The Confederate Cherokees
Subtitle: John Drew's regiment of mounted rifles
By: W. Craig Gaines.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780807114889
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 1st.; Cherokee Indians -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; Indians of North America -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Indian.
Description: Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, historians have given little attention to the role Native Americans played in the conflict. Indian nations did, in fact, suffer a higher percentage of casualties than any Union or Confederate state, and the war almost destroyed the Cherokee Nation. In The Confederate Cherokees, W. Craig Gaines provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles. Gaines writes not only about the actions of Drew's Regiment but about military events in the Indian Territory in general. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172)
Table of contents: title: The neutral Cherokee Nation; title: Formation of the regiment; title: Organization and the Creek problem; title: In the Cooweescoowee District; title: Disgrace at Caving Banks; title: Licking their wounds; title: The Pea Ridge Campaign -  Furlough; title: Disaster; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix 1 : Muster roll of officers of Drew's Regiment on November 5, 1861; title: Appendix 2 : Muster roll of Drew's Regiment on November 5, 1861