My impression is that those "loyal" refugees around Ft Gibson (Ft Blunt) were provided for as well as Phillips could -- running the mills and salt works and trying to hang on to cattle and other livestock -- so they struggled but weren't starving. Those trying to live away from the fort -- particularly Cherokee and Creeks -- had to deal with jayhawkers, bushwackers, Pins, renegades, and scouts of both armies. Hanging on to your food and your life was a daily challenge. For those in the southern Indian Territory and North Texas, seems these were predominately mixed bloods and white Indians who probably sufferred the same as many residents of the area. The Cherokee had family connections in Texas so, while extraordinarily difficult, they weren't dying of starvation. Anyone living in western settlements was at risk from "Wild Indians" whether in Texas or Indian Territory but one of the worst attacks was Delaware and others out of Kansas that attacked the Wichita Agency (near Ft Cobb) and then slaughtered the Tonkawa.