christof139
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Books on the subject: 1) General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians, by Frank Cunningham. 2) The Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units, and the Indian Units, by Stewart Sifakis. 3) The American Indian in the Civil War, by Annie Heloise Abel. 4) Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians, by John C. Waugh. 5) Civil War in the Indian Territory, by Steve Cottrell. 6) Civil War on the Western Border, 1854 - 1865, by Jay Monaghan. 7) The Civil War on the Border, Volume I 1861 - 1862, and Volume II 1863 - 1865, by Wiley Britton, very, very detailed, some maps, about 1,000 pages combined, official reports from both sides, and Wiley was a participant in the US Army in that region for the entire war. 8) Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion, by W.S. Bruce. 9) Kansas in the Sixties, by Samuel J. Crawford, a participant in the US Army at Wilson's Creek, Prarie Grove, Westport or Big and Little Blue Rivers in 1864 during Sterling Price's invasion of Missouri and Kansas, etc., and later with the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry with Custer during the Indian Campaign of 1868 - 1869. 10) Rebel Invasion of Missouri and Kansas and the Campaign of the Army of the Border Against General Sterling Price in October and November 1864, by Richard J. Hinton, but not much here on the Indians of both sides whom didn't directly participate as they were engaged in Indian Territory. 11) Confederate Cavalry West of the River, by Stephen B. Oates, a great ACW historian for the Trans Miss. and he has written another book or so. 12) The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War, again by Wiley Britton. 13) The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil war, by Michael J. Forsyth. Confed. Indians of Walker's Chickasaw and Choctaw Bde. of Maxey's Division were at Posion Springs but not Mark's Mill. 14) Several books on Texas Cav. units such as Parson's, the 1st, 3rd and 9th Texas Cavalries, etc. 15) Last but not least, Kirby Smith's Confederacy, the Trans-Mississippi South, 1863 - 1865, by Robert l. Kirby, the bible on the Trans Miss. more or less. 16) There are many more books on the subject. Many links are on the inet.. Chris
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