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Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians

Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians

Waugh, John

Paperback

Series: Civil War Campaigns and Commanders

Civil War Period (1850-1877)General Military History

ISBN10: 1886661030
ISBN13: 9781886661035
Publisher: TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation
Published: Apr 4 1995
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
General Maxey, dignified, articulate, and confident, arrives in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. The troops are in disarray; they are suspicious of tribal alliances, weakened from malnutrition, their crops have been pillaged, and they are discouraged by a series of battlefield setbacks at the hands of the Union Army invading from Kansas. Maxey calls upon all of his leadership and administrative skills and his insight into Indian culture to win the confidence and loyalty of these soldiers. Desperately he fights to secure badly needed munitions and provisions from the Confederate bureaucracy, which is focused on the plight of its eastern armies. All the while he struggles with his own field commander, the able and ambitious Douglas Cooper, friend of Jefferson Davis, who is eager to supplant him. Yet, Maxey perseveres and succeeds in molding this army without infantry into an effective fighting force that plays an important role in the Red River and Arkansas Campaigns and ultimately helps prevent a Union invasion of north Texas. A little known story, dramatically told by a distinguished author.

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