American Indian and the End of the Confederacy 1863-1866

Late in April 1861, President Lincoln ordered Federal troops to evacuate forts in Indian Territory. That left the Five Civilized TribesCherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminolesessentially under Confederate jurisdiction and control.The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 18631866, spans the closing years of the Civil War, when Southern fortunes were waning, and the immediate postwar period. Annie Heloise Abel shows the extreme vulnerability of the Indians caught between two warring sides. "The failure of the United States government to afford to the southern Indians the protection solemnly guaranteed by treaty stipulations had been the great cause of their entering into an alliance with The Confederacy, "she writes. Her classic book, originally published in 1925 as the third volume ofThe Slaveholding Indians, makes clear how the Indians became the victims of uprootedness and privation, pillaging, government mismanagement, and, finally, a deceptive treaty for reconstruction.Abel, Annie H. is the author of 'American Indian and the End of the Confederacy 1863-1866' with ISBN 9780803259218 and ISBN 0803259212.