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The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

Confer, Clarissa W.

Paperback

Native American HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0806142677
ISBN13: 9780806142678
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jan 5 2012
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the Union as well as the Confederacy and created their own brothers' war.

This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokees--a social history of a people plunged into crisis. The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War shows how the Cherokee people, who had only just begun to recover from the ordeal of removal, faced an equally devastating upheaval in the Civil War. Clarissa W. Confer illustrates how the Cherokee Nation, with its sovereign status and distinct culture, had a wartime experience unlike that of any other group of people--and suffered perhaps the greatest losses of land, population, and sovereignty.

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