Article provides an account by Francena Lavinia Martin Sutton, one of a party of five women and three children who journeyed to Arkansas in the midst of the Civil War. Sutton relates struggles they faced on the road and interactions with Choctaws, who hosted them when they wandered into Indian Territory.
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Article provides an account by Francena Lavinia Martin Sutton, one of a party of five women and three children who journeyed to Arkansas in the midst of the Civil War. Sutton relates struggles they faced on the road and interactions with Choctaws, who hosted them when they wandered into Indian Territory.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
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Martin Sutton, Francena Lavinia & Fischer, LeRoy H.A Civil War Experience of Some Arkansas Women in Indian Territory,
article,
Spring 1979;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2099570/:
accessed June 14, 2025),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.