[Footnote 201:  Halleck to Stanton, March 28, 1862, Official Records, vol. viii, 647-648.]

[Footnote 202:—­Ibid., 612]

[Footnote 203:—­Ibid., 832.]

[Footnote 204:  Those troops, about five thousand, were left under the command of George W. Deitzler, colonel of the First Kansas (Ibid., 614), a man who had become prominent before the war in connection with the Sharpe’s rifles episode (Spring, Kansas, 60) and whose appointment as an Indian agent, early in 1861, had been successfully opposed by Lane (Robinson, Kansas Conflict, 458).  There will be other occasions to refer to him in this narrative.  He is believed to have held the secret that induced Lane to commit suicide in 1866 [Ibid., 457-460].]

[Footnote 205:  Stanton to Halleck, March 26, 1862 [Official Records, vol. liii, supplement, 516].]

the order for Denver’s assignment to duty until further notice.[206] Stanton, to whom Halleck applied[207] for an explanation, deprecated[208] the political interference of the Kansas senators and the influence it had had with the chief executive, but he, too, had to give way.  So effective was the Lane-Pomeroy objection to Denver that even a temporary[209] appointment of him, resorted[210] to by Halleck because of the urgent need of some sort of a commander in Kansas, was deplored by the president.[211] Denver was then sent to the place where his abilities and his experience would be better appreciated, to the southernmost part of the state, the hinterland of the whole Indian country.[212] Official indecision and personal envy pursued him even there, however, and it was not long before he was called eastward.[213] The man who succeeded him in command of the District of Kansas[214] was one who proved to be his ranking officer[215] and his rival, Brigadier-general S.D.  Sturgis.  Blunt succeeded him at Fort Scott.

[Footnote 206:  Lincoln to Halleck, March 21, 1862, Official Records, vol. liii, supplement, 516.]

[Footnote 207:  Halleck to Stanton, March 26, 1862, Ibid.]

[Footnote 208:  “Deprecated” is, perhaps, too mild a word to describe Stanton’s feeling in the matter.  Adjutant-general Hitchcock is authority for the statement that Stanton threatened “to leave the office” should the “enforcement” of any such order, meaning the non-assignment of Denver and the appointment of a man named Davis [Davies?], believed by Robinson to be a relative of Lane [Kansas Conflict, 446], be attempted [Hitchcock to Halleck, March 22, 1862, Official Records, vol. viii, 832-833].]

[Footnote 209:—­Ibid., vol. liii, supplement, 519.]

[Footnote 210:—­Ibid., vol. viii, 647-648.]

[Footnote 211:—­Ibid., vol. liii, supplement, 519.]

[Footnote 212:  Concerning the work, mapped out for Denver, see Halleck to Sturgis, April 6, 1862 [Official Records, vol. viii, 668] and Halleck to Stanton, April 7, 1862 [Ibid., 672].]