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Lucinda Davis, Tulsa, Oklahoma

     Former Creek slave gives her eyewitness account of the Honey Springs battle.  She details union and confederate troop movements near her home on Old Texas Road.

Kansas State Historical SOCIETY

     At Honey Springs, Indian Territory,  the First Kansas (colored) created history one day before the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts gained its fame July 18 at Battery Wagner, South Carolina.

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First Kansas (colored) Volunteer

Infantry Regiment.

The Great "Honey Springs" Battlefield

Rentiesville, Oklahoma.

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OFFICIAL REPORTS.

General Orders No. 25. - Brig. Gen. Douglas H. Cooper, First Brig., Indian Troops.

No. 10. -Brig. Gen. Douglas H. Cooper, C.S. Army, commanding consolidated forces.

No. 9. --Capt. Henry Hopkins, Hopkins' Kansas Battery.

No. 8. --Col. Stephen H. Wattles, First Indian Home Guards.

No. 7. --Maj. J. Nelson Smith, Second Colorado Infantry, Phillips' brigade.

No. 6. --Capt. Edward A. Smith, Second Kansas Battery.

No. 5. --Capt. Edward R. Stevens, Third Wisconsin Cavalry.

No. 4. --Lieut. Col. William T. Campbell, Sixth Kansas Cavalry.

No. 3. --Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Schaurte, Second Indian Home Guards.

No. 2. --Lieut. Col. John Bowles, First Kansas Colored Infantry, Judson's brigade.

No. 1. --Maj. Gen James G. Blunt, U.S. Army, commanding District of the Frontier.

Official records of the Union and Confederate armies

Series I, Vol. XXII, Chap. XXXIV,

Part I, pp. 447-462

CHAP. XXXIV.]     ENGAGEMENT NEAR HONEY SPRINGS, IND. T.

JULY 17, 1863. -- Engagement at Elk Creek, near Honey Springs, Ind. T.

References

Towns and Communities:

Checotah, Eufaula, Ft. Gibson (Ft. Blunt), Muskogee (Creek Agency), Oktaha (Shaw's Inn), Rentiesville (Honey Springs, Elk Creek), Stidham (North Fork Town), and Summit (Chimney Mountain).

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

The American Slave, Vol. 7: 53-64.

Honey Springs Battlefield

Oklahoma Historical Society

Kansas State Historical Society

Picture Credits:

Library of Congress, P&P, LC-USZ62-105556, LC-USZ62-117997

Honey Springs Battlefield Poster

For Sale on eBay Inc., Honey Springs Digital Art Poster.

Keywords:

Honey Springs, Civil War, Indian Territory, Art, Poster.

Texans' offensive

March across the prairie

Movement to the front

Opening movements

Order of Battle

Road to Honey Springs

Home Page

The following day

After the battle

Capture of wagon depot

Capture of the bridge

Battle's turning point

The counterattack

Mission Accomplished

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