Rebel Warriors
Mar 29, 2022
4 minutes
Interview by Sarah Richardson
To piece together a history of the Choctaw Nation’s surprising Civil War alliance with the Confederacy, cemented by a treaty in 1861, Fay A. Yarbrough meticulously sifted through archives at the Oklahoma Historical Society and the University of Oklahoma. The exhaustive effort led to her book Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country (UNC Press, 2021), which describes the culture of the Choctaw, the interests they shared with Confederates, and why they supported the South rather than the Union. Roughly 3,000 Choctaw filled the Choctaw Mounted Rifles’ ranks; 100 would die in service.
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