Looks at how the Civil War impacted Indian tribes in the Western United States from California to the Mississippi River. With a chapter dedicated to each year of the Civil War, this title examines almost everything from a prewar incident that sparked an Apache war in Arizona to the Navajo war in New Mexico that concluded in 1864.
A chronicling of the Indian wars fought between 1861 and 1865. While many know of the major events of the Civil War, few realize there were also Indian wars fought during that period of strife. This account covers those conflicts, from a prewar incident that sparked an Apache war in Arizona to the Navajo war in New Mexico, the Sioux uprising in Minnesota, and the struggle of the Plains Indians in Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Divided by chapters into the five years of the Civil War, this book reveals how the war impacted everyone in America, including Indians on the frontier.