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Cargando... BETWEEN TWO FIRES: American Indians in the Civil Warpor Laurence M. Hauptman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An excellent overview of Indian experiences in the Civil War, focusing on several tribes and individuals. Covers military experiences as well as home life, and broader effects on tribes. Some background on their histories before and after the war. Short, but detailed. ( ) Huaptman's topic is of strong interest, and he covers the obscure well. However, he does not go far enough. During the American Civil War, American Indian tribes participated--many for the Union, but most for the Confederacy. Huaptman divides his book into 3 major sections: the Trans-Mississippi West, the South, and the North. Across the Mississippi River, the Delaware contributed to the Union cause. The celebrated Cherokee Stand Waite has a chapter of his own and deservedly so. Waite was one of the last to surrender and the only Confederate General of a strong degree of American Indian blood. In the Southern section (the section I consider obscure and highly captivating), he covers the Pamunkey and Lumbee Unionist, the Catawba, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Disappointingly, he includes a small one paragraph mention of the 1st Choctaw Battalion out of Mississippi. Huaptman could have gone a little further with them. In fact, there is enough material about them for a whole book, so a chapter about them would have been an integral part of this book. In the last part, he investigates the Unionist roles of Northern tribes like the Ottawa, Ojibwa, Pequot, and Mohegan Indians. Ely S. Parker, the Seneca, was an interesting re-read as he is well known. Parker was on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant. Overall, he did an admirable job. I notice a number of discrepancies in the notes while doing my own research. On page 215, the letter from "John A. Davis to Major Memminger, April 12, 1863" ... The letter was actually from Brig. Gen. John Adams to Memminger. Also, on the same page, J. W. Pierce was the writer than a "J. N. Pierce." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The story of Indian participation on both sides during the American Civil War. Nine different tribal groups are featured and the author aims to show how and why the Indians, who were seeking legitimacy, autonomy and land, were decimated and dislocated in what was their last chance for co-existance. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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