Choctaw Confederates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choctaw Confederates write by Fay A. Yarbrough. This book was released on 2021-10-22. Choctaw Confederates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and deemed any criticism of it or its army treasonous and punishable by death. Choctaws also raised an infantry force and a cavalry to fight alongside Confederate forces. In Choctaw Confederates, Fay A. Yarbrough reveals that, while sovereignty and states' rights mattered to Choctaw leaders, the survival of slavery also determined the Nation's support of the Confederacy. Mining service records for approximately 3,000 members of the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, Yarbrough examines the experiences of Choctaw soldiers and notes that although their enthusiasm waned as the war persisted, military service allowed them to embrace traditional masculine roles that were disappearing in a changing political and economic landscape. By drawing parallels between the Choctaw Nation and the Confederate states, Yarbrough looks beyond the traditional binary of the Union and Confederacy and reconsiders the historical relationship between Native populations and slavery.
General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians
General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians write by Frank Cunningham. This book was released on 1998. General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A life of the general
The Life of General Stand Watie
The Life of General Stand Watie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of General Stand Watie write by Mabel Washbourne Anderson. This book was released on 1931. The Life of General Stand Watie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Watie was the highest ranked Native American in the Confederate army and renowned for his leardership in the Battle of Pea Ridge and other battles. He also was the last Confederate general to surrender, three months after Lee at Appomattox. After the Civil War, Watie served as the chief of the Southern Cherokees until his death in 1871. This edition is much enlarged over the first printing of 1915, with new material on Watie's death and tributes to him and biographies of other prominent Cherokees, including John Rollins Ridge (Yellow Bird), poet and writer who moved to California and wrote a book on bandit Joaquin Murieta. The author was the granddaughter of John Ridge, the Treaty Party leader, and the grand-niece of Watie. In her research she consulted with a number of veterans who had served under him.
Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Two Fires write by Laurence M. Hauptman. This book was released on 1996. Between Two Fires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tragic historic story of the destruction of Native American peoples as a result of the Civil War, including their own service in both the Union and Confederate armies.
General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians
General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians write by Frank Cunningham. This book was released on 2016-01-18. General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel. In 1864, after battling at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier general. Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in surrender, two months after Appomattox. “Frank Cunningham tells with all its gusto, hard riding, triumph, and heartbreak, the story of Stand Watie’s Cherokee Brigade that fought mightily in Missouri, Arkansas, and the present Oklahoma, under Generals Sterling Price, Thomas C. Hindman, Kirby Smith, and other commanders of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and when no superior officer was available, then pell mell and uncompromisingly on its own.”—North Carolina Historical Review “A graphic and authentic account of General Stand Watie and his Indian troops....[It] fills a long-neglected gap in the Civil War annals.”—Civil War History
