The Blue, The Gray and The Red

by Thom Hatch

Overview

The Blue, the Gray, and the Red is the first book dedicated solely to chronicling the numerous campaigns waged against the Indians in the American West during the Civil War. In fact, more Indians were killed between 1861 and 1865 than in any other period in history. Some of the most noteworthy Indian Campaigns ever conducted, featuring a fascinating cast of larger than life characters, took place during these years.

Award-winning author Thom Hatch offers chronological narrative rich in details and full of new revelations of the bloody hostilities in the West. The Blue, the Gray, and the Red will appeal to all those interested in the Civil War and the Indian War in American history. It provides a thoroughly researched background of the conflicts and cross-references simultaneous battles and events in the eastern theater of the Civil War. The exhaustive documentation and analysis paired with the uniqueness of the subject will cast new light on this most turbulent period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684424542
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	01/28/2020
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Thom Hatch is a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and an award-winning American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars. He is the author of twelve books, including The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Custer Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to the Life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indians Wars, and Black Kettle: the Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War, for which he received the Spur Award for literary excellence from the Western Writers of America. Hatch lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 The Flight of Opothleyahola 1

2 Bear River Massacre 33

3 Sioux Uprising 61

4 Carleton, Carson, and the Apaches 91

5 Sibley, Sully, and the Sioux 121

6 The Navajo Long Walk 153

7 The Woolsey Expeditions 179

8 Northern and Southern Plains Vengeance 207

9 Blood Along Sand Creek 237

10 Total War 275

Bibliography 291

Index 305

Editorial Reviews

Beginning with the flight of the Creeks into Union territory pursued by Confederate forces (including many of Stand Watie's Cherokees), this popular history recounts grim, bloody, lesser-known events of the Civil War. Hatch (Clashes of the Cavalry) largely forgoes Confederate activities after that, but the book brings together some telling incidents nonetheless. Kit Carson, who fought Apaches and Navajos under the iron-fisted Colonel Carleton, arranged the Long Walk of the Navajos that made him infamous in Navajo history to this day. The North's "Captain" Woolsey, a volunteer soldier, became a brutal raider of the Apaches. General Sibley, a northerner and first Governor of Minnesota, oversaw the response to the Sioux Uprising of 1862 that left several hundred dead on either side. The slaughter of Black Kettle's Cheyennes at Sand Creek in 1864-by Colorado volunteers under Colonel Chivington, a militant abolitionist whose views on Indians were a great deal less charitable-forms a devastating chapter. Hatch, a veteran of several books on the Indian Wars that focus on George Armstrong Custer, has added to this clear and even-handed account a scholarly apparatus that adds considerably to its value. (Feb.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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