The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes--the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole--during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe's magisterial Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War reveals the complexity and the importance of this war within a war, and explains how it affected the surrounding states in the Trans-Mississippi West and the course of the broader war engulfing the...
The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes--the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole--during America's Civil War is both fascinating and...
