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Originally Posted by br4sco
u have to explain nothing, 31 years isnt much in between, let me ask u one more time. why would the indians help the rebels if they were the ones who caused them leave their land? does that make sense to you ?
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Man I am pissed. I prepared a long detailed response and GFY went and refreshed the page on me, deleting everything.
Rebels - Confederacy
Yankees - Union
No Confederacy at time of Trail of Tears
Indians been fighting Union long before they were called Yankees
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/nativeamericans.htm
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Statistics show that just under 3,600 Native Americans served in the Union Army during the war. Perhaps the best known of their number was Colonel Ely Parker, who served as an aide to General U. S. Grant, and was present at Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Statistics for the Confederacy are not reliably available, but most scholars of Native American involvement in the actual fighting of the war are very well acquainted with the major Southern figure among them: Brigadier General Chief Stand Watie, a three-quarter blood Cherokee who was born in December 1806 near what would become Rome, Georgia. Stand Watie was one of the signers of a treaty that agreed to the removal of the Cherokee from their home in Georgia to what was then the Oklahoma territory; this split the tribes into two factions, and Stand Watie became the leader of the minority party.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, the minority party gave its allegiance to the Confederacy, while the majority party went for the North.
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http://www.historynet.com/american-i...the-crater.htm
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More than 20,000 American Indians fought in the Civil War for both the Union and the Confederacy. Probably the best known were the Cherokee soldiers of General Stand Watie, who sided with the South in the Trans-Mississippi West. But the men Bowley saw were mostly Chippewas and Ottawas from Company K of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, the largest unit of American Indians serving with the Union armies east of the Mississippi River.
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Again, sue the school district.