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Indian Territory, 1861-1865: The Forts, The Battles, The Soldiers
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Indian Territory, 1861-1865: The Forts, The Battles, The Soldiers - Ethel
Crisp Taylor.
In 1861, the area of present-day Oklahoma was known
as “Indian
Territory,” populated by Sovereign Nations. About 60,000 Choctaw, Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole Indians resided in the Territory with 1,500 white
men married to Indian women, and 10,000 Negro slaves. An estimated 2,500 Osage,
Caddo, Wichita, Shawnee, and Delaware were part of the Indian Territory population
and approximately 3,000 Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho were located
in the western part of Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, southeast Colorado and
southwest Kansas. Of these people, 8,000 plus served the Union in the three
Indian Home Guard Regiments and 15,000 plus served the Confederacy. Indian
Territory supplied a larger percentage of her population to the cause, second
only to Virginia, than any other Confederate state. Given the task of keeping
invading Federal armies out of Texas, Indian Territory suffered more destruction
and loss of civilian life than any state in the Confederacy. But the Indians
held the line; the Federals were never able to reach the Red River. Unlike
the rest of the Confederacy, the Indian troops became more successful after
July 1863. The majority of the Indian Division of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi
was still in the field and undefeated in June 1865. This book will bring to
light the names of many of the "nameless" soldiers who fought in
the Civil War. A number of the Confederate units’ rosters have been lost.
The remaining rosters have been used for this book. The three Union Indian
Home Guard Regiments are listed, as are the available lists of the Union pensions
that were applied for in 1871 at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation. This book grew
out of the research for previous books, Dust in the Wind: The Civil War in
Indian Territory and Shifting Winds of War: Indian Territory, 1861-1865. It
contains photos and information on the forts, maps, location of the battles
and the remaining rosters of both Confederate and Union troops. It also contains
the treaties between the Confederate States and the Indian Nations. 2010, 5½x8½,
paper, 622 pp.
T3398
ISBN: 0788433989
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