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Re: Rev Worcester Willey
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I understand that Dwight Mission is about to be renovated, thanks to matching $120,000 matching grants from the Cherokee Nation and the Walton Foundation.

It appears to me that Sterling Price's Confederate Army passed by Dwight Mission on the morning of 11-6-64, followed a "long" day later by MG S. R. Curtis' Federal Army. Both Price and Curtis say that they followed Sallisaw Creek nearly all the way down to the Arkansas River. (Well, Curtis followed Price.) Price seems to have abandoned his carriage near Bunch, OK, and Curtis noticed it late the next day as he rode by it abandoned along the side of the road. Price leisurely crossed the Arkansas at Pheasant Ford on the 7th, just upstream of the mouth of Sallisaw Creek, being 25 miles above Ft. Smith and 25 miles below the Illinois River (according to Curtis). Curtis arrived on the north bank on the morning of the 8th, fired a few artillery salutes, and waved good-bye old man. Neither army mention Dwight Mission in passing, as most of the buildings had been burned, and the school's church abandoned in late 1862.

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