Indian cavalry

Indian cavalry is the name collectively given (for lack of a better one) to the American Indians who fought from horseback during the American civil war, most of them for the South.

Related Topics:
American Indians - American civil war - South

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The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and a few others took part in the war. Before the war very few of the Indians of these tribes manifested any interest in the question of slavery because only a small number owned slaves. Slavery among them was not regarded as it was among the whites, for in many instances Indian-owned slaves acted as if they were equal to their masters. But the above-named tribes occupied valuable territory, and the Confederate authorities lost no time in sending agents among them to win them over.

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Cherokee - Creek - Choctaw - Chickasaw - Seminole - Slavery - Whites - Confederate

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