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Sto caricando le informazioni... General Stand Watie's Confederate Indiansdi Frank Cunningham
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This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel. In 1864, after battling at Wilson?s Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier general. Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in surrender, two months after Appomattox. In his foreword, Brad Agnew discusses Watie?s role in the Civil War and his reception by later historians. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.25)
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However, as Brad Agnew mentions in the forward, Cunningham was far from an impartial observer. His inherent biases are front-and-center. Union soldiers are always described as cowardly and evil while Rebels are noble and brave. The flat-out racist language he uses when describing blacks and full-blood Indians (particularly the Cherokee) also makes this a difficult read in modern times.
There is a great opportunity to tell this story of an oft-forgotten part of the Civil War as an impartial historian. I'm looking forward to that some day. (