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| | CIVIL WAR REFUGEES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | But the 1862 Indian Expedition failed, and one year after the war began, the Union agent reported that 5,487 refugees were still encamped at LeRoy, Kansas. |
 | | Samuel Bell Maxey, ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, knew the Indian families, many now destitute, must be cared for to assure their men would fight on in the Confederate Second Indian Cavalry Brigade helping defend the Texas border. |
 | | Indian women carded cotton, spun yarn, and wove their own fabric to provide clothing for themselves and their men. |
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