Caught in the Maelstrom : the Indian nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865 / by Clint Crowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowe, Clint, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Indians of North America.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Indian.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Place of Publication:

El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2019]

Summary:

"Incredibly detailed and well-documented" ( San Francisco Book Review ), a revelatory history of the actions of five Indian Nations during the Civil War. The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole-during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe's magisterial Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War reveals the complexity and the importance of this war within a war, and explains how it affected the surrounding states in the Trans-Mississippi West and the course of the broader war engulfing the country. The onset of the Civil War exacerbated the divergent politics of the five tribes and resulted in the Choctaw and Chickasaw contributing men for the Confederacy and the Seminoles contributing men for the Union. The Creeks were divided between the Union and the Confederacy, while the internal war split apart the Cherokee nation mostly between those who followed Stand Watie, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, and John Ross, who threw his majority support behind the Union cause. Throughout, Union and Confederate authorities played on divisions within the tribes to further their own strategic goals by enlisting men, signing treaties, encouraging bloodshed, and even using the hard hand of war to turn a profit. Crowe's study is grounded upon a plethora of archival resources, newspapers, diaries, letter collections, and other accounts. Caught in the Maelstrom examines every facet of this complex and fascinating story in a manner sure to please the most demanding reader.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Maps

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. The Division Over Removal

2. The Knights of the Golden Circle and the Keetoowah Society

3. Alliance with the Confederacy

4. Opothleyahola's Revolt

5. Pea Ridge

6. John Ross Throws in with the Union

7. Facing Artillery

8. The War for the Nations

9. Southern Refugees

10. Intervention

11. The Travails of General Blunt

12. Fort Gibson

13. The Rebellion Continued

14. The War Ends

15. Reconstruction in the Nations

16. Washington

Bibliography

Index

Author bio

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781940669687

1940669685

OCLC:

1244630589