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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3 | The History Cooperative
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Book Review


The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. By Clarissa W. Confer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 199 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3803-9.)
American Indian involvement in the Civil War has undergone only one thorough study. Laurence Hauptman's Between Two Fires (1995) touches on a wide variety of roles American Indians played in the war. Clarissa W. Confer's work on the Cherokee nation during the war is more focused. She achieves her goal of demonstrating the suffering and long-term detriment to the nation through division, displacement, and death. The first detailed study of the Cherokee nation from 1861–1865 offers much insight into the tumult caused by the Civil War. Readers desiring to learn more about the Cherokee nation's experiences during the war will be pleased. However, Civil War historians wishing to ascertain more about the impact of the conflict in Indian Territory or the Cherokee nation's overall influence on the war will not find satisfaction. That work is still waiting to be written. . . .
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