some estimated that opthleyahola joined so only 2,000 fighting men. cooper had 2,000 federates to attack pursue troop of opthleyahola. he fleed to kansas. there were a number of deaths 105.er fourse of which was former horss that's something we can talk about in the q and a.is several were from the campaign for opthleyahola. the cherokee minister wrote in 1862, he heard about 14 men lost fighting. theem additional death came from the texas calvary that coronal cooper called in. despite thee losses the confederateau forces proclaimeda victory. they forced so many into kansas andpo neutralized the threat. with this threat remain outside of indian territory. missionary warned once the conditions improved there were times in the territory again unless therere is considerable force of confederacy to impose old posey, another nickname. if this was widespread among the choctaw in particular it might explain the burst offendlessness in january of 1861. the men joined the regiment at eagle town. they were all located in the southeastern corner of the nation cl