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    INDIAN WARS

    Mar 26, 2019 3 minutes

    READ WITH GREAT INTEREST Professor Gallagher’s incisive argument in the April issue for separating the war to preserve the Union from the Indian Wars on the frontier. The Confederacy faced a similar situation. Texas was the only Southern state with an active Indian frontier. When the U.S. Army evacuated military posts in 1861, the defense of Texas’ Western frontier theoretically fell to the Confederacy, but it never supplied sufficient manpower

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