SECOND INDIAN CAVALRY BRIGADE As the Civil War progressed in
Indian Territory, in late 1863 and early 1864 Maj. Gen. Samuel
Bell Maxey, commander of the District of Indian Territory,
recruited additional regiments, sought new sources of resupply,
and reorganized his Confederate command into two brigades (a
third was planned but never effected). The Second Indian
Brigade, under Col. Tandy Walker, comprised primarily veteran
soldiers drawn from numerous Choctaw and Chickasaw units. In
late 1864, for example, it contained the Second Choctaw
Regiment, led by Col. Simpson N. Folsom, the First Chickasaw
Battalion, under Lt. Col. Lemuel N. Reynolds, the First Choctaw
Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Jackson McCurtain, the First
Choctaw and Chickasaw Battalion, under Lt. Col. James Riley, and
Capt. George Washington's Reserve Squadron. The brigade
participated in the Camden campaign in Arkansas and was
commended for its performance at the Battle of Poison Spring in
April 1864. During that engagement about 680 members