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The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863-1866 (Civil War)

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I borrowed this book from a research library to gather information about the end of the Civil War and its aftermath on the Native American nations involved. I didn't get too far into the book before losing interest and getting agitated by the sheer amount of "fluff" added to each sentence. If there is a longer way to get to a point I'm not sure what it would have been.

For example, the second sentence of the book states, "From first to last military conditions and events determined political and it is certainly no exaggeration to say that had a time ever come after the opening twelvemonth of war when the Federals could have shown themselves in unquestioned possession of the Indian country the treaties with the South would, one and all, have been immediately abrogated even by such initial and arch offenders as the Choctaws and Chickasaws who, alone of all the slave-holding tribes, had attached themselves, originally and in a national way, to the Secessionists because of a frankly avowed sympathy with the "peculiar institution."

I give this book a 3-star rating because I'm sure it has wonderful information hidden somewhere under the architectural narrative.