The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

The Indian alliance, so assiduously sought by the Southern Confederacy and so laboriously built up, soon revealed itself to be most unstable. Direct and unmistakable signs of its instability appeared in connection with the first real military test to which it was subjected Read more....

• The Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn and its more Immediate Effects
  • Pike's Great Purpose
• Lane's Brigade and the Inception of the Indian
  • Map Showing the Main Theatre of Border Warfare and the Location of Tribes Within the Indian Country
  • The Battle of Wilson's Creek
  • Lane Utilizes the Indians
  • Hunter Appointed to Command the Department of Kansas
• The Indian Refugees in Southern Kansas
• The Organization of the First Indian Expedition
  • Reestablishment of the Department of Kansas
• The March to Tahlequah and the Retrograde Movement of the "White Auxiliary"
  • Indian Affairs outlined a Policy Exceedingly Liberal
• General Pike in Controversy with General Hindman
  • General Hindman as Pike's Superior Officer
• Organization of the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency
• The Retirement of General Pike
• The Removal of the Refugees to the Sac and Fox Agency
• Negotiations with Union Indians
  • Better Success with the Kickapoo
• Indian Territory in 1863, January to March
  • Monthly Inspection Report of the Second Creek Regiment of Mounted Volunteers
• Indian Territory in 1863, March to July
• Indian Territory in 1863, July to August
• Indian Territory in 1863, August to December
• Aspects, Chiefly Military, 1864-1865
• Maxey's Reconstruction Among Southern Indians
• Appendix, Letter from Albert Pike

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The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War, 1919

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