MG S. B. Maxey, commanding IT, gave a three-hour speech on Saturday (Nov. 5, 1864) to the Grand Council of the Confederate Indian Nations meeting at Armstrong Academy as MG Price marched southwest down Sallisaw Creek toward Dwight Mission. Armstrong Academy was a school for Choctaw boys from 1844 until it burned on January 18, 1920.

The foundation of the main Armstrong Academy building is located at GPS coordinates: (34 d, 03 m 06.15N, 96 d 06 m 20.57 W ). This site is 3.19 miles N41.61E (northeast) of Bokchito, Bryan County, Oklahoma.

Pictures of the former two-story brick main building and its current status together with a stirring story about Armstrong Academy just written by Matt Swearingin are available from the Durant Daily Democrat at:

http://durantdemocrat.com/top-stories/3122/armstrong-academy-remembered

The nearby Armstrong Academy Cemetery is located just west of the academy grounds, as referenced in Google Earth and Google Maps at:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0531393,-96.1088668,1214m/data=!3m1!1e3

Scaling from the Google marker for the cemetery yields a track of 1,000 feet along a bearing of N74E to the (center of the foundation of the) academy’s main building. A Choctaw Nation website for the old cemetery is:

http://www.felihkatubbe.com/ChoctawNation/Cemeteries/ArmstrongAcademy.html