"How the Civil War Became the Indian Wars" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Jun 2018 1:10 p.m. PST |
"On Dec. 21, 1866, a year and a half after Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ostensibly closed the book on the Civil War's final chapter at Appomattox Court House, another soldier, Capt. William Fetterman, led cavalrymen from Fort Phil Kearny, a federal outpost in Wyoming, toward the base of the Big Horn range. The men planned to attack Indians who had reportedly been menacing local settlers. Instead, a group of Arapahos, Cheyennes and Lakotas, including a warrior named Crazy Horse, killed Fetterman and 80 of his men. It was the Army's worst defeat on the Plains to date. The Civil War was over, but the Indian wars were just beginning. These two conflicts, long segregated in history and memory, were in fact intertwined. They both grew out of the process of establishing an American empire in the West. In 1860, competing visions of expansion transformed the presidential election into a referendum. Members of the Republican Party hearkened back to Jefferson's dream of an "empire for liberty." The United States, they said, should move west, leaving slavery behind. This free soil platform stood opposite the splintered Democrats' insistence that slavery, unfettered by federal regulations, should be allowed to root itself in new soil. After Abraham Lincoln's narrow victory, Southern states seceded, taking their congressional delegations with them…"
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| Choctaw | 15 Jun 2018 2:13 p.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 15 Jun 2018 2:20 p.m. PST |
If you want a classic screw up read about the battle of Platte river bridges 1865 and the charge of Lt. Casper Collins. |
| donlowry | 16 Jun 2018 9:10 a.m. PST |
Actually, the U.S. was fighting the Indians during the Civil War -- that's what John Pope was doing after 2nd Bull Run. |
| Tango01 | 16 Jun 2018 12:35 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the recomendation…. Amicalement
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| EJNashIII | 24 Jun 2018 10:00 a.m. PST |
Your initial idea that "The Civil War was over, but the Indian wars were just beginning." is plain wrong. I suggest you read about the battle of Killdeer mountain, the largest Indian war battle which happened in 1864 or the Battle of the Badlands fought later in 64. link link |
| EJNashIII | 24 Jun 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
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