Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865

The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes — the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole — during America’s Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861—1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe’s magisterial Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War reveals the complexity and the importance of this war within a war, and explains...