The losses they sustained were the direct result of their loyalty to the Government. For this loyalty they were not only driven from their homes but man of them — men, women, and children — in their flight from the Indian Territory to Kansas during the winter of 1861 — 2 lost their lives by attacks made upon them by other Indians and by organized whites, and all of them suffered untold hardships. More than of the men entered the Union Army. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his report for the year 1865 says.
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