Product Description

Inexperienced Union and Confederate soldiers in the West waged numerous bloody campaigns against the Indians during the Civil War. Fighting with a distinct geographical advantage, many tribes terrorized the territory from the Plains to the Pacific, as American pioneers moved west in greater numbers. These noteworthy--and notorious--Indian campaigns featured a fascinating cast of colorful characters, and were set against the wild, desolate, and untamed territories of the western United States. This is the first book to explore Indian conflicts that took place during the Civil War and documents both Union and Confederate encounters with hostile Indians blocking western expansion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #947950 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Beginning with the flight of the Creeks into Union territory pursued by Confederate forces (including many of Stand Watie's Cherokees), this popular history recounts grim, bloody, lesser-known events of the Civil War. Hatch (Clashes of the Cavalry) largely forgoes Confederate activities after that, but the book brings together some telling incidents nonetheless. Kit Carson, who fought Apaches and Navajos under the iron-fisted Colonel Carleton, arranged the Long Walk of the Navajos that made him infamous in Navajo history to this day. The North's "Captain" Woolsey, a volunteer soldier, became a brutal raider of the Apaches. General Sibley, a northerner and first Governor of Minnesota, oversaw the response to the Sioux Uprising of 1862 that left several hundred dead on either side. The slaughter of Black Kettle's Cheyennes at Sand Creek in 1864-by Colorado volunteers under Colonel Chivington, a militant abolitionist whose views on Indians were a great deal less charitable-forms a devastating chapter. Hatch, a veteran of several books on the Indian Wars that focus on George Armstrong Custer, has added to this clear and even-handed account a scholarly apparatus that adds considerably to its value.
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About the Author
Thom Hatch is the author of numerous works on the Civil War and American West history, including "Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn: An Encyclopedia" (0786409649), "Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and J. E. B. Stuart" (0811703568), and "The Custer Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to the Life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian Wars" (0811704777).