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.

Native American Indian units in the Armed forces of the Confederate States of America

Cherokee Nation

• First Cherokee Mounted Rifles First Colonel: Stand Watie (later Brig. General)

Second Colonel: James M. Bell.

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• First Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Volunteers First Colonel: John Drew
• Second Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Volunteers First Colonel, William Adair
• Cherokee Regiment CSA
• Third Cherokee Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry
• First Cherokee Battalion of Partisan Rangers
• First Squadron of Cherokee Mounted Volunteers
• Cherokee Special Services Battalion
• Scales' Battalion of Cherokee Cavalry
• Meyer's Battalion of Cherokee Cavalry
• Cherokee Battalion of Infantry
• Second Cherokee Artillery

Creek Nation

• First Regiment Creek Mounted Volunteers
• Second Regiment Creek Mounted Volunteers
• First Battalion Creek Confederate Cavalry

Seminole Nation

• First Battalion Seminole Mounted Volunteers
• First Regiment Seminole Mounted Volunteers

Chickasaw Nation

• First Regiment of Chickasaw Infantry
• First Regiment of Chickasaw Cavalry First Colonel: William L. Hunter
• First Battalion of Chickasaw Cavalry
• Shecoe's Chickasaw Battalion of Mounted Volunteers

Choctaw Nation

• First Regiment Choctaw & Chickasaw Mounted Rifles
• First Regiment of Choctaw Mounted Rifles
• Deneale's Regiment of Choctaw Warriors
• Second Regiment of Choctaw Cavalry
• Third Regiment of Choctaw Cavalry
• Folsom's Battalion of Choctaw Mounted Rifles
• Capt. John Wilkin's Company of Choctaw Infantry
• Northwest Frontier Command of Indian Territory

Oage Cavalry Battalion

First Commander: Major Broken Arm

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