Native Americans and the Civil War split from How Should the Confederacy be Remembered?

I'm going off topic a bit but in reference to, "Bitterly Divided the Souths inner Civil War."

...that's a mark against it already.

I'm not sure I understood that, 19thGeorgia. But it looks like you are saying there was not division in the south, or if there was some division it was not bitter?

I have both Union and Confederate ancestors. And they all hail from the Appalachian region of western North Carolina. There was definitely division in that region and it was bitter at times.

Even today, when I try to place myself in that time and I can't say for sure which way I would go. I'm astraddle the line and leaning Confederate but it's impossible to say for sure how I would have felt had I lived then. I'm a bit of a Confederate sympathizer but I respect my Union ancestors.
 
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In the 1700s there were punitive expeditions against the Cherokee that burned a lot of corn fields.

Yes, and there was Washington's expedition against the Iroquois in the Hudson Valley - burned out all their orchards and ran off all the deer in order to push them into Canada. His Iroquois name was Town Killer. Starving people are usually very cooperative people!
 
I think the reasons that the CSA didn´t do the same damage to the natives, or at least not in the quantity, as the USA can be summed up in three points:

1. Kind of busy right now!
2. No massive civil westward expansion yet!
3. No time, as simple as that!

Is it possible that, once those perfidious Yankees had been beaten, a more peaceful way of co-existence would be found? Yes. Is it likely that this would have worked out fine? I´m afraid not. Those would have been the same people as before, just with another flag, occupying the same locations as before, expanding in more or less the same direction as before. Is it possible that the South would have just created another Trail of Tears directed northwards to make it their problem instead? Sure, why not?

In the end, considering the fact that those were the same people and the issue of slavery as background, we can´t really assume that the CSA (as a whole) had the moral high ground here either, can we? Not that anybody had one in that affair ...

And to sum it up even more: We don´t know what would have happened and never will!
 
Not entirely quiet. The Dakota War of 1862 comes to mind....

Oh, not quiet at all. The removal of the Regulars intensified the white-Indian conflicts everywhere. Sand Creek and Canyon de Chelly come to mind, and John Pope had been sent west to get him out from under foot...and he managed to kick the whole Plains into a prairie fire. Jackson was right - that guy didn't know his headquarters from his hindquarters.
 
Prior to the California column heading into Arizona, Union supplies and forage were staged along the Butterfield stage line. The Confederates confiscated the supplies and burned the hay. They then gave the Maricopa indians the confiscated supplies as a gesture towards alignment with the Confederacy. When the California column arrived and found all their supplies were gone the Maricopa sold it back to them. The kicker was that the Maricopans' wouldn't take money. They wanted cloth. A telegram had to be sent back East and a load of cloth sent.
 
Perhaps you should check out what JEB Stuart was up to before the Civil War…..

Yep, the Greatest Cavalryman Ever Foaled On American Soil began active service with the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen in Texas. He was involved in a skirmishes with the Comanche and was wounded in a skirmish against the Cheyenne.
 
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This is a thread about Native Americans in the ACW, NOT mid 20th century segregation.

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