To: stainlessbanner
Thanks! I just read an excellent book about the War in North Carolina, "Bushwhackers!" by William R. Trotter. His main source on the Cherokees' participation was "Storm in the Mountains," by Vernon H. Crow (reference-only in my library system, unfortunately!).
Trotter suggests that the Eastern Band participated on the Confederate side almost entirely because it was the policy of their Chief, "Little Will" Thomas, who was, oddly enough, white. Until things got personal with the guerilla fighting and atrocities in Western NC, the Cherokees seem to have fought largely because it was the only fight available!
It's an interesting situation, very different from that of the tribes resettled in Oklahoma, and a reminder that generalizing about "Indians" is just as historically worthless as generalizing about "whites" or "blacks."
25 posted on
01/07/2004 7:44:33 AM PST by
Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
"I just read an excellent book about the War in North Carolina, "Bushwhackers!" Well, I'll be! Who'd have thought that Bush was even responsible for that war? < /sarcasm >
98 posted on
01/07/2004 12:18:05 PM PST by
sweetliberty
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