Note 275 — IV. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST INDIAN EXPEDITION
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Footnote 275:
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The propriety of permitting the refugee Quapaws to "return to their homes by accompanying the military expedition" was urged upon the Indian Office in a letter from Elder to Coffin, May 29, 1862 [Coffin to Dole, June 4, 1862, ibid., Southern Superintendency, Neosho, C 1663 of 1862].