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A CURIOUS STRANGER IN INDIAN TERRITORY
Some fifty days after the train robbery near Cincinnati, I found myself back in the land of the Five Civilized Tribes of eastern Indian Territory. Having traveled the entire distance with Loreta heavy on my mind, I returned in time to see the war out with General Watie and his men right up to Watie’s surrender in Doaksville on June 23, 1865, some two months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
News traveled slowly in those days.
I did not know of Lee’s surrender on April 9 until returning to Indian Territory. The news gave me to know that the Ohio train robbery on May 5 happened squarely after war’s end, surely making the K.G.C. action there against civilians a non-war affair that could land the participants in prison for a long time.
I also di
