well so as to prevent the Union Troops from obtaining water….